Moto3 Indonesia: First pole for Tatay, home hero Aji on front row.
Carlos Tatay rose to the top in Q2 aඣs he took charge of the newest track to join th🌞e MotoGP calendar, the Pertamina Mandalika circuit in Lombok, ahead of the Indonesian Moto3 race, round two of the championship.
The Spaniard made his mark rising to the top of the🎀 timesheets with six minutes of the session remaining, displacing the early benchmark of Mario Aji.
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Working in conjunctio♑n with his team-mate Xavier Artigas, he then lowered his time to 1m 41.232s on his final run.
It also marks the first pole positi🐷on for the new CFMoto Racing PruestelGP team.
Arriving on top form after being the top rookie in Qatar, finishing the opening race in an🦩 impressive sixth, Diogo Moreira was once again the cream of the new talent. The Brazilian took secඣond on the grid for MT Helmets-MSI (KTM), just 0.083s off the top time.
The all teenage front row is completed by fellow rookie, home rider Aji. The Honda Team Asia rider was the only one on track with previous knowledge of the circuit and used that to his advantage, surviving running wide early on in Q1 as he pushed to fin👍d the limit of the track, co๊ming through the first session second .
The Indonesian will start the first grand prix in his countr🌠y for 25 years from third on the grid after an electric performance in Lombok. Aji becomes the first Indonesian rider to secure a podium in any class of M💙otoGP racing.
Te𒐪amwork saw Artigas pick up fourth, with Qatar race winner Andrea Migno fifth. The Rivacold Snipers man had looked good ahead of qualifying topping both the fastest FP2 and wet FP3 session.
Pre-season favourite Dennis Fo🍒ggia sits in sixth on the grid after his first fall from the Leopard this season.
Sergio Garcia recovered from his early Q1 spill to top that session and move on to Q2 where he took seventh for Gaviota GasGas Aspaꦿr.
His team-mate Izan Guevara, who was on pole 🦄in Lusail before receiving a penalty, is next on the grid in eighth.
Deniz Oncu lines up ninth for Redᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Bull KTM 🐲Tech3, with Sterilgarda Husqvarna Max Racing’s Ayumu Sasaki completing the top ten.
With a new tra𓆉ck and changeable weather proving great levellers Scott Ogden was able to secure a direct slot in Q2 after no improveꦡments were to come after a huge downpour before FP3.
The British rider had secured ninth on Friday with Michael Laverty’s VisionTrack Racing Team but fell at the start of Q2 along with Riccardo Rꦡossi. The team worked hard to get Ogden back on track but just missed out📖 on a final flying lap by seconds, leaving him 18th.
Team-mate Joshua Whatley is 𒅌27th on the grid after learning and following in the group♛ to cut his time.
He lines up ahead of podium finisher at the first roꦦund Kaito Toba.ඣ A series of crashes over the weekend so far had seemed to dent the confidence of the CIP Green Power rider. Another fall in the first qualifying session sees him line up last.
John McPhee is absent for the race weekend after fracturing two vertebrae in a training accident. Taiyo🍬 Furusato also remains absent through injury.
