Catalunya Moto3: Alonso victorious as Holgado suffers late exit

Alonso spent the early part ✨of the race working his way through from twelfth on the grid while Jaume Masia, Deniz Oncu and Daniel Holgado did the work leading the race out front in a tense st🐼art to the eleventh round of the championship.
The tailwind on the straight and overtaking allowed the Gaviota GasGas Aspar rider to make his own moves within the huge l🔯ead group, which only splintered into a lead fourteen over the last few laps.
Alonso had his own brief spell in 🧸the lead on la💟p six, before sitting in behind, but never far from the man in first.
As so often in Moto3, the last lap of Montmelo proved crucial. It was championship leader Holgado who lead down the straight and over the line, before Jaume Masia made his move, t🌃aking over 𒐪at the front by turn five.
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As the corners counted down the group bunched up and the championship leader was swamped, ⛄pushing to stay in with a podium shout, he slipped off unaided at turn ten on the last lap, but remounted his Red Bull KTM Tech3 bike in the hope of a point. It was not to be, crossing the line 22nd.
Back up front Masia was under pressure and soon saw David Munoz in control - as the💧 lead trio of that duo and Alonso came around the final bends they were in 💦a line, with the win wide open and the line approaching.
The #80 threaded his bike through the smallest of gaps to💜 win over the line by just 0.076s f♛or his second career win.
Masia held second after his determined run for Leopard Honda, but it was Deniz Oncu who cross⭕ed the line third after his swoop from 🐷behind on his Red Bull KTM saw him slide straight into the side of Munoz at turn fourteen, taking him out of the race.
The move was quickly in𓃲vestigated by racಞe direction, and the Turkish rider was handed a six second penalty, dropping him to twelfth. A dejected Oncu had his head in his hands, kicking the railings at the news.
That promꦑoted his teammate in the Ajo outfit, rookie Jose Antonio Rueda, to his first ever podium finish.
Ayumu Sasaki gained places late in the race and was on Rueda’s tail on track for fo🧔urth for Liqui M🧸oly IntactGP, recovering well from his 13th place start.
Stefano Nepa also made gains and was as high as third briefly in the tight group on his way to fi🌟fth for the Angeluss MTA Team.
Riccardo Rossi secured sixth for the SIC58 Squadra Corse team, just ahead of CIP Green Power’s Kaito Toba in seventh , while his compa🍒triots, Leopard’s Tatsuki Suzuki and Aspar’s Ryusei Yamanaka completed the top ten with Ivan Ortola, who launched from pole for the first time in his career, but faded in the co💯mpetitive pack.
Matteo Bertelle pl♒aced eleventh for Rivalcold Snipers, with Oncu slotted into twelfh.
There was a♑ gap back on track for 13th, with Xavier Artigas, who charged through from 22nd on his CFMoto bike just holding off Taiyo Furusato (Honda⛄ Team Asia) to the chequered flag.
Scott Ogden raced his way up to 15th as the best of tℱhe VisionTrack riders, but he was demoted a place for contact ealrier in the race when his move was reviewed, allowing Romano Fenati to pick up the final point.
The Rivacold rider had been moved to the very back of the grid and handed an additional long lap penalty for irresponsi💞ble riding in Q2, deemed to have been riding slowly.
Front row starter Joel Kelso faded 🦹badly, finishing 18th for CFMoto🐽.
Crashes, injuries and replacements
There were two Moto3 wildcards in the Catalan race - Tachakorn Buasri (20th🎃) for Honda Team Asia and David Almansa with Finetwork Intact GP in 24th.
With Holgado remounting, the only DNFs in the race were for Munoz and Fillipo Far🏅ioli, who lasted four laps.
Austria’s polesitter Collin Veijer was reclared unfit following his highside in qualifying.
Where does that leave the championship?
Holgado still leads but remains on 161 points after his fall, with his advantage 𒊎cut to 13 points over Sasaki. Jaume Masia takes back over in third with 1🔥29 points after Oncu’s demotion with just a point between the pair.