not for nothing Ayumu Sasaki is nicknamed ‘Crazy Boy’. With the promotion of the first three classifieds from the last Moto3 World Championship to Moto2, he remained fourth in contention as the top favorite for the 2023 title. He had long pace, but later in the race he lacked regularity and the two zeros he already signed are in the ninth place of the general. But Sasaki was again unbeaten in Moto3 at Le Mans and was ahead of the two boys currently leading the championship, Moreira, classified second, and Holgado, classified first, who returned their Times credit after a technical problem
The first reference was set by the winner of the two races before arriving at Le Mans, Iván Ortolá, a time answered by more than two tenths of Oncu in the same second lap. The Turk was replaced in this first outing by the Brazilian Moreira and then the Japanese Sasaki and all with a margin that still dropped from 1’42” and even the 1’41″846 established by Masiá in free practice in the same conditions. In the first round Sasaki, Holgado and Moreira had the provisional front row and Masiá, the winner of the 2022 race with KTM and the 2020 polesitter with Honda, was eighth.
In the second round they had two laps to go and the first to settle was ‘Crazy Boy’ Sasaki himself, who found a place to ride alone and set a 1’41″630 that was unbeatable for the others. The two riders leading the World Championship, Diogo Moreira and Daniel Holgado, the leader, completed the first row of the grid after their times were returned due to a timing error. The man from Alicante, for the first time at the front row, has a 4 point advantage over the Brazilian and 9 over Ortolá, before this Sunday’s race.
As for the rest of the Spaniards, Iván Ortolá will start in fifth, Jaume Masiá sixth, Xavi Artigas eighth, José Antonio Rueda tenth, David Salvador 15th, David Alonso 25th who just finished on the podium in Jerez and -27 and last Ana Carrasco after a yellow flag canceled the lap that gave her 19th position.
Source: La Verdad
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