Under skies that were as mild as ever at Le Mans, Antonelli snatched the victory in a particularly tight Moto3 qualifying session with the top five within a tenth of each other. The Ongetta rider is ahead of KTM official and championship leader Brad Binder. Canet completes the first line.
Un Canet who raced on the Bugatti track last year in the junior championship of the category, so well that he put his benchmarks to good use. fenati is fifth ahead of a teammate Open up who fell heavily two minutes from the checkered flag. The find of Valentino Rossi got up in pain, holding her left wrist which then seemed to get better.
Guevara is seventh and precedes the first Frenchman, eighth, Fabio Quartararo which fell at the end of the financial year. Pawi, the hero of Argentina, is in the top 10 closed by By Giannantonio whose best qualification until then was twenty-second place.
The other tricolors are further away, however, with an honorable fifteenth time ofAlexis Masbou. The disappointment comes from Jules Danilo. Brilliant third yesterday, he fell five minutes from the end of hostilities and had to settle for an anonymous twenty-seventh time. The tricolor is suffering from an ankle but will be at the start tomorrow. Boulom is twenty-ninth. The Sunday race will start at 11:00 a.m.
Le Mans, Moto3, Qualifying: Chronos
1. Niccolo Antonelli
ITA Ongetta-Rivacold (Honda) 1m 42.756s
2. Brad Binder RSA Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 1m 42.823s
3. Aron canet SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 (Honda) 1m 42.825s
4. Jorge Navarro SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 (Honda) 1m 42.842s
5. Roman Fenati ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (KTM) 1m 42.865s
6. Nicholas Bulega ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (KTM) 1m 42.888s
7. Juanfran Guevara SPA RBA Racing Team (KTM) 1m 43.084s
8. fabio quartararo FRA Leopard Racing (KTM) 1m 43.092s
9. Khairul Idham Pawi MAL Honda Team Asia (Honda) 1m 43.106s
10. Fabio DiGiannantonio ITA Gresini Racing Moto3 (Honda)
1m 43.198s
11. Jakub Kornfeil CZE Drive M7 SIC Racing Team (Honda)
1m 43.214s
12. Livio Law BEL RW Racing GP BV (Honda) 1m 43.224s
13. Tatsuki suzuki JPN CIP-Unicom Starker (Mahindra) 1m 43.275s
14. Andrea Locatelli ITA Leopard Racing (KTM) 1m 43.330s
15. Alexis Masbou FRA Peugeot MC Saxoprint (Peugeot) 1m 43.353s
16. Hiroki Ono JPN Honda Team Asia (Honda) 1m 43.376s
17. Andrea Migno ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (KTM) 1m 43.448s
18. Philipp Oettl GER Schedl GP Racing (KTM) 1m 43.458s
19. Francis Bagnaia ITA ASPAR Mahindra Team Moto3 (Mahindra) 1m 43.496s
20. gabriel rodrigo ARG RBA Racing Team (KTM) 1m 43.643s
21. Will Bendsneyder NED Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 1m 43.687s
22. Darryn binder RSA Platinum Bay Real Estate (Mahindra)
1m 43.725s
23. George Martin SPA ASPAR Mahindra Team Moto3 (Mahindra)
1m 43.732s
24. Joan mir SPA Leopard Racing (KTM) 1m 43.766s
25. John mcphee GBR Peugeot MC Saxoprint (Peugeot) 1m 43.767s
26. Karel Hanika CZE Platinum Bay Real Estate (Mahindra)
1m 43.807s
27. Jules Danilo FRA Ongetta-Rivacold (Honda) 1m 44.056s
28. Stefano Valtulini ITA 3570 Team Italia (Mahindra) 1m 44.214s
29. Enzo Boulom FRA Procercasa – 42 Motorsport (KTM) 1m 44.314s
30. Maria Herrera SPA MH6 Team (KTM) 1m 44.378s
31. Adam Norrodin MAL Drive M7 SIC Racing Team (Honda) 1m 45.207s
32. Lorenzo Petrarca ITA 3570 Team Italia (Mahindra) 1m 45.526s
33. Fabio Spiranelli ITA CIP-Unicom Starker (Mahindra) 1m 45.603s
