2019 Buriram Moto3 Qualifying Result: First Time Tissot

Submitted by Zara Daniela on Sat, 2019-10-05 06:41

It was back to bright sunshine and all of the morning’s wet weather sorrows were quickly forgotten as the lightweight class was raring to head out for qualifying. Hot tarmac and barely any cloud awaited the first duel of the day and championship leader Lorenzo Dalla Porta was eager to attack the top of the timesheets from the off. The Italian led the way after the first run but the gaps were minimal and, as usual, it all came down to one final flying lap to the checkered flag, when rookie Celestino Vietti scored his first quality timepiece that comes with pole position.

The young Italian led the field by a tenth of a second after flying through Q1 and will share front row with the Spanish duo of Marcos Ramirez and Albert Arenas. Kaito Toba went under the radar for much of the weekend but found his feet in Q2 and opens the second row of the grid. Alonso Lopez put in a solid performance for fifth grid position, while Aron Canet went from provisional pole to the back of row two in the blink of an eye.

Friday fast man Andrea Migno heads the third row of the grid, half a second off pole. While most of the field did their usual cat and mouse game out of the pits, Gabriel Rodrigo took an alternative approach and rode an extra couple of laps on his own to take provisional pole but the Gresini rider ran out of steam and was eventually pushed back to eighth. Tony Arbolino completes row three, although the Italian might be looking at a potential penalty after messing about a bit too much and too slowly in Q2. Dalla Porta went from hero to zero, the championship leader failing to improve on his early session-topping time and dropping all the way down to row four, where he will be accompanied by Tatsuki Suzuki and Dennis Foggia.

There were a handful of riders going into qualifying with grid penalties for irresponsible riding on Friday, the first of which was Jakub Kornfeil. The Czech rider couldn’t really limit the damage so a 12-place grid penalty will apply to an already lowly 15th spot. Ayumu Sasaki, Filip Salac and Riccardo Rossi will share the back of the grid for the start of tomorrow’s race.

Results:

Pos.	Num.	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap 1st	Prev.
1	13	Celestino VIETTI	KTM	1'42.599
2	42	Marcos RAMIREZ	Honda	1'42.717	0.118	0.118
3	75	Albert ARENAS	KTM	1'42.751	0.152	0.034
4	27	Kaito TOBA	Honda	1'42.897	0.298	0.146
5	21	Alonso LOPEZ	Honda	1'42.967	0.368	0.070
6	44	Aron CANET	KTM	1'43.008	0.409	0.041
7	16	Andrea MIGNO	KTM	1'43.173	0.574	0.165
8	19	Gabriel RODRIGO	Honda	1'43.185	0.586	0.012
9	14	Tony ARBOLINO	Honda	1'43.226	0.627	0.041
10	48	Lorenzo DALLA PORTA	Honda	1'43.304	0.705	0.078
11	24	Tatsuki SUZUKI	Honda	1'43.343	0.744	0.039
12	7	Dennis FOGGIA	KTM	1'43.380	0.781	0.037
13	17	John MCPHEE	Honda	1'43.398	0.799	0.018
14	12	Filip SALAC	KTM	1'43.446	0.847	0.048
15	84	Jakub KORNFEIL	KTM	1'43.489	0.890	0.043
16	25	Raul FERNANDEZ	KTM	1'43.534	0.935	0.045
17	76	Makar YURCHENKO	KTM	1'43.842	1.243	0.308
18	71	Ayumu SASAKI	Honda	1'44.251	1.652	0.409
		Q1 Results:
Q2	13	Celestino VIETTI	KTM	1'43.579
Q2	17	John MCPHEE	Honda	1'43.613	0.034	0.034
Q2	25	Raul FERNANDEZ	KTM	1'43.790	0.211	0.177
Q2	12	Filip SALAC	KTM	1'43.843	0.264	0.053
19	10	Julian Jose GARCIA	Honda	1'43.843	0.264
20	54	Riccardo ROSSI	Honda	1'43.888	0.309	0.045
21	11	Sergio GARCIA	Honda	1'44.034	0.455	0.146
22	69	Tom BOOTH-AMOS	KTM	1'44.077	0.498	0.043
23	82	Stefano NEPA	KTM	1'44.142	0.563	0.065
24	79	Ai OGURA	Honda	1'44.146	0.567	0.004
25	53	Deniz ONCU	KTM	1'44.174	0.595	0.028
26	32	Davide PIZZOLI	KTM	1'44.368	0.789	0.194
27	22	Kazuki MASAKI	KTM	1'44.491	0.912	0.123
28	40	Darryn BINDER	KTM	1'44.703	1.124	0.212
29	3	Kevin ZANNONI	Honda	1'44.863	1.284	0.160