The Colombian David Alonso (CFMoto), Moto3 world champion in 2024, dominated the first day of training Thai Grand Prix category at the Buriram circuit, without breaking the record he had achieved earlier in the morning.
Alonso set a best time of 1:40.703that stayed just under two tenths of a second off the absolute record which he set in Thai morning at 1:40.544.
The first official round of Moto3 has started with a very high challenge to achieve, as in the morning free session world champion David Alonso has already set the ‘bar’ very high by riding up to three times below of the previous circuit record and establish a new reference with 1:40.544, so the first reference is set, one second, David Muñoz (KTM), lapping in 1:41.595.
The Dutch Colin Veijer (Husqvarna) was the next reference, although it slightly reduced Muñoz’s record by 19 thousandths of a second to run 1:41.576, with track conditions that, a priori, should have improved with the passing of all of motorcycles in the morning sessions, both in surface cleanliness and adhesion.
Entering the second part of the session, less than fifteen minutes were left, when David Alonso began to push hard to try to ride at the same pace as in the morning, when he was the only one under one. minutes and 41 seconds (1:40.544).
Alonso, who? accumulating 11 victories throughout the season, with 12 podiums and six best practice classifications, He crashed again, just like the morning before, this time at twelve o’clock when he blocked the rear brake and went over the bike.
Luck is being twelve, David Alonso went straight to his workshop to quickly repair the damage caused by the motorcyclewhich was minimal as it was a very clean ‘slide’ on the asphalt.
And, while David Alonso entered his workshop, the Dutchman Veijer left him to start the second ‘run’ or second outing on the track, where he ‘scratched’ a few tenths from his best that lap time at 1:41.290, followed. of the trio of Spaniards formed by David Muñoz (KTM), Iván Ortolá (KTM) and Adrián Fernández (Honda).
Elsewhere on the circuit, both Australian Joel Kelso (KTM) like the Spanish Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas) were running partials below the best time in the first two, but in the third, track traffic slowed them down, although in the final The Spaniard once again posted the fastest time in 1:41.27but in reality that is the beginning of the ‘time attack’ of many pilots.
Among them, the 2024 world champion, David Alonso, who recovered from a fall and repaired his motorcycle, He returned to the track and the first reference was 1:41.048, which dropped to 41 seconds later, exceeded 1:40.723, he was still about two tenths off his morning record.
David Alonso still had time to complete another lap, stopping the clock in 1:40.703 to be fastest of the day, followed by Joel Kelso, Adrián Fernández, Daniel Holgado, Collin Veijer, Luca Lunetta, Iván Ortolá, David Almansa, José Antonio Rueda, Ángel Piqueras, David Muñoz, Riccardo Rossi, Scott Ogden and Ryusei Yamanaka.
Source: La Verdad
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