Carlos Tatay achieves his first pole with authority

Lombok (Indonesia), 19 Mar Spaniard Carlos Tatay (CF Moto) won the first pole position of his sporting career with great authority in the official qualification for the Indonesian Moto3 Grand Prix at the Mandalika circuit on the island of Lombok. Tatay, who staged several fastest laps, consolidated his lead with a final record of 1:41.232, just 3 thousandths of a second faster than Brazil's Diogo Moreira (KTM), with Indonesian “home” Mario Aji (Honda), in third place. The first qualification for Spaniard Sergio García Dols (GasGas) did not start too well, who at the start of turn twelve and ten minutes before the end of the session stepped on the “piano” (shoulder of the asphalt edges) and slipped without being able to avoid the fall, which significantly complicated his chances of getting to the second classification of Motorbike 3. Fortunately, there was not much material damage to his motorcycle, so the mechanics put all their efforts to ensure that the Spanish rider could return to the track as soon as possible. Said and done, because in the end Sergio García Dols was able to get out on track to set the fastest time of the first classification ahead of Indonesian local Mario Aji (Honda), fellow Spaniard Xavier Artigas (CFMoto) and Italian Alberto Surra (Honda). Daniel Holgado (KTM), the female Ana Carrasco (KTM), who will finish twenty-fourth, with Gerard Riu twenty-sixth, and the Japanese Kaito Toba (KTM), who was third in Qatar, were left out of the second place as a result of a fall she suffered and which did not allow her to play the rest of the round. Nor was the second classification without its mishaps, since shortly after it started and in one of the most complicated points of the course, in the variant between turns two and three, in which the Italian Ricardo Rossi and the British Scott Ogden, were the first to be involved, taking the brunt of the transalpine, who was left stunned for a few moments and had to go through the circuit clinic, although he later returned on his own foot to the team's workshop. On the track, the first surprise came with the Indonesian Mario Aji, who managed to place the leader of the standings, a result that could be historic, but that was short-lived by Spaniard Carlos Tatay (CFMoto), 1:42 .022, by just 29 thousandths of a second almost at the same time that the Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda) left on the floor at the same point as Ogden and Rossi. Like the previous ones, Dennis Foggia was able to return to the track to try to defend a good result, which became third, behind an unattainable Carlos Tatay, who improved his best time by shooting at 1:41 .232. The last lap was intense for almost everyone and, while Carlos Tatay was intractable on his way to his first pole position, behind him there was almost everything, with constant changes of positions and the surprises of two “rookies” such as the Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM) and the Indonesian Mario Aji on the first starting line, and with it relegating to the second both Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), who had been in that first line, and to “distinguished” names such as those of the Italians Andrea Migno and Dennis Foggia. Sergio García Dols finished in the third row, which allowed him to significantly improve his ranking in Indonesia, along with teammate Izan Guevara and Turk Denis Öncü (KTM). In the next one were Japan's Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), Spaniard Jaume Masiá (KTM) and Italian Alberto Surra (Honda). Ivan Ortolá (KTM) was fourteenth, with Adrián Fernández (KTM), seventeenth.