MotoGP San Marino GP: Moto2 and Moto3 results

Leopard Honda’s Angel Piqueras competed a outstanding Moto3 win at Misano within the San Marino Grand Prix.

For the second event in every week a Spanish teenager walked the highest step of the rostrum for the primary time, following KTM Ajo’s Jose Antonio Rueda’s success in Aragon final Sunday.

The 17-year-old needed to negotiate two Lengthy Lap penalties after a collision with Britain’s Scott Ogden on Saturday and charged again from the deficit to defeat GASGAS Tech3’s Daniel Holgado by 0.035s – the closest ever race end at Misano.

The triumph signified the primary win for the 2023 Purple Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup champion in his debut Moto3 time period after a gripping race between 5 riders on the entrance and frequent overtaking.

Holgado was runner-up for his sixth podium end of the season and rose to second within the championship standings as a consequence. MT Helmet-MSI’s Ivan Ortola was the primary KTM rider within the classification and rounded out an all-Spanish high three.

Honda Group Asia’s Taiyo Furosato took his Honda to fourth and the Japanese’s contact with world championship chief David Alonso on the final lap of twenty-two dropped the Columbian to sixth; later the CFMOTO Aspar man was demoted to seventh after a observe limits infringement on the identical circulation. Alonso’s championship lead has been trimmed to 70 factors

Australian Joel Kelso was subsequently pushed as much as sixth on the BOE KTM. Husqvarna IntactGP’s Tatsuki Suzuki rode from twenty third on the grid to complete eighth.

Honda riders Luca Lunetta and Adrian Fernandez had been each adjudged to have jumped the beginning and needed to serve two Lengthy Lap penalties. Lunetta had certified on the entrance row and the sanction snuffed out hopes of residence glory however he rallied to ninth. SIC58’s Filippo Farioli was tenth.

Rueda went from the excessive of residence grand prix spoils to the low of a second nook crash as his race lasted all of some seconds, whereas BOE Motorsports’ David Munoz and CIP Inexperienced Energy’s Ricardo Rossi had been the opposite fallers within the incident.

Moto3 San Marino GP – Race outcomes

Ai Ogura, MT Helmets MSI

Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Photographs

Moto2 was aced by MT Helmets -MSI’s Ai Ogura, because the MotoGP-bound Japanese rider beat Fantic Racing’s Aron Canet and Marc VDS’ Tony Arbolino for his third victory of the marketing campaign.

KTM Ajo’s Celestino Vietti tumbled out of rivalry for victory from fourth with three laps to go at Flip 16.

QJMotor Gresini’s Manuel Gonzalez rode to a lonely fourth in consequence, as Aragon GP winner CFMOTO Aspar’s Jake Dixon capped the highest 5.

One other MotoGP class conscript for subsequent yr, Sync SpeedUp’s Fermin Aldeguer, erased among the disappointment of his crash at Aragon final weekend with sixth place.

Arbolino’s team-mate, Filip Salac took seventh and headed the four-way struggle between Italtrans Racing’s Diogo Morira, QJMotor Gresini’s Albert Arenas and IntactGP Husqvarna’s Darryn Binder in tenth.

SpeedUp Racing’s Alonso Lopez crashed on lap two and later obtained a Lengthy Lap penalty for exceeding observe limits.

Sergio Garcia made an emotional cost from twenty fourth on the grid to twelfth however was unable to forestall Ogura from taking the Moto2 championship lead, the Spaniard in tears after the race, whereas the Japanese rider is now 9 factors forward of his MT Helmets – MSi team-mate on the high of the standings.

Moto2 San Marino GP – Race outcomes