The Colombian of Spanish origin David Alonso (CFMoto) added his second victory of the season after that of Qatar by winning the Grand Prix of the Americas of Moto3 with authority and alone, ahead of the Spaniards Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas), who maintains the leadership of the world championship, and Ángel Piqueras (Honda).
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Holgado continues to lead the world championship, although now with just two points ahead of Alonso, while Ángel Piqueras achieved his first podium in the world championship by finishing third, after having started from eighteenth position.
The race began with two important news, the first of which was the absence of the Spanish José Antonio Rueda (KTM), who had to undergo emergency surgery on his appendages, leaving the second position in the starting lineup vacant and hoping to be able to be ready to compete in the Spanish Moto3 Grand Prix in fifteen days.
The Spanish Adrián Fernández (Honda) was also able to compete in the race, although with the obligation to perform a double ‘long lap’ penalty, as was the Italian Matteo Bertelle (Honda), which practically left them with no options to fight for the podium before the Moto3 race even started.
Alonso did not hesitate at the start and headed into the curve at the end of the straight in first position, followed by the Spanish Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas), with the Australian Joel Kelso (KTM) third, although a mistake caused him to go away. long in the path of a curve and lost contact with the head of the race, and Matteo Bertelle (Honda) next to them, although the Italian had to serve a long lap penalty.
Like him, Joel Esteban (CFMoto), Luca Lunetta (Honda), Jakob Roulstone (Gas Gas), Filippo Farioli (Honda), Josh Whatley (Honda), Riccardo Rossi (KTM), and before had to serve a long lap penalty. At the end of the second lap, the Spanish Iván Ortolá (KTM) crashed for the first time and took the wrong bike when trying to catch the bike of the Italian Stefano Nepa, who crashed next to him and, although he tried to come back after the mishap, a second fall forced him to abandon permanently.
In the race, the Colombian of Spanish origin had it clear and David Alonso achieved more than four seconds in just four laps, at a pace of one second per lap compared to the trio that formed behind him and which included Daniel Holgado, Ángel Piqueras (Honda ) and the Dutchman Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), with the main group a little further back led by the Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM).
Just one lap later, with Alonso 4.4 seconds ahead, both Yamanaka and Kelso reached Holgado’s group, leaving the main group, then led by the Spanish David Muñoz (KTM) and in the There were also the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Husqvarna), the Spaniards Joel Esteban and Adrián Fernández, who had a ‘long lap’ left to complete, ahead of the Australian Roulstone (Gas Gas).
The pace set by David Alonso left no room for doubt, because after the halfway point of the race, barring a driving error or breakdown of his CFMoto, the Colombian’s second victory of the season was unquestionable and the big doubt was which riders would give him They would accompany them on the COTA podium.
From the seventh lap, David Alonso began to ‘manage’ his advantage to take the minimum possible risks with respect to the chasing group, in which Collin Veijer led, but the fastest was Ryusei Yamanaka, with Daniel Holgado, the world championship leader, expectant. in third place in that chasing quintet.
The British Scott Ogden (Honda) was another of the casualties of the race when he saw a black flag during the race, which forced him to leave the track immediately, in the same turn in which the Australian Joel Kelso crashed. into turn one, but recovered quickly and returned to the race, losing just two positions.
In the eleventh lap he crashed in turn four, putting his group mates at risk, the Dutchman Collin Veijer, whose bike both Yamanaka and Holgado had to avoid, a mishap that definitively decided the race in favor of Alonso. which happened to have a difference from just over two seconds to almost five (4.915).
David Alonso’s victory was unappealable, with Ángel Piqueras trying to consolidate second position by taking advantage of the mishap of Holgado and Yamanaka, but he could not prevent them both from catching up with him, Daniel Holgado knowing that he was at risk of losing the lead in the world championship.
Holgado managed to overtake Piqueras with two laps to go, but the young debutant in the category, barely 17 years old, did not throw in the towel and looked for the right moment to overtake the championship leader, who did not want to hand over the lead to Alonso and two corners at the end he once again overtook Piqueras to guarantee second position by barely 13 thousandths of a second.
Fourth place went to Ryusei Yamanaka, who did not interfere in the Spanish fight, fifth position went to David Muñoz, with Joel Esteba ninth, Adrián Fernández eleventh, and Xabi Zurutuza (KTM), thirteenth.