Veijer will start first in Moto3
MADRID, 25 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish rider Arón Canet (Kalex) sealed the pole this Saturday for the Moto2 race of the Grand Prix of the Valencian Community, the last event of the motorcycle World Championship, leading an entirely Spanish front row together with Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) and Marcos Ramírez (Kalex), while the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) will start first in Moto3.
After 42 years of experience and five world champion titles, Sito Pons is experiencing his last Grand Prix at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Cheste, after selling the team, Pons Racing, and the Moto2 spot to MT Helmets MSi . And Canet wanted to offer him a big farewell with the pole position in the intermediate class.
With a masterful last lap in front of his audience, the one from Corbera, who also wore a replica helmet of the one Sito Pons wore at the time, clocked a 1:33.314 that earned him the advantage over Aldeguer, while Ramírez joined the party, guaranteeing the first starting line.
The Murcian Pedro Acosta (Kalex), free of any pressure after becoming champion in Sepang, will start sixth. Albert Arenas (Kalex) will start ninth, Sergio García Dols (Kalex) will start thirteenth, ahead of Alonso López (Boscoscuro) and Izan Guevara (Kalex), and Manu González (Kalex) will start eighteenth.
Alex Escrig (Forward), who will start from twenty-second position, did not advance to Q2; Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex), who will start twenty-third; and Héctor Garzó (NTS), who will start twenty-eighth.
For his part, in Moto3, the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) guaranteed himself pole position for the last race of the season, while the brand new champion of the premier category, Jaume Masià (Honda), will debut his vitola starting from eighth position.
In this way, Veijer achieves his second pole of the year and will lead a front row of the grid in which he will be accompanied by his teammate and second place overall, the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), and the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM).
Meanwhile, Iván Ortolá (KTM), the best-placed Spaniard this Saturday, will start sixth, closing the second row. The third will be shared by José Antonio Rueda (KTM), Masià and David Muñoz (KTM), seventh, eighth and ninth, respectively.
In addition, Adrián Fernández (Honda) will start twelfth, Vicente Pérez (KTM) will start thirteenth and Dani Holgado (KTM), who did not set a time in Q2, will start eighteenth. Among those who did not pass Q1, Xavi Artigas (CFMoto) will start the event twenty-second, David Salvador (KTM) twenty-third and Marcos Ruda (Husqvarna), twenty-fifth.