2022 Sepang Moto3 Qualifying Result: Game On For Second Best

By Zara Daniela | Sat, 22/10/2022 - 05:33

Despite the rain flag scare earlier today, the lightweight class escaped any serious weather worries and fought for the penultimate pole position of the season under clear blue skies. Although Sasaki and Garcia made their pole ambitions known, the honour eventually went to Dennis Foggia, the Italian posting a new all time lap record for Moto3 around Sepang on his final flying lap. He was joined at the front by newly crowned world champion Izan Guevara, who was two tenths of a second slower, while teammate Sergio Garcia made a slow start but climbed from 17th to 3rd in the closing stages, to fill the front row of the grid.

Jaume Masia settled for the second row by seven hundredths of a second, joined by teammate Dani Holgado and veteran Andrea Migno, while Ayumu Sasaki dropped to 7th position in the closing stages, failing to improve on his early benchmark. Tatsuki Suzuki joins his compatriot on row three, as does Riccardo Rossi, the trio around half a second off pole. FP3 leader David Muñoz settled for a top 10 and opening fourth row from fellow rookie Diogo Moreira and the more experienced Stefano Nepa.

Q1 leader Ryusei Yamanaka secured a fourth row start ahead of rookies Ivan Ortolá and Taiyo Furusato, while the CIP duo of Joel Kelso and Kaito Toba sandwich Carlos Tatay on row five – the Spaniard only posting a couple of lap times before a crash ended his session early. The more unpleasant surprises of Q1 came from an underwhelming John McPhee qualifying 22nd and a costly crash from Deniz Öncü leaving him 25th on the grid.

Results:

Pos No. Rider Bike Time Diff Prev
1 7 Dennis Foggia Honda 2:11.411    
2 28 Izan Guevara GasGas 2:11.635 0.224 0.224
3 11 Sergio Garcia GasGas 2:11.674 0.263 0.039
4 5 Jaume Masia KTM 2:11.751 0.340 0.077
5 96 Daniel Holgado KTM 2:11.836 0.425 0.085
6 16 Andrea Migno Honda 2:11.843 0.432 0.007
7 71 Ayumu Sasaki Husqvarna 2:11.907 0.496 0.064
8 24 Tatsuki Suzuki Honda 2:11.934 0.523 0.027
9 54 Riccardo Rossi Honda 2:11.960 0.549 0.026
10 44 David Muñoz KTM 2:12.051 0.640 0.091
11 10 Diogo Moreira KTM 2:12.136 0.725 0.085
12 82 Stefano Nepa KTM 2:12.403 0.992 0.267
13 6 Ryusei Yamanaka KTM 2:12.432 1.021 0.029
14 48 Ivan Ortola KTM 2:12.441 1.030 0.009
15 72 Taiyo Furusato Honda 2:12.517 1.106 0.076
16 66 Joel Kelso KTM 2:12.612 1.201 0.095
17 99 Carlos Tatay CFMoto 2:13.362 1.951 0.750
18 27 Kaito Toba KTM 2:13.662 2.251 0.300
    Q1 Results:        
Q2 6 Ryusei Yamanaka KTM 2:12.632    
Q2 27 Kaito Toba KTM 2:12.677 0.045 0.045
Q2 72 Taiyo Furusato Honda 2:12.819 0.187 0.142
Q2 66 Joel Kelso KTM 2:12.903 0.271 0.084
19 31 Adrian Fernandez KTM 2:12.909 0.277 0.006
20 43 Xavier Artigas CFMoto 2:12.944 0.312 0.035
21 63 Syarifuddin Azman Honda 2:13.091 0.459 0.147
22 17 John McPhee Husqvarna 2:13.240 0.608 0.149
23 9 Nicola Carraro KTM 2:13.241 0.609 0.001
24 23 Elia Bartolini KTM 2:13.403 0.771 0.162
25 53 Deniz Öncü KTM 2:13.444 0.812 0.041
26 67 Alberto Surra Honda 2:13.471 0.839 0.027
27 20 Lorenzo Fellon Honda 2:13.585 0.953 0.114
28 22 Ana Carrasco KTM 2:14.031 1.399 0.446
29 64 Mario Suryo Aji Honda 2:14.260 1.628 0.229
30 19 Scott Ogden Honda 2:14.802 2.170 0.542
31 70 Joshua Whatley Honda 2:15.019 2.387 0.217
2022
19
Moto3
Sepang, Malaysia
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