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 Pink 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 prime three.
Honda Workforce 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 have 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 dwelling glory however he rallied to ninth. SIC58’s Filippo Farioli was tenth.
Rueda went from the excessive of dwelling 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 have been the opposite fallers within the incident.
Moto3 San Marino GP – Race outcomes
| 1 |
Á. Piqueras Leopard Racing |
36 | Honda | 20 | 148.9 | 25 | ||||
| 2 | D. Holgado Pink Bull GASGAS Tech3 | 96 | GASGAS | 20 | 0.035 | 148.9 | 20 | |||
| 3 |
I. Ortola MT Helmets – MSI |
48 | KTM | 20 | 0.191 | 148.9 | 16 | |||
| 4 |  T. Furusato Honda Workforce Asia |
72 | Honda | 20 | 0.033 | 148.9 | 13 | |||
| 5 |
C. Veijer Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP |
95 | Husqvarna | 20 | 0.232 | 148.9 | 11 | |||
| 6 |  J. Kelso BOE Motorsports |
66 | KTM | 20 | 0.486 | 148.8 | 10 | |||
| 7 |
D. Alonso CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Workforce |
80 | CF MOTO | 20 | 148.9 | 9 | ||||
| 8 | T. Suzuki Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP |
24 | Husqvarna | 20 | 3.160 | 148.6 | 8 | |||
| 9 |
L. Lunetta SIC58 Squadra Corse |
58 | Honda | 20 | 3.033 | 148.4 | 7 | |||
| 10 |
F. Farioli SIC58 Squadra Corse |
7 | Honda | 20 | 1.299 | 148.3 | 6 | |||
| 11 |
D. Almansa Kopron Rivacold Snipers Workforce |
22 | Honda | 20 | 0.034 | 148.3 | 5 | |||
| 12 |
J. Roulstone Pink Bull GASGAS Tech3 |
12 | GASGAS | 20 | 0.278 | 148.3 | 4 | |||
| 13 |  A. Fernandez Leopard Racing |
31 | Honda | 20 | 0.966 | 148.2 | 3 | |||
| 14 |  S. Nepa LEVELUP – MTA |
82 | KTM | 20 | 0.545 | 148.2 | 2 | |||
| 15 |  S. Ogden FleetSafe Honda – MLav Racing |
19 | Honda | 20 | 1.156 | 148.1 | 1 | |||
| 16 |
N. Fabio LEVELUP – MTA |
10 | KTM | 20 | 6.055 | 147.7 | ||||
| 17 | R. Yamanaka MT Helmets – MSI |
6 | KTM | 20 | 13.362 | 146.7 | ||||
| 18 |
X. Zurutuza Pink Bull KTM Manufacturing unit Racing |
85 | KTM | 20 | 1.557 | 146.6 | ||||
| 19 |
J. Rosenthaler Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP |
34 | Husqvarna | 20 | 0.097 | 146.6 | ||||
| 20 |
N. Dettwiler CIP |
55 | KTM | 20 | 5.942 | 146.2 | ||||
| 21 |
T. Buasri Honda Workforce Asia |
5 | Honda | 20 | 0.068 | 146.2 | ||||
| 22 |
J. Esteban CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Workforce |
78 | CF MOTO | 20 | 5.812 | 145.8 | ||||
| dnf | M. Bertelle Kopron Rivacold Snipers Workforce |
18 | Honda | 16 | 4 Laps | 148.7 | Accident | |||
| dnf |  V. Pérez FleetSafe Honda – MLav Racing |
21 | Honda | 16 | 4.295 | 148.3 | Accident | |||
| dnf |
J. Antonio Pink Bull KTM Manufacturing unit Racing |
99 | KTM | 0 | Accident | |||||
| dnf | D. Munoz BOE Motorsports |
64 | KTM | 0 | Accident | |||||
| dnf | R. Rossi CIP |
54 | KTM | 0 | Accident |
Ai Ogura, MT Helmets MSI
Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Pictures
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 because of this, as Aragon GP winner CFMOTO Aspar’s Jake Dixon capped the highest 5.
One other MotoGP class conscript for subsequent 12 months, Sync SpeedUp’s Fermin Aldeguer, erased a number of 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 battle 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 acquired 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 stop 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 prime of the standings.
