Ayumu Sasaki took advantage of an error out front from his teammate and then clung on to his lead, with a tight defensive run through the final corner of the Ricardo Tormo circuit bringing a first win of 2023 in the Valenican Moto3 Grand Prix, the final🌠 round.

The early part of the race had belonged to his Liqui Mol❀y Intact GP teammate Collin Ve𓄧ijer.

The rider from the Netherlands started from pole, but had a crash on the sighting lap, leading to damage to his bike and helmet. The team mechanics franticallyཧ got to work to return him to the front of the grid, where he lead𒐪 comfortably until an error on lap sixteen allowed Sasaki through.

From there on the Japanese rider took꧅ control of the lead group, back to fiv🍸e as the in-fighting had brought Deniz Oncu back into play.

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It all came down to the final corner. After several changes in the tussling behind, David Alonso had worked his way b✅ack into position for a last corner lunge, a placed where he had been ve♛ry successful with overtakes in the race.

After a much more feisty, angry performa🎀nce, an elated Sasaki punched the air as he lead over the line by just 0.082s in his final Moto3 race before his move up to Moto2.

The result brings the Hꦑusqvarna outfit the teaꦦm title in the lightweight class.

David Alonso, the rookie of the year in the class, took the chequered flag second, his eig🍌hth podium in a stellar roo♔kie season with Valresa GasGas Aspar.

Following a strong start from sixth on the grid to feature in the lead group, Ivan Ortola fought for positon with Veijer for the final podium slot, his third rostrum visit of the year, but his first not to stand on the toꦯp spot.

Veijer was cle﷽arly disappointed to miss out in fourth after leading for so long. Behind, after a comeback when forced wide by Alonso earlier in the race, Oncu looked relieved to finish, still sore and in pain from his practice fall and running on determination to sign out o🧜f Moto3 with a strong performance, before he too takes a seat in Moto2 next season.

Joel Kelso had gotten a strong start from 🎶fourth but once passed by Ortola and Alonso he never recovered. In a duo on track with Jose Antonio Rueda the Red Bull KTM Ajo rookie eventually found a way past too, leaving the CFMoto rider seventh as the team exits Moto3.

Holgado fights back for eighth.

The second CFMoto Pruestel racing bike, with Xavier Artigas aboard, cut across track in a wild pass clipping♊ the handlebars of Diogo Moreira on the opening lap, taking both him and Vincente Perez out of the race. Daniel Holgado was also caught up in the incident, doing his best to avoid a fall he dropped to 19th.

Cutting his way forward with a series of hard but fair moves, the Red Bull KTM Tech3 rider was faster than the lead group over the closing laps as he climbed to eighth in an impres🌃sive run.

David Munoz latched onto the back of the flying Spaniard, to finish ninth for BOE Motorsports, with Ryu🐲sei Yamanaka following to com💃plete the top ten on the second GasGas Aspar bike.

They pulled clear of Taiyo Furusato, who was eleventh for Honda Team Asia, under pressure from Filippo Farioli, who had to settle for twelfth for Red Bull KTM Tech3ಞ. 

Champion Masia finishes 13th.

Masia struggled from eleventh on the grid to 22nd in last years Valencia race and ag꧟ain had a race to forget. With the championship sealed the result was thankfully academic for the Leopard rider as he dropped back over the race, with 🌜Adrian Fernandez directly behind him for much of the distance.

The Spaniard celebrated with the h𓄧ome crowd, but had continued to move backward, with a late push moving him from 15th to 13th at the finish.

The remaining points on offer went to hi♛s teammate Fernandez in 14th and Stefano 🥃Nepa in 15th for the Angeluss MTA Team.

Romano Fenati just missed out in 16th on his fina♊l Moto3 run out with the Snipers team.

Crashes, injuries and replacements

Vinceꦫnte Perez finished his final race filling in for Ana Carrasco at BOE Motorsports in the gravel in the early fall with Moreira. Artigas served a double long lap penalty for causing the fa♔ll, finishing 19th.

Lorenzo Fellon was the only other ridꦿer not to finish.

David Almansa started the weeked for Finetwork I𒆙ntactGP as a wildcard. By P1’s end it was clear he was too unwell to c💃ontinue, so Marcos Ruda (22nd) took his place.

There wereꦅ no VisionTrack riders in the season closin🐲g grand prix.

Joshua Whatley, during his fall in Qatar on the opening lap, was hit by another rider, leaving him w🌊ith a broken tib𒈔ia and fibula.

P3 saw a huge crash for Scott Ogden, with the British ri༒der landing on his shoulder. Ogden was declared unfit before qualifying with a dislocated shoulder.

Where does that leave the championship?

A win for Sasaki se💝es the final championship gap at just six points. Masia’s final champion’s total stands at 274 after picking u෴p three points, with Sasaki’s win moving him to 268.

David Alonso secured third overall with his performance, with a final 245 to his♑ name.