Catalan GP: Ramirez’s first Moto3 success and Marquez’s hat-trick in Moto2

Marcos Ramirez’s first victory this weekend at the Catalan GP brings to twelve the number of different riders who have won successively in Moto3! At the same time, Alex Marquez is making a name for himself on the very fast Triumph-powered Moto2s. Decryption.

If the main question in MotoGP is who of "Marc" or "Marquez" will win it – especially since his teammate! -, the lower categories preserve more suspense, in particular the very competitive Moto3 class.

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An incredible statistic illustrates this lack of domination: no less than twelve drivers have succeeded on the highest step of the podium since the GP of Thailand – won last fall by Fabio Di Giannantonio – and the GP of Catalonia – won by Marcos Ramirez this week-end. Either a different winner per race for more than half a season !

Born on December 16, 1997 in Conil de la Frontera (Spain), Marcos Ramirez won his first victory in the world championship where he started with a wild card at KTM in 2014, before completing his first full season on a Mahindra two years later (19th overall in 2016).

Ramirez then moved to KTM with whom he signed two podiums per season and finished 8th and 10th in 2017 and 2018, then joined the Leopard Racing team for 2019. Winning bet for n ° 42, since he achieved success after seven races on the Honda Moto3 !

This first victory was won after a hard fight after a Catalan Grand Prix during which no less than nine drivers took turns taking the lead. The race was also marked by numerous crashes, including a huge crash involving five motorcycles…

An incident at turn 4 in the race saw three riders go down! 

Not just that, a separate incident moments later at the same turn saw two more join them in the gravel!

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The other twist concerns the former leader of the championship, Lorenzo Dalla Porta, forced to give up due to a mechanical problem with his Honda while he was leading the debates! The slaughter will continue with the successive withdrawals of Migno, Arbolino, Masia, Masabi, Yurchenko, Rodrigo, Binder then Toba !

In total, twelve drivers did not see the arrival of this Catalan Grand Prix: a real race by elimination, at the end of which Marcos Ramirez managed to keep the experienced Aron Canet at a short distance: 0.119 sec separate his Honda KTM at the finish line. Phew !

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Canet – aligned in the – carries out for his part an excellent operation in the championship: here he is now leading the provisional with 23 points ahead of the unfortunate Dalla Porta (103 against 80), author of two consecutive second places before his abandonment on broken. 

Niccolo Antonelli is currently third with 28 points behind the Spanish leader, ahead of Celestino Vieti and Jaume Massia.

Alex Marquez triples his Moto2 stake

He is also a Marquez who is currently talking about him in the intermediate category: Alex, younger brother of "who you know", won in Barcelona his third victory in a row on his Moto2 Kalex. The n ° 73 had never signed a hat-trick since its debut in 2012.

The Spanish rider – in contact – took the opportunity to take the lead in the Moto2 championship with seven points ahead of Tom Luthi. Lorenzo Baldassari, former leader in the provisional, goes down to 4th place following his fall during this GP of Catalonia.

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The previous race, in Italy, was marked by the unprecedented crossing of the 300 km / h mark: 300.6 km / h reached by Nicolo Bulega! This great first in Moto2 is to the credit of the "3-legged" Triumph of 765 cc which replaces 4-cylinder Honda of 600 cc.

Provisional Moto3 classification after the 2019 Catalan GP

1. Aron CANET KTM SPA 103
2. Lorenzo DALLA PORTA Honda ITA 80
3. Niccolò ANTONELLI Honda ITA 75
4. Celestino VIETTI KTM ITA 68
5. Jaume MASIA KTM SPA 65
6. Tony ARBOLINO Honda ITA 51
7. Kaito TOBA Honda JPN 51
8. Marcos RAMIREZ Honda SPA 49
9. John MCPHEE Honda GBR 47
10. Andrea MIGNO KTM ITA 40
11. Gabriel RODRIGO Honda ARG 37
12. Dennis FOGGIA KTM ITA 36
13. Darryn BINDER KTM RSA 33
14. Tatsuki SUZUKI Honda JPN 31
15. Albert ARENAS KTM SPA 30
16. Raul FERNANDEZ KTM SPA 30
17. Jakub KORNFEIL KTM CZE 30
18. Alonso LOPEZ Honda SPA 27
19. Ai OGURA Honda JPN 27
20. Ayumu SASAKI Honda JPN 22
21. Romano FENATI Honda ITA 16
22. Kazuki MASAKI KTM JPN 11
23. Ryusei YAMANAKA Honda JPN 7
24. Carlos TATAY KTM SPA 4
25. Makar YURCHENKO KTM KAZ 4
26. Sergio GARCIA Honda SPA 3
27. Tom BOOTH-AMOS KTM GBR 2
28. Filip SALAC KTM CZE 1

Provisional Moto2 classification after the 2019 Catalan GP

1. Alex MARQUEZ Kalex SPA 111
2. Thomas LUTHI Kalex SWI 104
3. Jorge NAVARRO Speed ​​Up SPA 89
4. Lorenzo BALDASSARRI Kalex ITA 88
5. Marcel SCHROTTER Kalex GER 73
6. Luca MARINI Kalex ITA 68
7. Augusto FERNANDEZ Kalex SPA 67
8. Enea BASTIANINI Kalex ITA 56
9. Brad BINDER KTM RSA 44
10. Remy GARDNER Kalex AUS 41
11. Xavi VIRGIN Kalex SPA 39
12. Sam LOWES Kalex GBR 33
13. Tetsuta NAGASHIMA Kalex JPN 30
14. Iker LECUONA KTM SPA 26
15. Andrea LOCATELLI Kalex ITA 20
16. Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO Speed ​​Up ITA 19
17. Mattia PASINI Kalex ITA 18
18. Nicolo BULEGA Kalex ITA 16
19. Simone CORSI Kalex ITA 10
20. Somkiat CHANTRA Kalex THA 6
21. Bo BENDSNEYDER NTS NED 5
22. Dominique AEGERTER MV Agusta SWI 5
23. Khairul Idham PAWI Kalex MAL 3
24. Jesko RAFFIN NTS SWI 3
25. Jorge MARTIN KTM SPA 3
26. Joe ROBERTS KTM USA 2
27. Stefano MANZI MV Agusta ITA 1

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