the spanishl Be Guevara (GasGas) has achieved the fifth victory of the season and second in a row by winning the Japanese Grand Prix of Moto3 that has been disputed in the “Twin Ring” circuit of Motegi, which allows him to extend the advantage in the provisional world championship up to 45 point lead about his own teammate, Sergio García Dols (GasGas), which was fourth.
Izan Guevara was accompanied on the podium by the Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda), third in the world championship, 63 points behind the Spaniardand the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), who is fourth in the championship but already 80 points behind the GasGas rider.
The Japanese Tastuki Suzuki (Honda) was surprised at the start by the Spanish Sergio García Dols (GasGas), who managed to command the race, although he did so for just a couple of corners while from behind, from ninth place, the world leader, Izan Guevara (GasGas) came sixth at the end of the straight and from there he moved up to third position and the leadership before completing the first lap.
On that same opening lap, the race lost four contenders, in a fall in which the Spanish Carlos Tatay (CFMoto) were involvedthe Japanese Kaito Toba (KTM), the Australian) and the British Joshua Whatley (Honda), in which only the Spaniard was able to return to the track but to return on the bike to his workshop.
Guevara, who suffered a fall during the “warm up” in which his motorcycle was badly damaged when it hit the guardrails and that only allowed him to complete one dry lap, he consolidated his leadership with two fast laps replicated by the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) in the second lap, in which the main group was very stretched out and with four pilots with a certain advantage , Izan Guevara, Ayumu Sasaki, Tatsuki Suzuki and Dennis Foggia (Honda), with Sergio García Dols a few meters behind struggling not to be cut off.
Like Guevara, the also Spanish David Muñoz (KTM), who started sixteenth, took just those two initial laps to “hook” to the leading group, which by the fourth lap had already broken up, leaving eleven riders ahead with a certain advantage over the rest of their rivals.
Sasaki took over the race lead on lap four, ahead of Izan Guevara, Dennis Foggia, Tatsuki Suzuki, Sergio García Dols, Jaume Masiá, David Muñoz, Diogo Moreira, Andrea Migno, John McPhee and Riccardo Rossi, but soon was reduced to a dozen by the fall of Suzuki at turn nine.
The Japanese changed the pace at the head of the race and only Guevara and Foggia were able to follow the slipstream of their bike, with Jaume Masiá of bridgehead with his pursuers, led by Sergio García Dols.
Masiá ended up linking up with the leading trio with the fastest race lap included and now with Sergio García Dols as the bridgehead at 2.6 seconds.
With Sasaki bearing the brunt of the escape, the quartet managed to open an insurmountable gap for their rivalsdespite the unsuccessful efforts of Sergio García Dols to catch up, with the trio formed by the British John McPhee (Husqvarna), the Italian Andrea Migno (Honda) and the Spanish David Muñoz a little further back.
The race already had its “filter” and in it only four drivers seemed to have options to fight for the podium and victory, we just had to wait to see the strategies of each other and that halfway through the race, scheduled for twenty laps , returned to see Izan Guevara as leader, although it did not last long when he was again attacked by Sasakiwho was reluctant to lose prominence in the home race.
Four laps from the end, Izan Guevara attacked Sasaki again to take the lead and try to shoot, with Jaume Masiá responding to that attack to overcome the Japanese and go in the wake of the world leaderbut the tires of his motorcycle could not withstand the pressure and he lost the front wheel in turn twelve, suffering a spectacular and high-speed crash, although fortunately without consequences for his physical integrity.
That mishap led to a gap between Izan Guevara and the pursuing duo formed by Foggia and Sasaki, in which the Italian realized the possibility that the leader would leave alone and pulled to hook into the slipstream of his motorcycle, if right At no time could he even “turn the wheel” to a world leader who further increases his lead in the championship.
After the podium of Guevara, Foggia and Sasaki, Sergio García Dols confirmed fourth place, ahead of David MuñozDiogo Moreira (KTM), John Mcphee, Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM), Andrea Migno and Ricardo Rossi, closing the top ten positions, with Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), eleventh, Ivan Ortolá (KTM), thirteenth, Adrián Fernández (KTM) , eighteenth and Ana Carrasco (KTM), nineteenth.
