David Muñoz surprises and takes his first ‘pole’ in Moto3

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The Spanish rider achieves the first pole position in the category at the Assen circuit, with a circuit record and ahead of the Australian Joel Kelso and the Italian Riccardo Rossi

The Spanish David Munoz (KTM) has surprised all its rivals in the category by achieving, in the penultimate lap that it completed during the second Moto3 classification at the Assen TT circuit, the “pole position” for him Dutch Grand Prix.

Muñoz, pupil of Sevillian José Luis Cardoso, achieved a record of 1:41.181 on that penultimate lap of the Dutch track, with which he surpassed the Australian joel kelso (CFMoto) in almost three tenths of a second and in little more than the Italian riccardo rossi (Sling).

In addition, David Muñoz, with a time of 1:41.181, set a new absolute record for the category by beating the previous best mark, which had been held by the British John McPhee (Honda) since last season, with 1:41.190.

But before that there were many surprises, because the world leader, the Spanish Daniel Holgado (KTM) was forced to go through the first classification after some bad practice sessions and far from amending the situation in any way, he ended up “spoiling” it at the end of that thirteenth session, with not a few problems, which plunged him into the last position of exit formation.

It is true that the Spaniard saw his best fast lap canceled for exceeding the limits of the circuit and that circumstance led him to “failure”.

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baggy, what has a 41-point advantage on his immediate pursuer, the Spanish Jaume Masiá (Honda), before the Dutch race, he is forced to make a good start to try to come back as soon as possible and link up with the leading group, an objective that, to say the least, seems complicated .

With Daniel Holgado out of that second classification, the ones who did achieve the goal was an unknown Japanese rider Taiyo Furusato (Honda), who knew how to take advantage of his opportunity behind the slipstream of another rider to finish first, followed by Iván Ortolá (KTM), the Italian Filippo Farioli (KTM) and Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM).

The second classification did not start too well for the Spanish-Colombian David Alonso (GasGas), who crashed in turn eight and the accident conditioned the rest of the standings, which ended in seventeenth place.

At that same point, one of the contenders for pole position, the Spaniard, crashed shortly after. Jaume Masiawho in the end had to settle, for this reason, with eighth place, after having led practically all the training sessions.

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His rivals, with little rest, continued to struggle and looking for a “good wheel” in the best possible waywhich in the end went to David Muñoz, ahead of Joel Kelso and Riccardo Rossi, who will be the ones to “take” the first starting line and, behind them, the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), who became the leader, the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM) and Italian Stefano Nepa (KTM) finished in second, with Japanese Kaito Toba (KTM), Jaume Masiá and Dutch Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) in third, and Romano Fenati (Honda), José Antonio Rueda (KTM) and Andrea Migno (KTM), in the fourth.

Further back, with problems in practice and the goal of making a good start to try to improve his situation, are David Salvador (KTM), who will start fourteenth, with Adrián Fernández (Honda), behind him, David Alonso (GasGas), seventeenth. , Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), nineteenth, ahead of Iván Ortolá (KTM), Diogo Moreira (KTM), twenty-second, Ana Carrasco (KTM), twenty-sixth, and Daniel Holgado, last.



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