Qatar GP • domenica

Doha, 6 March 2022 : the curtain falls on the electrifying Losail circuit for the Angeluss MTA Racing after the conclusion of the debut race in the Moto3 world championship.

Iván Ortolá , after the penalties confirmed in the morning, the traffic light goes out from the seventh box, and like a splinter he immediately slips into fourth, behind respectively Sasaki, Migno and Masia, hard bones and very experts in the category.

For Ortolà it is not enough, he feels good and wants more, so he fights with his fellow countryman, placing himself in third position and making the public dream. It looks like a missile stuck to Migno’s rear, but just after the first laps it is crushed by the two factory KTMs and the situation becomes tense. However, the incredible tenacity of the Angeluss MTA Racing driver demonstrates his maturity in fighting to remain hooked to the leading group, even if the other experienced drivers begin to pull him off until he takes him to the ninth position, where he fights with Artigas and Yamanaka, remaining in the wake by Moreira.

After accessing a few red helmets in the first sectors he manages to recover the Japanese and put himself in front of the Brazilian, his opponent already last year, and it is precisely while he is in sixth position that, following a race contact managed impeccably thanks to an innate mastery in being able to control his now broken bike, he retreats to tenth place, then snatched on the last lap by Artigas, forcing the Spaniard of Angeluss MTA Racing to close his first Grand Prix in eleventh place . Not a bad debut, but we are working to improve speed and fight for the first places.

“I finished the first race of the world championship and I am very happy with all the work done. At the start of the race I felt really good in the leading group, but as the laps progressed, the bike didn’t accelerate well, now let’s see what happened. In any case, we need this to learn and to be the first race in the world championship, I’m happy to have finished 11th. Now I know that I can be there and I will do everything to get to the podium. “

Also for Stefano Nepa the first Grand Prix of the season ended in points, in fact, starting from the sixteenth position he immediately manages to recover up to the exhaust of Holgado with whom he fights for the whole race, despite some difficulties accused in the last sectors that lead him to slow down the pace. Despite this, the cunning of the Abruzzese driver is shown in an attempt to exploit the wake of his opponents Guevara and Foggia, so as to be able to recover up to the fourteenth position on the penultimate lap, then winning the thirteenth place in the sprint, keeping the fierce Holgado behind. .

“Today we tried to do the last set up to improve the fast corners and sector three and four, but we still had some difficulties in the race. In any case, the Warm Up gave me a lot of confidence and it is perhaps for this reason that I managed to start well in such a difficult race given Sasaki’s incredible pace. It was not the result we expected, but for the feeling I have it is excellent. Now let’s look ahead, work on the problems that exist and think about Mandalika. “

Alessandro Tonucci , Team Manager of Angeluss MTA Racing, is happy to have brought home these results, because “Ortolà is really in shape and we can think we can safely aim for the podium. I’m sorry he dropped from the second half of the race onwards, now let’s see what happened, but it reassures me a lot to have seen him fight for the Top5. I’m also happy with Nepa’s comeback, he could have attached more to the leading group at the start of the race, but overall he worked well. Both drivers are in the points, so for today part of the goal is achieved, but we already have to work for Indonesia. ”