2024 Australian Moto3 Grand Prix – Race Results | Moto3

Spherical seventeen of the Moto3 championship, the Australian Grand Prix, started as a detailed, cagey affair however ended with domination from David Alonso. With the hammer down the Colombian completed the clear winner at a lastly sunny Phillip Island.

The CFMoto Gaviota GasGas rider had solely certified tenth, however the shut nature of the race allowed the Sunday males to surge ahead on the quick and flowing observe.

Alonso was quickly swapping locations and hitting the entrance. When within the lead once more with 4 laps remaining the #80 determined it was time to tug the pin and over a handful of corners had a half a second hole.

That was at a second after a lap and solely prolonged with Alonso main over the road by a sizeable 2.936s.

Alonso’s eleventh win matches the report whole of Valentino Rossi within the light-weight class, he celebrated with a bandage round his head as that had been Rossi’s podium celebration when he hit the identical milestone, standing subsequent to Jorge Martinez ‘Aspar’ in 1997 , who’s now Alonso’s staff supervisor.

Behind, it had develop into a 4 manner battle for the remaining two podium locations, with Daniel Holgado, Adrian Fernandez, Stefano Nepa and David Munoz preventing it out for the remaining rostrum spots.

Holgado had struggled in qualifying once more, sitting in 14th to start out the race. A poor begin noticed him all the way down to 18th on lap one, however the shut nature allowed him to rally as nicely.

The large crash in the principle pack – Collin Veijer was left nowhere to go by Angel Piqueras, accumulating polesitter Ivan Ortola on the best way down, noticed the Pink Bull GasGas Tech3 rider in a position to declare second within the chaos, successful the struggle for the place to the road after popping out on prime within the quartets final nook battle.

Adrian Fernandez lead for a big portion of the race and was not shy of a transfer up the within to remain within the combine. The Leopard rider solely simply missed out on second, holding his positive run of kind going as he collected his third podium in a row on the Leopard Honda.

That meant Stefano Nepa simply missed out.

Nepa levels comeback from penalty and double contact for fourth.

Stefano Nepa was given a double lengthy lap penalty for driving slowly within the construct as much as race day, for a fourth offence. Beginning sixth, the LevelUP – MTA rider was fast to hit the entrance and straight up the penalty loop returning to trace in sixteenth. The second loop journey was taken rapidly so the Italian may focus on transferring ahead, now from nineteenth place.

Nepa set a brand new race lap report as he made his strikes, however was on the receiving finish of contact from his personal teammate, Nicola Carraro, as he crashed out, their traces crossing on observe, leaving the tail of the KTM broken. There was additional contact with Riccardo Rossi however the swapping out entrance left Nepa in a position to bridge the hole and are available tantalisingly near a podium end, as an alternative taking a hard-earned fourth.

David Munoz additionally had a spell out entrance on his solution to fifth for BOE Motorsports, the final of the group to take the chequered flag.

Ryusei Yamanaka was not far behind in sixth on the one remaining MT Helmets – MTA bike, additionally making up locations from eleventh on the grid. The Japanese rider held off a late push from fellow countryman Taiyo Furusato, who was seventh for Honda Crew Asia.

Luca Lunetta was fortunate to nonetheless be aboard after a really sideways second on the SIC58 Squadra Corse bike, the highest rookie within the race in eighth, simply forward of Angel Piqueras, who began the weekend as the shape rider, after an early second for the Leopard rider, recovering to tenth, simply behind Jose Antonio Rueda, who cut up the newcomers in ninth for Pink Bull KTM Ajo.

Joel Kelso additionally had a spell within the lead of his residence race, however fell again into the pack, taking a detailed eleventh on the second BOE Motorsports bike. Fellow Australian Jacob Roulstone was thirteenth, with Rossi splitting the pair in twelfth.

The remaining factors went to Matteo Bertelle in 14th for Rivacold Snipers and Tatsuki Suzuki in 15 for Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP.

Crashes, Accidents and Replacements

Veijer remounted to complete 18th and was fast to the storage to apologise and clarify his personal contact to Ortola on the finish of the race.

Eddie O’Shea was one place additional again on his return from harm. Fellow MLav Racing rider Scott Ogden was one other faller, ending a lap down in twenty second.

David Almansa and Filippo Farioli additionally failed to complete.

Championship Standings

Alonso had the title secured in Japan , so stays on prime – now with a brand new light-weight class factors whole of 346, which may nonetheless be added to with a number of rounds remaining after passing Joan Mir’s outdated milestone of 341.

Holgado sits second general, on 232, now pretty away from third positioned Veijer (209) and fourth positioned Ortola (191) after sales space suffered DNF’s.