Moto3™: GASGAS Aspar Team’s Izan Guevara goes lights-to-flag at the German GP.

The GASGAS Aspar Team’s Izan Guevara has run away with victory in the Moto3™ Race at the Liqui Moly Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland. The Spaniard had qualified on pole position and he led all 27 laps around the Sachsenring, taking the chequered flag 4.853 seconds up on the field to seal his second win – and fifth podium – in a row. Leopard Racing’s Dennis Foggia finished runner-up after World Championship leader Sergio Garcia failed to make a move stick at the final corner, but the latter still made it two GASGAS Aspar Team entries on the rostrum.

Ayumu Sasaki (Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max), who was a surprise returnee from injury after an ugly crash two rounds ago at Mugello, rode through to pain to claim a commendable fourth, ahead of fellow Japanese pilot Tatsuki Suzuki (Leopard Racing) and Daniel Holgado (Red Bull KTM Ajo). Deniz Öncü hauled his Red Bull KTM Tech3 entry all the way from 24th on the grid to take seventh.

Guevara made a good launch from pole and was looking at fresh air when he exited the first corner, ahead of the Leopard Honda duo of Foggia and Suzuki. Holgado slipped back initially from his front-row start but was on an early charge, climbing to second when he overtook Suzuki on Lap 3 at Turn 1 and Foggia exactly a lap later again, but handed both of those spots back when he ran wide at the same corner on Lap 6.

Garcia and Sasaki relegated him to sixth when they went underneath the rookie further around at Turn 12, as Guevara crept away at the head of the field. The pole-sitter was about 0.6 seconds up at that point and had moved to a full second clear on Lap 9, at which time Garcia took up third position when he passed Suzuki.

Second-placed Foggia received a track limits warning on Lap 11, before Sasaki went down the inside of Suzuki and into fourth position on Lap 16 at Turn 12. By then, Guevara was just about out to a two-second gap over the pack of five which was following him, and Öncü ran seventh, albeit several seconds behind Holgado, despite not only starting on Row 8 but also having to serve a double Long Lap penalty for a jumpstart.

Guevara was looking unstoppable, increasing his advantage to three seconds on Lap 19 and four seconds on Lap 22, by which time Garcia and Holgado were also riding with track limits warnings having over their heads. Less than a second covered the Foggia-Garcia-Sasaki-Suzuki quartet, but Holgado was starting to lose touch with them as he continued to run in sixth position.

After another couple of laps, it was a three-way fight for the final two podium positions as Suzuki too started to fade, but Guevara was still going on with it. The 17-year-old stretched the gap to five seconds on Lap 25 and cruised home from there, but second position was in no way resolved. Garcia continued to stalk Foggia, forcing the Italian to go defensive at the start of the 27th and final lap. He then fired his GASGAS Aspar bike down the inside of the Leopard Honda at the very last corner of the race, but a rear-end moment meant he could not make the move stick and had to settle for third, albeit just 0.111 seconds behind.

The three riders on the podium are also now the top three in the World Championship, which Garcia continues to lead, but now by a reduced, seven-point margin over team-mate Guevara. Foggia moved into third position, although he is more than two races off the summit at a 51-point deficit to Garcia.

It was a bruising opening to the encounter, with several riders hitting the deck. Tatay (CFMoto Racing PruestelGP) clattered into Rossi (Sic58 Squadra Corse) at the first corner, which forced John McPhee (Sterilgard Husqvarna Max) through the gravel as well, and that incident will be investigated post-race. Joel Kelso (CIP Green Power) crashed out of a top 10 position on Lap 7 at Turn 3 and, two corners further around the track, contact between Öncü and Ryusei Yamanaka (MT Helmets – MSI) caused the latter to run through the gravel at the same time that Scott Ogden (VisionTrack Racing Team) highsided.

There were seven retirements in total, namely Tatay, Joshua Whatley (VisionTrack Racing Team), Yamanaka (MT Helmets – MSI) after a possible technical problem, Kelso, Matteo Bertelle (QJMotor Avintia Racing Team), Ogden, and Rossi.

The gap has tightened at the top of the World Championship and there is everything to play for in the last event before the summer break! Catch Round 11, the Motul TT Assen, on June 24-26 from the TT Circuit Assen.

Moto3™ Race Top 10:

1. Izan Guevara (GASGAS Aspar Team)
2. Dennis Foggia (Leopard Racing) + 4.853
3. Sergio Garcia (GASGAS Aspar Team) + 4.964
4. Ayumu Sasaki (Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max) + 5.941
5. Tatsuki Suzuki (Leopard Racing) + 9.081
6. Daniel Holgado (Red Bull KTM Ajo) + 12.826
7. Deniz Öncü (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) + 13.426
8. Adrian Fernandez (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) + 14.664
9. David Muñoz (BOE Motorsports) + 21.022
10. Ivan Ortola (Angeluss MTA Team) + 21.272.

Liqui Moly Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland

Moto3™ RAC Classification 2022

Sachsenring

, June 19th 2022

32º C

Clear

Track condition: Dry

Humidity: 27%

Ground: 42º

Pos.	Points	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Km/h
1	25	28IzanGuevara	ES	GASGAS Aspar Team	GASGAS	151.5	39’14.9460
2	20	7DennisFoggia	IT	Leopard Racing	Honda	151.2	+4.853
3	16	11SergioGarcia	ES	GASGAS Aspar Team	GASGAS	151.2	+4.964
4	13	71AyumuSasaki	JP	Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max	Husqvarna	151.1	+5.941
5	11	24TatsukiSuzuki	JP	Leopard Racing	Honda	150.9	+9.081
6	10	96DanielHolgado	ES	Red Bull KTM Ajo	KTM	150.6	+12.826
7	9	53DenizÖncü	TR	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	150.6	+13.426
8	8	31AdrianFernandez	ES	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	150.5	+14.664
9	7	44DavidMuñoz	ES	BOE Motorsports	KTM	150.1	+21.055
10	6	48IvanOrtola	ES	Angeluss MTA Team	KTM	150.1	+21.272
11	5	16AndreaMigno	IT	Rivacold Snipers Team	Honda	150.1	+21.452
12	4	5JaumeMasia	ES	Red Bull KTM Ajo	KTM	150.1	+21.529
13	3	43XavierArtigas	ES	CFMOTO Racing PruestelGP	CFMOTO	149.4	+31.870
14	2	23EliaBartolini	IT	QJMotor Avintia Racing Team	KTM	149.5	+31.792
15	1	82StefanoNepa	IT	Angeluss MTA Team	KTM	149.4	+31.949
16		10DiogoMoreira	BR	MT Helmets – MSI	KTM	149.4	+32.120
17		72TaiyoFurusato	JP	Honda Team Asia	Honda	149.4	+32.228
18		20LorenzoFellon	FR	SIC58 Squadra Corse	Honda	149.4	+32.321
19		17JohnMcPhee	GB	Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max	Husqvarna	148.6	+45.223
20		27KaitoToba	JP	CIP Green Power	KTM	148.2	+51.842
21		67AlbertoSurra	IT	Rivacold Snipers Team	Honda	148	+55.564
22		22AnaCarrasco	ES	BOE Motorsports	KTM	146.6	+77.865
23		64MarioSuryo Aji	ID	Honda Team Asia	Honda	121	5 laps
Riders who did not finish first lap
		54RiccardoRossi	IT	SIC58 Squadra Corse	Honda	0
Non-classified riders
		99CarlosTatay	ES	CFMOTO Racing PruestelGP	CFMOTO	144	10 laps
		6RyuseiYamanaka	JP	MT Helmets – MSI	KTM	142.6	13 laps
		70JoshuaWhatley	GB	VisionTrack Racing Team	Honda	147.7	13 laps
		66JoelKelso	AU	CIP Green Power	KTM	144.6	18 laps
		18MatteoBertelle	IT	QJMotor Avintia Racing Team	KTM	150.6	23 laps
		19ScottOgden	GB	VisionTrack Racing Team	Honda	150.6	23 laps

Championship Standings Moto3™ 2022

Moto3™ Championship 2022

Pos.	Rider	Nation	Team	Bike	Points
1	11SergioGarcia	ES	GASGAS Aspar Team	GASGAS	166
2	28IzanGuevara	ES	GASGAS Aspar Team	GASGAS	159
3	7DennisFoggia	IT	Leopard Racing	Honda	115
4	5JaumeMasia	ES	Red Bull KTM Ajo	KTM	107
5	53DenizÖncü	TR	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	91
6	71AyumuSasaki	JP	Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max	Husqvarna	88
7	24TatsukiSuzuki	JP	Leopard Racing	Honda	81
8	16AndreaMigno	IT	Rivacold Snipers Team	Honda	76
9	99CarlosTatay	ES	CFMOTO Racing PruestelGP	CFMOTO	62
10	54RiccardoRossi	IT	SIC58 Squadra Corse	Honda	47
11	43XavierArtigas	ES	CFMOTO Racing PruestelGP	CFMOTO	46
12	6RyuseiYamanaka	JP	MT Helmets – MSI	KTM	43
13	27KaitoToba	JP	CIP Green Power	KTM	38
14	96DanielHolgado	ES	Red Bull KTM Ajo	KTM	38
15	10DiogoMoreira	BR	MT Helmets – MSI	KTM	34
16	44DavidMuñoz	ES	BOE Motorsports	KTM	32
17	48IvanOrtola	ES	Angeluss MTA Team	KTM	29
18	31AdrianFernandez	ES	Red Bull KTM Tech3	KTM	28
19	17JohnMcPhee	GB	Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max	Husqvarna	24
20	23EliaBartolini	IT	QJMotor Avintia Racing Team	KTM	23
21	66JoelKelso	AU	CIP Green Power	KTM	22
22	18MatteoBertelle	IT	QJMotor Avintia Racing Team	KTM	16
23	19ScottOgden	GB	VisionTrack Racing Team	Honda	16
24	82StefanoNepa	IT	Angeluss MTA Team	KTM	9
25	64MarioSuryo Aji	ID	Honda Team Asia	Honda	5
26	20LorenzoFellon	FR	SIC58 Squadra Corse	Honda	5
27	72TaiyoFurusato	JP	Honda Team Asia	Honda	0
28	22AnaCarrasco	ES	BOE Motorsports	KTM	0
29	38DavidSalvador	ES	Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max	Husqvarna	0
30	63SyarifuddinAzman	MY	VisionTrack Racing Team	Honda	0
31	87GerardRiu Male	ES	BOE Motorsports	KTM	0
32	70JoshuaWhatley	GB	VisionTrack Racing Team	Honda	0
33	67AlbertoSurra	IT	Rivacold Snipers Team	Honda	0
34	98Jose AntonioRueda	ES	Rivacold Snipers Team	Honda	0
35	80DavidAlonso	ES	GASGAS Aspar Team	GASGAS	0