The Spanish Jaume Masia (Honda) achieved victory in the Dutch Grand Prix of Moto3 which was disputed in circuito TT Assen and closed the gap with the World Cup leader, also a Spaniard Daniel Holgado (KTM), who finished last.
Holgado did not practice well and ended up in the last position, from where he started the race, but already on the first lap he ruined any chance of coming back when he suffered a crash that distanced him even more from the leading riders , where Jaume Masiá knew how to take advantage of his opportunity to cut a significant number of points in the fight for the championship.
CRAZY! ???? Overtaking at the chicane to win in the cathedral of motorcycling! ✨
what a piece of victory @jaume_masia in Moto3! Winning the game against Sasaki in the penultimate corner! ????#DutchGP ???????? #MotoGP ???? pic.twitter.com/fj550vHVN8
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) June 25, 2023
The world championship leader arrived with a 41-point advantage over Masiá and goes on vacation with just 16 over him and 26 over the Japanese Ayumi Sasakiwho added his fourth consecutive podium at the TT Assen.
leader’s fall
David Muñoz did not fail at the startserious and in his place, entered the curve at the end of the straight first, seconded by the Australian Joel Kelso (CFMoto), while the world championship leader, the Spanish Daniel Holgado (KTM), who rose from last to twenty-third position in just two sets, at turn ten it went to the groundalthough he quickly recovered his motorcycle without the engine stopping.
Holgado thus lost any chance of going back to the leading riders, as he returned to the track more than 30 seconds behind the last classified, while in the race Iván Ortolá (KTM) was warned that he could comply with the “long lap” penalty that they imposed him yesterday, just after starring in the fastest lap of the race.
Ortolá, who started from the twentieth position, was eighth when he met the penalty, which made him return to the track twelfth, while in another area of the track, in sector one, turn five, the British Josh Whatley and the Spanish Adrián Fernández went to the ground (Honda), who had to comply with two “long laps” penalty.
The fall of the leader of the Moto3 World Championship! Daniel Holgado started last… and he crashed on the first lap! ❌#DutchGP ???????? #MotoGP ???? pic.twitter.com/1VRTmPPjAS
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) June 25, 2023
[Consulta la clasificación del Mundial de Moto3]
constant attacks
At the head of the race was by then, already in the third lap, Jaume Masiá the leader, ahead of David Muñoz and a long group of riders, who they lavished on overtaking almost every lap and with Iván Ortolá at a fast lap pace on the fourth lap he was already ninth in that same group.
The pace they set at the head of the race meant that one lap later the group was reduced to twelve riders, with the Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM) leading the chasing group, almost two seconds behind the leader of the race.
The Spaniards Jaume Masiá, David Muñoz, José Antonio Rueda, Xavier Artigas and Iván Ortolá, the Australian Joel Kelso, the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM), the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), the Italians Stefano Nepa (KTM), Riccardo Rossi ( Honda) and Romano Fenati (Honda) and the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Huqvarna) were the members of that leading group, which due to the constant overtaking between them they slowed down their pace and ended up being “hunted” by their pursuers.
The group was once again made up of twenty riders, although it was losing units to be in a fortnight on the eighth lap, led then by Stefano Nepa, ahead of Öncü, Muñoz and Ortolá, who barely a lap later was cut off again, with ten drivers ahead.
With Nepa stretching the group of ten, they ended up definitively breaking the race and behind the Italian were David Muñoz, Iván Ortolá, Jaume Masiá, Ayumu Sasaki, Deniz Öncü, Romano Fenati, Joel Kelso, Collin Veijer and José Antonio Rueda.
More than two seconds behind, Another group of ten riders remained, led by Diogo Moreira, David Alonso and Xavier Artigas.
[Consulta el calendario de Moto3]
Jaume Masiá regained the lead four laps from the end, in a turn in which there was practically everything, with touches between Ortolá, Nepa and Muñoz, who took advantage of the Spanish and the Italian Fenati to take the lead of the race and perhaps try the final cut, but Deniz Öncü was very attentive and hooked on them so that they did not escape.
From then until the end there was not a moment for respite, with all the drivers looking for the best position for the final attack on a circuit where the variant of the entrance to the finish line could become judge and executioner for all contenders.
Opportunity to get closer to Holgado
But Masiá, who by then should already have known that the world championship leader, Daniel Holgado, was not going to score, which It represented a unique opportunity to close the gap in the championshiphe tried with all his might and, in fact, in some sets he achieved a certain advantage of more than three tenths over his pursuers, but in the rest of the sets he lost it, and thus they entered the last lap.
Jaume Masiá started as the leader, chased by Ayumu Sasaki, while Iván Ortolá went off at the end of the straight and lost many positions and the skirmishes became a constant until reaching turn fifteen, in which Sasaki overtook Masiá, but the Spaniard He returned it masterfully in seventeenth, the first of the two curves of the variant, to claim victory by just 81 thousandths of a second.
Masiá thus achieved his first victory of the season and the seventh of his sports career, after having played 99 grand prix, ahead of Ayumu Sasaki and Deniz Öncü with him on the podium.
“It was time. I had an incredible desire and it was time to start pushing a little more” ????
It had been more than a year @jaume_masia did not win And today there is no more happiness in his body ????#DutchGP ???????? #MotoGP ???? pic.twitter.com/bRBz9ELd0E
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) June 25, 2023
The final fourth place went to Iván Ortolá, ahead of David Muñoz, José Antonio Rueda, Collin Veijer, Romano Fenati, Joel Kelso and Stefano Nepa, who was the group of ten at the head of the race.
The Brazilian Diogo Moreira finished twelfth, ahead of the Spanish-Colombian David Alonso (GasGas) and Xavier Artigas. David Salvador (KTM) was twentieth, with Ana Carrasco (KTM) twenty-fourth and Daniel Holgado twenty-fifth and last.
2023-06-25 08:45:37
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