The op📖ening day at Assen belonged to home rider Collin Veijer as finished Friday on top with a new lap record ahead of the Dutch Moto3💦 Grand Prix.

Thꦅe 19 year old from the Netherlands challenged himself on repeat for the best time lowering his own best, with a final super clean lap bringing a new record of 1m 40.259s on his Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP bike.

The lap came thanks to ✃a mix of the #95’s ability to lap solo, coupled with his track knowledge as the local rider for the roun♓d and showed great improvement after finishing the first practice in eighth.

The MT Helmets - MSI riders worked in tandem to pull themselves up the order with Ryusei Yamanaka leading around Ivan Orꦰtola, with the favour then returned. That took the Japanese rider to within 0.091s of the record session best, with Ortola third.

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Adrian Fernandez was one of the early pacesetters in P1 for Leopard on his way to setting the fourth best time, as comfortable in a crowd as he was solo. T♐he Spaniard placed just ahead of fellow countryman Jose Antonio Rueda, in fifth for Red Bull KTM Ajo.

Angel Piqueras was the best of the rooki✨es in sixth on the second Leopard entry, completing a strong opening day at ‘The Cathedral’ for the team after making a big step, having been down in 17th after the first session.

Joel Kelso was only just🀅 over half a second off the pace in seventh in a tight session for BOE Motorsports, with rookie Luca Lunetta eight fastest for SIC58 Squadra C🌠orse.

Perhaps the 🐠biggest surprise was the championship leaders both strugg✃ling to get inside the top ten.

David Alonso was on a high be🦹fore the three week spring break, with it almost impossible t🥃o take any session from the Colombian sensation.

Fourth in the earlier practice, which did not count towards the Q2 times, the CFMoto Gaviota GasGas Aspar rider was pushing hard 🎐to resume his spell at the top.

That left him looking stiff and running wide, with two falls in the second session. That left the #80𝔉 needing a solid late run to move him up from eleventh to ninth.

Daniel Holgado had been finding the practice sessions hard going but showed recen☂t improvements. The Red Bull GasGas Tech3 rider had his best effoꦦrt thwarted by traffic on track and was spun off his bike just before Alonso’s fall, leaving him to also need a strong final run to move into a late tenth.

The remaining progression plaꦜces overnight are held by Tatsuki Suzuki, Scott Ogden, Jacob Roulstone and Stefano✤ Nepa.

The day beꦉgan with the first free practice session for the class which saw Ivan Ortola on top in a MT Helmets -MSI 1-2 with Ryusei Yamanaka, with the Spaniard setting what was then a new lap record.

Alonso was fourth, behind Leopard’s Ad𓃲rian Fe🦹rnandez.

Scott Ogden was much improved o🧸n his trac🦂k return in sixth which gave the MLav rider something to build on in the afternoon.

There w🗹as a fall in FP for Taiyo Furusato at the turn five hairpin, he went on to finish 15th overall.