Three of the great favorites for back-to-back champions Jaume Masia, Ivan Ortolá, Dani Holgado and José Antonio Rueda, shared three practices of the Moto3 Qatar Grand Prix and the one who was pointed out as the great favorite for the title, the Colombian Hispanic David Alonso, has not yet appeared, but he had to hit a big stick in Friday’s P1 didn’t work with his winning plan. In the end the pole went to Dani Holgado, his third and second in a row in Qatar and Ortolá and Rueda will join him on the front line.
Ivan Ortola, and his KTM’s brake protector, flew 10 minutes from the end of Q2, closing the lap in 2’02″541, breaking by a second and a half the record for pole and best Moto3 lap at Lusail held by Darryn Binder from 2021. The new softer Pirelli compound, which replaces Dunlop, and the latest KTM evolution, which debuted this year after losing the crown in 2023 to Honda, worked their magic. That period is almost directly reach their rivals.
But it does not frighten a believer Dani Holgado And he took many risks to pass rookie Ángel Piqueras. The slipstream of the group led him to close the lap in 2’02″276. Iván Ortolá and José Antonio Rueda will complete the front row and David Alonso, second in the 2023 race after champion Masiá, will start from eighth.
Q2 Moto3 classification
Source: La Verdad
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