Veijer passed Alonso for pole at the Sachsenring where penalties rained down

The Dutch Colin Veijer who had just returned as a hero to his home in Assen, vindicated himself a week later and signed his first pole of the year, the third in Moto3 and put 0.336 on the leader of the World Championship David Alonso with the Italian from Paolo Simoncelli’s team, Luca Lunetta, closing the front row.

Race Direction has run out of patience with them and 16 drivers have been sanctioned or cautioned for running deliberately slow in previous weekend sessions, including the winner at Assen Ivan Ortola who had to complete a long lap in the race or Stefano Nepa who took Practice 1.

For three of them, as the first time, it was a warning, but for others like Farioli, Bertelle, Whatley and Pratense rookie Joel Esteban has been the fifth and they leave the pitlane. But the hassle when it comes to going through that area next to turn 13 where some will have a long lap to complete in three laps – four – and others will have a double long lap to complete in five – another five – has been resolved this Sunday.

Two of the three practice sessions were signed up by Adrián ‘Pitito’ Fernández, the younger brother of MotoGP rider Raúl Fernández who just finished third on the grid in the star category. But riding alone, the Dutchman Collin Veijer has already put in a 1’25.385 at the front, beating the previous best time of leader David Alonso by 71 thousandths, the two strong men of the championship.

Pitito passed the provisional pole of the 1000th in 3’24” in the new attempt of the 20-year-old from Madrid to block the descent, and they touched at 150 km/h, the attempt of J.Osé Antonio Rueda which temporarily rose to third place. The reaction of David Alonso His teammate Esteban’s tire allowed him to take the lead with 1’25″221 but it was Dutchman Veijer who ended up breaking the absolute record with 1’24″885.

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