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MotoGP Barcelona GP: Moto2 and Moto3 results

Moto3 (Organization) Aron Canet Kalex Moto2 (Organization) Ai Ogura MotoGP Adrian Fernandez Alonso Lopez David Alonso Honda

Alonso continued his winning run in Moto3, while the Moto2 season ended with Canet taking victory in a tense finale

The day’s action kicked off with an 18-lap Moto3 race, where David Alonso capped off his title-winning campaign with a record-extending 14th victory.

The CFMoto Aspar rider made a brilliant start from pole position to lead into Turn 1, but struggled to pull out a gap in the opening stages of the race.

With the slipstream effect so strong on Barcelona’s main straight, that meant that Alonso was swallowed up by the likes of Daniel Holgado, Ivan Ortola and Adrian Fernandez on lap 3, dropping to fourth.

This was followed by a period in which Tech3’s Holgado and Leopard Racing’s Fernandez traded the lead on virtually every lap, with Holgado overtaking Fernandez a number of times into Turn 1, only for the latter to strike back in the tighter sections of the track.

Alonso dropped as low as eighth by lap six but started gradually coming back at the frontrunners, passing Holgado for second on lap 11.

It was on lap 14 that he finally hit the front, as he moved past Fernandez around the outside of Turn 1.

However, his job wasn’t over, with Fernandez, Boe Motorsport’s David Munoz and MT Helmets - MSi rider Ortola using the slipstream to demote him back to fourth with three laps to run. To make matters worse, he was forced wide by Ortola at Turn 4 on the same tour, losing further ground.

But the 18-year-old quickly fought back to third at the start of the penultimate tour and then dove up the inside of Holgado into Turn 10 to snatch second position. When Fernandez ran wide at the exit of the same corner, Alonso needed no second invitation to retake the lead.

Holding his line on the final lap, Alonso scored an incredible victory to become the first rider to win 14 races in a single season in any class of the world championship.

Holgado took the chequered flag 0.147s behind in second to secure the runner-up spot in the championship, while a three-second penalty for taking a shortcut at Turn 1 on the final lap dropped Fernandez from third to 11th in the final reckoning.

The biggest beneficiary of Fernandez’s sanction was his team-mate and Moto3 rookie Angel Piqueras, who claimed the final podium position ahead of Ajo’s Jose Antonio Rueda and MT Helmets - MSi rider Ryusei Yamanaka.

Munoz and Ortola slumped to sixth and ninth respectively.

Moto3 Solidarity Grand Prix result

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Cla Rider # Bike Laps Time Interval km/h Retirement Points
1
D. Alonso CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team
80 CF MOTO 18

32'27.723

154.9 25
2 Spain D. Holgado Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 96 GASGAS 18

+0.147

32'27.870

0.147 154.9 20
3
Á. Piqueras Leopard Racing
36 Honda 18

+1.210

32'28.933

1.063 154.8 16
4
J. Antonio Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
99 KTM 18

+1.352

32'29.075

0.142 154.8 13
5 Japan R. Yamanaka MT Helmets - MSI 6 KTM 18

+1.685

32'29.408

0.333 154.8 11
6 Spain D. Munoz BOE Motorsports 64 KTM 18

+1.558

32'29.281

154.8 10
7 Japan T. Furusato Honda Team Asia 72 Honda 18

+1.753

32'29.476

0.195 154.7 9
8
J. Roulstone Red Bull GASGAS Tech3
12 GASGAS 18

+2.025

32'29.748

0.272 154.7 8
9
I. Ortola MT Helmets - MSI
48 KTM 18

+2.093

32'29.816

0.068 154.7 7
10
C. Veijer Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP
95 Husqvarna 18

+2.713

32'30.436

0.620 154.7 6
11 Mexico A. Fernandez Leopard Racing 31 Honda 18

+3.418

32'31.141

0.705 154.9 5
12 Australia J. Kelso BOE Motorsports 66 KTM 18

+4.698

32'32.421

1.280 154.5 4
13 Japan T. Suzuki Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP 24 Husqvarna 18

+10.823

32'38.546

6.125 154.0 3
14
D. Almansa Kopron Rivacold Snipers Team
22 Honda 18

+10.939

32'38.662

0.116 154.0 2
15 Italy M. Bertelle Kopron Rivacold Snipers Team 18 Honda 18

+10.957

32'38.680

0.018 154.0 1
16
N. Fabio LEVELUP - MTA
10 KTM 18

+10.970

32'38.693

0.013 154.0
17 United Kingdom S. Ogden FleetSafe Honda - MLav Racing 19 Honda 18

+11.057

32'38.780

0.087 154.0
18
L. Lunetta SIC58 Squadra Corse
58 Honda 18

+12.962

32'40.685

1.905 153.9
19
Á. Carpe Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
83 KTM 18

+13.437

32'41.160

0.475 153.8
20
F. Farioli SIC58 Squadra Corse
7 Honda 18

+13.559

32'41.282

0.122 153.8
21
E. O'Shea FleetSafe Honda - MLav Racing
8 Honda 18

+14.219

32'41.942

0.660 153.8
22
X. Zurutuza Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
85 KTM 18

+16.645

32'44.368

2.426 153.8
23
N. Dettwiler CIP
55 KTM 18

+36.537

33'04.260

19.892 152.0
24
T. Buasri Honda Team Asia
5 Honda 18

+37.067

33'04.790

0.530 152.0
25
M. Uriarte CFMOTO Valresa Aspar Team
89 CF MOTO 18

+38.187

33'05.910

1.120 151.9
dnf Italy R. Rossi CIP 54 KTM 6

+12 Laps

11'32.212

12 Laps 145.3 Retirement
dnf Italy S. Nepa LEVELUP - MTA 82 KTM 1

+17 Laps

3'11.520

5 Laps 87.5 Retirement
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Canet holds off Gonzalez to win in Moto2

Aron Canet, Fantic Racing (Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images)

In Moto2, Aron Canet fended off a late challenge from Manuel Gonzalez to claim his fourth victory of the season -  and third from the last six races.

At the start of the race, Canet made a terrible launch from pole position and slumped to 10th place, allowing Gonzalez to grab the holeshot into Turn 1.

But Canet was quickly able to recover to fifth place, aided by two incidents in front of him. First, it was CFMoto Aspar rider Jake Dixon who made contact with Alonso Lopez into Turn 5, having run wide at the first corner and dropped down the order. It sent him in the path of Jorge Navarro, taking both of them down.

Then, Zonta van den Goorbergh and Celestino Vietti had a high-speed crash under braking for Turn 1, with Deniz Oncu lucky to remain upright after also being hit by the RW Racing rider.

This meant that Canet was back up to third place by the end of lap 3, behind champion Ai Ogura and race leader Gonzalez.

The Fantic Racing rider made light work of Ogura on the following tour and then pulled off a brilliant overtake on Gonzalez at the final corner to retake the lead of the race.

By the midpoint of the race, Canet’s lead had grown to over a second, with Gonzalez likewise putting daylight between himself and MT Helmets - MSi rider Ogura.

However, Canet’s pace began to drop in the closing stages, bringing Gonzales back into play. 

The two riders started the final lap with a quarter of a second separating them, but Canet defended well from his countryman to take the chequered flag with a winning margin of just 0.091s.

Finishing just over a second behind was Diogo Moreira, who replicated Canet’s Turn 14-move on champion Ogura on the final lap to snatch the final spot on the podium.

The two riders had spent the majority of the race battling for third position, with Ogura doing enough for the longest time to hold station.

The Italtrans rider got the move down on him at Turn 1, only for Ogura to strike back with a divebomb on Turn 10. However, it was Moreira who had the last laugh as he secured third place by 0.043s with a last-corner move.

Marc VDS rider Filip Salac crossed the line in fifth ahead of Ogura’s team-mate Sergio Garcia, who secured his best result since a fourth-place finish at Silverstone back in August.

Fermin Aldeguer, who will move up to MotoGP with Gresini next year, finished 10th for SpeedUp Racing after serving a long-lap penalty he picked up in Thailand.

Moto2 Solidarity GP result

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Cla Rider # Bike Laps Time Interval km/h Retirement Points
1 Spain A. Canet Fantic Racing 44 Kalex 21

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25
2 Spain M. Gonzalez Gresini Moto2 18 Kalex 21

+0.091

0.091

0.091 20
3 Brazil D. Moreira Italtrans Racing Team 10 Kalex 21

+1.124

1.124

1.033 16
4 Japan A. Ogura MT Helmets - MSI 79 Boscoscuro B-21 21

+1.167

1.167

0.043 13
5 Czech Republic F. Salač Elf Marc VDS Racing Team 12 Kalex 21

+3.450

3.450

2.283 11
6 Spain S. García MT Helmets - MSI 3 Boscoscuro B-21 21

+4.705

4.705

1.255 10
7 Spain I. Guevara CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team 28 Kalex 21

+5.647

5.647

0.942 9
8 Spain A. Arenas Gresini Moto2 75 Kalex 21

+6.106

6.106

0.459 8
9 Spain A. López Sync SpeedUp 21 Boscoscuro B-21 21

+7.610

7.610

1.504 7
10 Spain F. Aldeguer Sync SpeedUp 54 Boscoscuro B-21 21

+7.660

7.660

0.050 6
11 Thailand S. Chantra Honda Team Asia 35 Kalex 21

+10.545

10.545

2.885 5
12 Spain M. Ramirez OnlyFans American Racing Team 24 Kalex 21

+14.220

14.220

3.675 4
13
S. Agius Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP
81 Kalex 21

+14.733

14.733

0.513 3
14 Italy T. Arbolino Elf Marc VDS Racing Team 14 Kalex 21

+16.204

16.204

1.471 2
15 Spain J. Masia Preicanos Racing Team 5 Kalex 21

+16.397

16.397

0.193 1
16 South Africa D. Binder Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP 15 Kalex 21

+16.476

16.476

0.079
17 Indonesia M. Aji Honda Team Asia 34 Kalex 21

+16.553

16.553

0.077
18 Belgium B. Baltus RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP 7 Kalex 21

+22.363

22.363

5.810
19
D. Muñoz Preicanos Racing Team
17 Kalex 21

+25.443

25.443

3.080
20
Á. Escrig KLINT Forward Factory Team
11 Forward F2 21

+25.903

25.903

0.460
21 Italy S. Manzi Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team 62 Kalex 21

+27.133

27.133

1.230
22 Turkey D. Öncü Ajo Motorsport 53 Kalex 21

+29.727

29.727

2.594
23
X. Cardelús Fantic Racing
20 Kalex 21

+35.400

35.400

5.673
24 Spain X. Artigas KLINT Forward Factory Team 43 Forward F2 21

+39.874

39.874

4.474
25 Italy D. Foggia Italtrans Racing Team 71 Kalex 21

+43.833

43.833

3.959
26 Italy A. Migno Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team 6 Kalex 21

+44.005

44.005

0.172
27 Italy S. Corsi KLINT Forward Factory Team 4 Kalex 21

+46.578

46.578

2.573
dnf Netherlands Z. van den Goorbergh RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP 84 Kalex 1

20 laps

Accident
dnf Italy C. Vietti Ajo Motorsport 13 Kalex 1

20 laps

Accident
dnf United Kingdom J. Dixon CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team 96 Kalex 0

21 laps

Accident
dnf Spain J. Navarro OnlyFans American Racing Team 9 Kalex 0

21 laps

Accident
dnf R. Garcia Fantic Racing 31 Kalex 0

21 laps

Accident
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