Dani Holgado adds the first pole of his career in Austria

Daniel Holgado has achieved the first pole of his sports career at the Austrian GP. The Spanish KTM rider stopped the clock in 1:41.234 , which has ensured that he will start from the preferred position in tomorrow’s race. He will be accompanied in the front row by Ayumu Sasaki and Deniz Öncü.

The qualifying practices began with the threat of rain. However, those drivers forced to go through Q1 (among which Tatsuki Suzuki, Andrea Migno or Ryusei Yamanaka stood out) did not show much hurry to get out on the track.

Only the young Joel Kelso did it, the only one to register a time in the first half of the session; and, if it had started to rain, they would hardly be able to beat it.

But that first position did not last long when the heavyweights came out. Migno and Suzuki worked hard to secure their place in Q2, but both ended up frustrated by the usual slipstream show .

Finally, Suzuki, Yamanaka, Kelso and Migno managed to move on to the fight for pole, leaving Iván Ortolá out by only 50 thousandths.

 

Unlike the first session, the drivers who took part in Q2 rushed out onto the track. Dennis Foggia was the first to lead the table, with a time of 1:41.600, but it didn’t take long for him to be beaten. Thus, Ayumu Sasaki reached the halfway point of training with the best time; in his first stint he stopped the clock in 1:41.224.

In that intermediate moment, Jaume Masia starred in the only crash of the training session, with a slight highside at the exit of turn 3 (very similar to the one he suffered this morning in FP3), without consequences.

Although the light-engined riders hurried at the start of practice, it took them a long time to get back on track. Finally, they did so with very few minutes remaining; so much so that there were pilots who ended up ‘catching’ the flag.

It was the case of names like Foggia, Suzuki or Yamanaka, who crossed the finish line with the session already over. This situation benefited drivers like Dani Holgado or Deniz Oncu, who completed a couple of fast laps and were able to improve their times.

The surprise came precisely with the second launched lap by Holgado, who took the first pole of his career with a time of 1:41.234 . He thus moved Sasaki (sanctioned with a double long lap ) to second position, while Oncu completed the front row of the grid.

Moto3 Q1 results at the 2022 Austrian GP

Cla	#	Pilot	Motorcycle	laps	Weather	Difference	Interval
1	twenty four	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	Five	1’41.977
2	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	KTM	Five	1’42.008	0.031	0.031
3	66	Joel Kelso	KTM	6	1’42.193	0.216	0.185
4	16	Andrea Migno	Honda	5	1’42.240	0.263	0.047
5	48	Ivan Ortola	KTM	5	1’42.290	0.313	0.050
6	72	Taiyo Furusato	Honda	Five	1’42.302	0.325	0.012
7	43	Xavier Artigas	CF MOTORCYCLE	5	1’42,353	0.376	0.051
8	31	Adrian Fernndez	KTM	5	1,42,510	0.533	0.157
9	20	Lorenzo Fallon	Honda	5	1’42,749	0.772	0.239
10	99	Carlos Dad	CF MOTORCYCLE	5	1’42.871	0.894	0.122
11	64	Mario Suryo Aji	Honda	5	1’42,908	0.931	0.037
12	9	Nicola Fabio	KTM	5	1’42.936	0.959	0.028
13	23	Elia Bartolini	KTM	5	1’42.969	0.992	0.033
14	70	Joshua Whatley	Honda	6	1’43.644	1.667	0.675
fifteen	67	alberto surra	Sling	5	1,43,666	1,689	0.022
16	22	Ana Carrasco	KTM	5	1’43.736	1.759	0.070
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Moto3 Q2 results at the 2022 Austrian GP

Cla	#	Pilot	Motorcycle	laps	Weather	Difference	Interval
1	96	Daniel Holgado	KTM	8	1,41,234
2	71	Ayumu Sasaki	Husqvarna	5	1’41,244	0.010	0.010
3	53	Deniz nc	KTM	7	1’41.379	0.145	0.135
4	54	Riccardo Rossi	Honda	7	1’41.506	0.272	0.127
5	7	Dennis Foggia	Honda	6	1’41.588	0.354	0.082
6	10	Diogo Moreira	KTM	7	1’41.627	0.393	0.039
7	twenty four	Tatsuki Suzuki	Honda	Five	1’41.638	0.404	0.011
8	28	Be Guevara	GAS	8	1’41,642	0.408	0.004
9	27	Kaito Toba	KTM	7	1’41.675	0.441	0.033
10	82	Stefano Nepa	KTM	5	1’41.714	0.480	0.039
11	11	Sergio Garcia Dols	GAS	7	1’41,772	0.538	0.058
12	5	James Masia	KTM	6	1,41,800	0.566	0.028
13	66	Joel Kelso	KTM	7	1’41.857	0.623	0.057
14	16	Andrea Migno	Honda	5	1’42.025	0.791	0.168
15	6	Ryusei Yamanaka	KTM	Five	1’42.112	0.878	0.087
16	44	David Muoz	KTM	6	1’42.519	1.285	0.407
17	19	Scott Ogden	Honda	5	1’42.683	1.449	0.164
18	17	John McPhee	Husqvarna	4	1’42.951	1.717	0.268
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