Izan Guevara is proclaimed Moto3 world champion

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The Spanish rider is already mathematically Moto3 world champion

He finished ahead of Deniz Öncü and Sergio García Dols

The Spanish Izan Guevara (GasGas) achieved a magnificent victory in the Moto3 Australian Grand Prix on the Phillip Island circuit with which he has managed to proclaim himself mathematically world champion Moto3, seventh in the category and twenty-third in Spanish motorcycling, after an intense battle with the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM), the Spanish Sergio Garcia Dols (GasGas) and the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna).

At the start surprised the explosive exit of the Spanish Sergio García Dols (GasGas), who took the lead at the end of the straight while his teammate, Izan Guevara (GasGas), who was mathematically at stake for the world title, was seventh, with the Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda) in fourteenth position .

The first laps of the race were going to be decisive in Guevara’s aspirations to become world champion, so it was important not to make mistakes, although he had some other contact with other riders that did not make him lose sixth place with which he completed the first lap, although it caused him to stay a little cut with respect to the leading quintet, with whom he soon reconnected.

In the second lap the leader was the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), another of the rivals for the title for Izan Guevara, but the Spaniard was already with the leading group, made up of seven riders, Ayumu Sasaki, Sergio García Dols, Diogo Moreira, Izan Guevara, Deniz Öncü, Iván Ortolá and Joel Kelso.

Behind, Japanese Taiyo Furusato (Honda) and Spanish Daniel Holgado crashed (KTM) in a contact between the two, which left the Spaniard lying on the track, who was about to be run over by other riders, although fortunately nothing happened.

As the laps passed, the situation became clearer, with the group stretching and shortening like a rubber band, but always with the Spaniards Sergio García Dols and Izan Guevara in the leading positionssince in the case of winning the first, the world leader needed to be second to mathematically proclaim himself world champion.

Already in the new lap Izan Guevara decided to take action and took the lead in the race pursued by his teammate Sergio García Dols, the Turkish Deniz Öncü and the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki, but lap after lap the positions changed between them, because in the tenth it was García Dols who passed the finish line first, although with a few meters of advantage that quartet with respect to the rest.

Eleventh lap and again Izan Guevara in the lead, now with Sasaki, García Dols and Öncü from behind.

The race then took on a new dimension, with four drivers fighting for podium positions and, for some of them, also for the world title, but the leader did what he had to do. assume his “role” and look for a victory that will confirm him as world champion in 2022.

Once again Izan Guevara assumed the responsibility of setting the pace at the head of the race and changing the pace to try to definitively break the fight for victory and, in his case, to sentence the Moto3 world title in 2022, but neither Sergio García Dols nor Ayumu Sasaki allowed it, so the rider from Palma de Mallorca decided to “hold out” until the final lapsbut without yielding one iota to its rivals.

Five laps from the end, on the nineteenth lap, Izan Guevara went from first to fourth position, while the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda), further back, crashed, but in the next one he recovered two positions and went to second place with everything to decide, to regain the lead shortly after.

But Izan Guevara was not willing to achieve the title without claiming victory and I wait for the right moment to regain the lead in the first corner of the last lap and, from that moment on, closing all the gaps, “pressing” on the sections of the circuit that he knew were faster than all his rivals to get about three tenths of an advantage that would give him victory and the world title, ahead Deniz Öncü and Sergio García Dols, with David Muñoz (KTM) eleventh, Carlos Tatay (CFMoto) twelfth, and behind him Iván Ortolá (KTM), Xavier Artigas (CFMoto) and Jaume Masiá (KTM).

Outside the points concluded Adrián Fernández (KTM), eighteenth, and Ana Carrasco (KTM), twenty-third.



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