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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 Manuel Gonzalez

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	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	R. Yamanaka MT Helmets - MSI	6	KTM	18	+1.685 32'29.408	0.333	154.8		11
6	D. Muñoz BOE Motorsports	64	KTM	18	+1.558 32'29.281		154.8		10
7	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	A. Fernandez Leopard Racing	31	Honda	18	+3.418 32'31.141	0.705	154.9		5
12	J. Kelso BOE Motorsports	66	KTM	18	+4.698 32'32.421	1.280	154.5		4
13	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	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	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	R. Rossi CIP	54	KTM	6	+12 Laps 11'32.212	12 Laps	145.3	Retirement
dnf	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	A. Canet Fantic Racing	44	Kalex	21	-				25
2	M. Gonzalez Gresini Moto2	18	Kalex	21	+0.091 0.091	0.091			20
3	D. Moreira Italtrans Racing Team	10	Kalex	21	+1.124 1.124	1.033			16
4	A. Ogura MT Helmets - MSI	79	Boscoscuro B-21	21	+1.167 1.167	0.043			13
5	F. Salač Elf Marc VDS Racing Team	12	Kalex	21	+3.450 3.450	2.283			11
6	S. García MT Helmets - MSI	3	Boscoscuro B-21	21	+4.705 4.705	1.255			10
7	I. Guevara CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team	28	Kalex	21	+5.647 5.647	0.942			9
8	A. Arenas Gresini Moto2	75	Kalex	21	+6.106 6.106	0.459			8
9	A. López Sync SpeedUp	21	Boscoscuro B-21	21	+7.610 7.610	1.504			7
10	F. Aldeguer Sync SpeedUp	54	Boscoscuro B-21	21	+7.660 7.660	0.050			6
11	S. Chantra Honda Team Asia	35	Kalex	21	+10.545 10.545	2.885			5
12	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	T. Arbolino Elf Marc VDS Racing Team	14	Kalex	21	+16.204 16.204	1.471			2
15	J. Masia Preicanos Racing Team	5	Kalex	21	+16.397 16.397	0.193			1
16	D. Binder Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP	15	Kalex	21	+16.476 16.476	0.079
17	M. Aji Honda Team Asia	34	Kalex	21	+16.553 16.553	0.077
18	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	S. Manzi Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team	62	Kalex	21	+27.133 27.133	1.230
22	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	X. Artigas KLINT Forward Factory Team	43	Forward F2	21	+39.874 39.874	4.474
25	D. Foggia Italtrans Racing Team	71	Kalex	21	+43.833 43.833	3.959
26	A. Migno Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team	6	Kalex	21	+44.005 44.005	0.172
27	S. Corsi KLINT Forward Factory Team	4	Kalex	21	+46.578 46.578	2.573
dnf	Z. van den Goorbergh RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP	84	Kalex	1	20 laps			Accident
dnf	C. Vietti Ramus Ajo Motorsport	13	Kalex	1	20 laps			Accident
dnf	J. Dixon CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team	96	Kalex	0	21 laps			Accident
dnf	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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