Pedro Acosta signs his first pole of the year in Moto2 and Iván Ortolá will start third in Moto3

MADRID, 17 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish rider Pedro Acosta (Kalex) has taken pole position for the Moto2 race of the German Grand Prix, the seventh round of the Motorcycle World Championship, while Iván Ortolá (KTM) will start third in Moto3, where the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki ( Husqvarna) secured the first starting position.

The man from Mazarrón, the only one capable of going below 1:24 at Sachsenring (1:23.858), flew to achieve his first pole position of the season and the second in his history in the intermediate category, all to surprise the leader, the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex).

The transalpine, who leads Murcia by 20 points overall, could only be second ahead of the British Jake Dixon (Kalex), who completed the front row for Sunday’s race.

After the ‘podium’, Arón Canet (Kalex) and Alonso López (Boscoscuro) classified, fourth and fifth respectively, while Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), Albert Arenas (Kalex) and Sergio García Dols (Kalex) closed the ‘Top 10’ .

Manu González (Kalex) and Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex), twelfth and seventeenth, entered the ‘Top 18’ of Q2; Marcos Ramírez (Forward) will start twenty-fourth, Carlos Tatay (Kalex) twenty-sixth and Izan Guevara (Kalex), twenty-seventh.

For his part, the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) was the fastest this Saturday in Moto3, where he pulverized the track record, and took pole position ahead of the Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM) and the Spanish Iván Ortolá (KTM). , who will accompany you on the first row of the grill.

The Japanese stopped the clock in 1:25.130 and set a new record in the Saxony ring, where up to four Spaniards slipped into the ‘Top 7’ on Saturday. With the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) fourth, David Muñoz (KTM) and Jaume Masià (Honda) will be on the second row, fifth and sixth respectively, and the leader of the small category, Dani Holgado (KTM), will start seventh.

In addition, Xavi Artigas (CFMoto) will start twelfth and José Antonio Rueda (KTM) will do so in seventeenth, while Ana Carrasco (KTM), Adrián Fernández (Honda) and David Salvador (KTM), who did not make it past Q1, will start twenty-first , twenty-fourth and last, respectively.