Dani Holgado added a third at Mugello and is more than a leader

The pilot of Sant Vicente del Raspeig to Dani HolgadoHe continues to show why after the first quarter of the championship he is the big favorite to replace Izan Guevara on the list of Moto3 champions. He aborted his KTM partner’s breakaway Deniz Oncu, the favorite for speed, and on the last lap he read the end of the race well, stopping Sasaki first at the chicane and taking advantage of the Turkish motorcycle’s slipstream to take his third victory of the year at Mugello by 51 thousandths of a second to Oncu, who has not yet opened a record, and 56 thousandths to the Japanese, followed by rookie David Alonso and Jaume Masiá who finished second in the World Cup. Holgado now leads by 35 points, two races ago at Le Mans he was leading by just 4 points.

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With eight riders penalized for going to the bottom of the grid, among them Ortolá, Moreira or Artigas, who added one or two long laps to the race for crossing the line in Practice, many riders with podium options did not in position. The favorites like Deniz Oncu, the best of the weekend since P1, the leader Dani Holgado, Ayumu Sasaki or Jaume Masià have been eliminated, but they should not slow down the pace and let them reach the top.

From pole position, the Turk from Red Bull KTM kept the initiative against Holgado and Sasaki, the first changes of direction in the lead were very clean. One of Holgado’s goals was for his Turkish factory teammate not to give him big gaps at the start after the speed he showed all weekend, half a second per lap faster than the others. And in the second round, the Spaniard and Japanese dropped the anchor with Masiá quickly joining in to try to abort any escape from the great favourite.

A quintet including Oncu, Sasaki, Masiá, Alonso and Holgado had established itself in the lead from the fifth lap and more than six seconds before the tenth lap in the chasing group of 11 drivers led by the penalized Ortolá and Moreira . Five minutes from the end, Oncu tried to give another jab that Holgado dropped with an ax and he had to open up to keep himself from getting caught.

Race resolution was left for the last turn after receiving five ‘warnings’ from Race Direction. Sasaki started the final turn in the lead which was relieved by Holgado and Oncu who was in Arrabiatas. The Turkish’s three tenths seemed definitive to add his first victory in Moto3, but the good place to win was with Holgado and the slipstream allowed him to take the victory by 51 thousandths, closing Sasaki on the podium and leaving David Alonso and Jaume Masiá.

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Regarding the rest of the Spaniards, the eleventh Iván Ortolá, the 14th José Antonio Rueda, the 18th David Salvador and the 22nd Ana Carrasco. Vicente Pérez retired with technical problems on the ninth lap and Xavi Artigas fell on the second lap.

Race Moto3 Classification