Ayumu Sasaki beat his compatriot Tatsuki Suzuki in the final seconds to take pole position for the Moto3 Dutch GP. Izan Guevara closes the front row, while Sergio García is 18th.
Japanese Ayumu Sasaki will start from pole position for the Moto3 Dutch GP. In the session held on Saturday morning (25), the MAX rider clocked 1min41s296 to beat compatriot Tatsuki Suzuki, of Leopard, and start on pole for the first time in 2022. The last time he started from the position of honor was in Germany in 2019.
Second in the championship, Spaniard Izan Guevara closes the front row with Aspar. David Muñoz is fourth, followed by Dennis Foggia and Jaume Masià, who form the second row.
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Adrian Fernández, Lorenzo Fellon, Xavier Artigas and Joel Kelso round out the top-10. Championship leader Sergio García had a poor Q2 and will start in Assen from only 18th place. Brazilian Diogo Moreira is right behind in 19th.
Dani Holgado was punished by the FIM (International Motorcycling Federation) Commissioners Panel and will have to serve a long lap in the Assen race for having disrespected a yellow flag in this morning's practice.
The Dutch Moto3 GP at Assen takes place this Sunday at 6am (Brasilia time).GRANDE PRÊMIO is following all the activities of the 2022 World Championship.
Q1: Holgado advances to Q2 with Fernández, Artigas and Nepa. Moreira is eliminated
Unlike Friday when the World Championship was met with rain, the weather was only cloudy on Saturday, but the track was dry, at least in the early stages of qualifying. When the Moto3 riders took to the track, the thermometers read 24°C on a partly cloudy afternoon, with the asphalt reaching 30°C. The relative humidity was around 59%, with wind speeds reaching 8 km/h.
When the first laps were recorded in the opening qualifying session it was Xavi Artigas who appeared in the lead with a lap of 1min47s920, 0s494 better than Adrián Fernández. Diogo Moreira was third, with Stefano Nepa completing the top four. Dani Holgado was fifth, 0s206 down on the cut-off line for the next stage.
In the sequence, Holgado went 1min41s633 to take the lead, ahead of Fernández. Artigas and Kaito Toba. Moreira dropped to fifth, inside the elimination area by 0s099.
The round of pit-stops came next, with Holgado, Fernández, Artigas, and Toba all provisionally through to the final round of qualifying in Assen.
Last on track, Carlos Tatay was riding solo midway through the session and took eighth place, still 1s020 behind the leader Holgado.
As is traditionally the case in Moto3, there was a long delay at the exit of the pit-lane, with riders waiting for one another in the hope of being able to use the vacuum of a faster rider.
With the clock ticking down, Holgado and Fernández took the flag with no further improvements, but retained the lead of the session. Nepa managed to jump up to fourth, with Moreira even improving, but only to take fifth place, 0s122 inside the elimination zone.
So Holgado, Fernández, Artigas and Nepa will go to Q2, while Moreira will start 19th, ahead of Toba, Iván Ortolá, Elia Bartolini, Carlos Tatay, Scott Ogden. Alberto Surra, Taiyo Furusato, Mario Aji, Ana Carrasco, Joshua Whatley, and Luca Lunetta.
Q2: Sasaki seals pole in Dutch GP
Jaume Masià opened the final qualifying session at the top of the grid with a lap of 1min41s811, 0s127 ahead of Ayumu Sasaki. Fernández was third, ahead of Joel Kelso. Sergio García was tenth, while Izán Guevara was eighth.
In the next round, Tatsuki Suzuki went 1min41s362 and took the lead, 0s302 better than David Muñoz. Masià dropped to third, ahead of Sasaki and Fernández. In the final minutes, Guevara jumped into second place with a 1min41s502. John McPhee, who was in 10th place, crashed and caused a yellow flag in the last sector.
Susuki went down and saw his compatriot Ayumu Sasaki take pole position with 1min41s296.
The riders then set off for a round of pit-stops. Suzuki led with 1min41s362, with Muñoz, Masià, Sasaki, Fernández, Lorenzo Fellon, Guevara, Kelso, Dennis Foggia, and John McPhee making up the top-10. García was only 16th.
On his return to the track, Guevara clocked 1min41s502 to jump into second place, 0s140 behind Suzuki. Ryusei Yamanaka had also been faster, but only to take 15th.
In the final minutes. John McPhee crashed in turn 1, causing a yellow flag in the first sector. The Briton was not seriously injured. Shortly thereafter, Suzuki crashed at turn 7, prompting another yellow.
Then Ayumu Sasaki went 1min41s296 and took the lead 0s066 ahead of Suzuki.
Moto3, GP of Holland, Classification