Here are the highlights of Moto 3 from the Spanish Grand Prix. MotoGP and Moto 2 have already been highlighted. So, here are the Moto 3 race highlights.
This race will be 23 laps. Just as it was in MotoGP and Moto 2, the wind will be a factor on the circuit. Alex Rins is on pole position. The bikes go out on a sighting lap before coming back to the grid for the start. Hopefully this will be a dry race. At the start, Alex Rins jumps into the lead and Arthur Sissis actually takes over the lead position. Jack Miller is fourth. Jakub Kornfeil takes the lead. Danny Kent, Jack Miller and one other rider went down. They all continued. Kent hit Jack Miller's bike. Romano Fenati also went down. Maverick Vinales ditched his bike, too, and fortunately continued. Miguel Olivera has taken over the lead from Jakub Kornfeil. Vinales has fallen down the order after that crash.
Kornfeil is lurking behind Miguel Oliveira. Maverick Vinales could be out of this race and not win his fourth consecutive Moto 3 Grand Prix race. Rins and Fenati battle. Two more riders have crashed out. Jakub Kornfeil and Brad Binder both went down. Kornfeil tried his hardest to hang onto the bike, but, he couldn't do it. He's out of the race. Rins leads. Miguel Oliveira goes down, too. In replay, the image is of Kornfeil's unreal save of his bike. Alex Rins still leads. Now, Arthur Sissis crashes! They're dropping like flies! This was into Nieto corner. Simone Grotzkyj also went down earlier on.
Maverick Vinales is still in the race. He can pick up points despite the earlier incident. Vinales had his moment in the Esso corner. Alex Rins knows the Jerez circuit as he rode the circuit in the Spanish motorcycle championship. Sixteen laps remain in the race. Alex Rins ALMOST loses control of his bike! But, he hangs on! He loses the lead and goes down to third after that scary incident. Fenati, Faubel and others are coming. Louis Rossi is the new leader. Luis Salom and Sandro Cortesi are two other riders moving up.
Rossi gives up the lead. Vinales languishes in 14th. Rins is the leader and might still have some difficulties going through Alex Creville corner. The riders have also been having some action packed moments into Dry Sac, just like in MotoGP and Moto 2. Louis Rossi dumps his bike meaning Sandro Cortese is now on the podium. Louis Rossi was the leader before crashing. He probably was like, "what on earth was that?!" Fenati leads with Sandro Cortesi, Luis Salom, and Alexis Masbou. Maverick Vinales has moved up to eighth place.
Danny Webb on the Mahindra bike is also in this scrap between at least half a dozen bikes. Twelve laps to go. Dutchman Jasper Iwema is also there. Romano Fenati still leads. Maverick Vinales has made it to sixth place. He will not win his fourth consecutive Grand Prix. But, the points are more important in terms ot the championship. Alex Rins crashes out! He can get back on the track, actually. But, he's lost the lead. Masbou and others are right on top of Rins now. Cortese, Salom and Masbou battle. Rins is second. Fenati leads.
Alex Rins continues to push. Jasper Iwema crashed and resumed. But, he languishes down in 17th. Rins, Salom and Cortesi run 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Romano Fenati continues to lead. Adrian Martin crashes. So does Danny Webb. How many bikes have been ditched in this race? Yikes! Eight laps left. Only eighteen riders and bikes remain in the race. Turn nine at Jerez seems to catch these riders out. That's Curva Angel Nieto. Alex Rins is still second as the top three run into Dry Sac. Fenati is now passing lapped bikes.
Sandro Cortese moves into second after going three wide. Danny kent and Jack Miller do have injuries from their crashes. Jack Miller has a collarbone injury and Danny Kent has bruises. Will they be clear to ride in the next Grand Prix? That race is this weekend in Portugal at the Estoril circuit. Alex Rins battles Sandro Cortesi. Luis Salom is also in this. Fenati is dominating this race in only his second Grand Prix. This championship (Moto 3) is bound to grow throughout the season.
Rins wanted to pass Cortese but thought better of it at least for the moment. Into Sito Pons, the bikes go onto the back straight. Cortese wants by Rins. Rins re-passes. Fenati looks to be the one to win this race should he hold it together for two more laps. He's at Curva Sito Pons, so, he's got quite an advantage on everyone else. Rins and Salom pass. Salom wants by Cortese. There are lapped riders in the way as the last lap begins. Fenati will win the race and take the lead in the championship points table. Rins, Cortese and Salom still battle. Romano Fenati wins his second Moto3 start. He's the third youngest winner in all MotoGP behind Scott Redding and Marco Melandri.
#5 Romano Fenati ITA FTR Honda
Next race: Portugal
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