Sandro Cortese takes victory in wet/dry Sachsenring thriller
Published on 08 Jul 2012 by Toni M.
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Today’s Moto3 race at Sachsenring was probably one of the toughest races that the lower class has had so far this season.The race was delayed for 25 minutes as a battering rainstorm hit the circuit flooding it. After waiting for the rain to abate, the race started with all the riders on rain tires.
However the race was 2 in one, with wet weather specialists like Adrian Martin and Jack Miller leading the race with Louis Rossi, Luis Salom and Brand Binder following until a dry racing line started forming and flying up the field came both Alexis Masbou and pole sitter Sandro Cortesewho were both outside the top five until the conditions slowly improved.
The two, Masbou ahead of Cortese, charged to make up the massive six seconds that separated them from the lead group and two laps later caught them. One swooping lap later Masbou grabbed the lead, with Cortese following him but they couldn’t yet escape as a seven way battle began but as the sun began shining further improving the track conditions the two broke away with only Luis Salom able to hold their pace as everyone’s rain tires began to suffer and Cortese began searching for some wet spots too cool them down.
With three laps left in the race Cortese grabbed the lead from Masbou and in the penultimate lap set his fastest race lap that would let him keep the Carretta Technology rider at bay at take the victory - his second this season and also grab the lead in the standings as Maverick Vinales could only finish in 17th after losing a four-way battle.
Masbou with his second place took his first ever GP podium, while a disappointed Luis Salom took third and boiling over engine for the effort, and losing a second engine in two races. Australian Jack Miller took fourth after Rossi crashed out, while Efren Vazquez and Zulfahmi Khairuddin were fifth and sixth respectively.
Hector Faubel rode to seventh and he fought back to the position after having had to start in the pitlane when his Kalex FTM stalled on the starting grid.
Wildcard Luca Grünwald took 8th graced with this position after Louis Rossi, Brad Binder and Adrian Martin who lead the race early on, crashed out. Arthur Sissis came in ninth followed by Jakub Kornfeil who was fast all weekend but ended up closing out the top ten and more than 29 seconds from Cortese.
Moto3 Sachsenring Race Results:
01- Sandro Cortese – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – 27 laps in 45’36.868
02- Alexis Masbou – Caretta Technology – Honda NSF250R – + 0.635
03- Luis Salom – RW Racing GP – KALEX KTM – + 3.998
04- Jack Miller – Caretta Technology – Honda NSF250R – + 4.051
05- Efren Vazquez – JHK T-Shirt LaGlisse – FTR Honda M312 – + 12.119
06- Zulfahmi Khairuddin – AirAsia SIC Ajo – KTM M32 – + 25.174
07- Hector Faubel – Aspar Team Moto3 – KALEX KTM – + 25.499
08- Luca Grünwald – Freudenberg Racing Team – Honda NSF250R – + 26.087
09- Arthur Sissis – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – + 29.675
10- Jakub Kornfeil – Redox Ongetta Centro Seta – FTR Honda M312 – + 29.891
11- Toni Finsterbusch – Cresto Guide MZ Racing – Honda NSF250R – + 33.178
12- Niccolò Antonelli – San Carlo Gresini Moto3 – FTR Honda M312 – + 42.858
13- Alan Techer – Technomag CIP TSR – TSR3 Honda – + 1’02.653
14- Niklas Ajo – TT Motion Events Racing – KTM M32 – + 1’10.253
15- Simone Grotzkyj Giorgi – Ambrogio NEXT Racing – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 1’10.447
16- Alessandro Tonucci – Team Italia FMI – FTR Honda M312 – + 1’10.640
17- Maverick Vinales – Blusens Avintia – FTR Honda M312 – + 1’11.122
18- Danny Webb – Mahindra Racing – Mahindra MGP-3O – + 1’11.306
19- Miguel Oliveira – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 1’18.878
20- Alex Rins – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 1’18.957
21- Isaac Vinales – Ongetta Centro Seta – FTR Honda M312 – 1 lap
22- Luigi Morciano – Ioda Team Italia – Ioda TR002 – 1 lap
23- Kenta Fujii – Technomag CIP TSR – TSR3 Honda – 1 lap
24- Romano Fenati – Team Italia FMI – FTR Honda M312 – 1 lap
25- Ivan Moreno – Andalucia JHK LaGlisse – FTR Honda M312 – 1 lap
26- Kevin Hanus – Thomas Sabo GP Team – Honda NSF250R – 1 lap
27- Giulian Pedone – Ambrogio NEXT Racing – Suter Honda MMX3 – 3 laps
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