The Madrid native signs another victory and remains 13 points behind Bagnaia
MADRID, 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish rider Jorge Martín (Ducati) has given a new blow to the MotoGP general classification after winning this Sunday in the Thai Grand Prix race, the seventeenth round of the motorcycle World Championship, while Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) won in Moto2 ahead of Pedro Acosta (Kalex) who could become champion in Malaysia and the Colombian David Alonso (GasGas) won in Moto3, where Jaume Masià (Honda) remains the leader.
Martín, who already achieved a sprint victory on Saturday that allowed him to get closer to ‘Pecco’, completed a dream weekend in Buriram and banished all the ghosts that accompanied him in the previous events. After crashing in Mandalika and being overtaken by up to four drivers when he was leading on the last lap at Phillip Island due to the poor choice of tires, the one from San Sebastián de los Reyes did not fail this Sunday.
‘Martinator’ resisted harassment until the end from Brad Binder (KTM), who for stepping on the green on the last lap was relegated to third position – which makes him the South African with the most podiums in the premier class (9) – for the benefit of leader Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), who cushioned Martín’s blow with this second place.
With this double, the Spaniard is only 13 points behind ‘Pecco’ in the MotoGP overall, all with three Grand Prix and six races to be held. “I haven’t slept, I was thinking about the next day. And this Sunday, finally, I was able to relax. I need four or five days to disconnect from the bikes because this triplet has been, really, quite hard, especially on a mental level “It has destroyed me,” Martín confessed to DAZN about the Asian triptych.
In addition, Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia) managed to finish fifth but was penalized with three seconds and dropped to eighth place for failing to comply with the minimum tire pressure regulations, a penalty that allowed Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda) to move up from seventh to first. eighth position.
Joan Mir (Repsol Honda) finished twelfth; Raúl Fernández (Aprilia) closed the points zone, fifteenth; Augusto Fernández (KTM) was seventeenth and Pol Espargaró (KTM), eighteenth. Neither Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) nor Alex Márquez (Ducati) managed to finish due to falls.
ALDEGUER WINS IN MOTO2 AND ARBOLINO POSTPONES ACOSTA’S TITLE
For his part, the Spanish Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) was intractable and signed the victory in Moto2 ahead of the championship leader, his compatriot Pedro Acosta (Kalex), while the local hero Somkiat Chantra (Kalex) got on the podium together to the two Murcians.
Aldeguer, who started from pole, gave none of his rivals a chance and won from start to finish at the Chang International Circuit, where Acosta also did his homework in search of the title by finishing in second position. However, his main rival for the championship, the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), also delivered by taking fourth position.
In this way, the transalpine, 63 points behind the leader in the general classification, neutralized the first ‘match ball’ of the Mazarrón, who in 15 days in Malaysia will enjoy his second opportunity to become champion of the intermediate class; To postpone the ‘alirón’ again, it would only be better for Arbolino to win the race and for the Spaniard to finish fifth or worse.
As for the rest of the Spaniards, Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) finished sixth, Albert Arenas (Kalex) was seventh, Alonso López (Boscoscuro) finished eighth, Izan Guevara (Kalex) finished ninth and Manu González (Kalex), tenth.
Arón Canet (Kalex) will continue third in the general classification of the intermediate displacement despite being eleventh after being hampered by overtaking at the start and being penalized with a double ‘long lap’, while Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) and Alex Escrig ( Forward) finished thirteenth and nineteenth, respectively. Sergio García Dols (Kalex) went to the ground and couldn’t finish.
MASIÀ CONTINUES LEADER OF MOTO3 AND ALONSO IS PROCLAIMED ‘ROOKIE OF THE YEAR’
Finally, the Colombian David Alonso (GasGas) was proclaimed ‘rookie of the year’ in Moto3 after signing his fourth victory of 2023 to be just 25 points behind the leader, who continues to be Jaume Masià (Honda) who finished fourth and He benefited from the fall of the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) after colliding with the Spanish Iván Ortolá (KTM).
The 17-year-old Colombian led a podium in which he was accompanied by the Japanese Taiyo Furusato (Honda) and the Dutch Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), and despite the fact that Masià was just short of it, he was able to extend his lead position, which was only four points upon reaching Buriram.
Now, the man from Algemesí has a 17-unit advantage over Sasaki, while Alonso is already third at 25, after overtaking Dani Holgado (KTM) in the general standings, who was sixth this Sunday after being affected by the incident between the Japanese and Ortolá, with still 75 points at stake.
For his part, Ortolá finished eleventh and Xavi Artigas (CFMoto) finished fourteenth, just ahead of Adrián Fernández (Honda). José Antonio Rueda (KTM) finished out of the points, sixteenth; Vicente Pérez (KTM), eighteenth; and David Salvador (KTM), twenty-fifth. David Muñoz (KTM) could not complete the appointment.
2023-10-29 10:16:22
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