ROUND 3 / MARCH 28-30, 2025
CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS / AUSTIN, TEXAS
ROAD RACE I FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
P94
(Aspar KTM). Making his World
Championship debut due to only
turning the legal age to race on
March 19, the Spaniard qualified
second, led the opening laps,
and scrapped with preseason
favorite Angel Piqueras (MSI
KTM) until the end. It was a
sign of yet another new excit
-
ing name fresh off the Spanish
conveyor belt.
Quiles
led the opening lap, but
once Rueda seized control on
lap two, the victory was never in
question. David Munoz (Intact
-
GP KTM) recreated his Thailand
stupidity, crashing
out of second
at turn one on the fourth lap as
he attempted to give chase.
That promoted Joel Kelso
(MTA KTM) to second, who
year's home GP heroics as he
came home in last position,
over a lap behind.
Dixon (59) leads the champion
-
ship from Canet (46) by 13 points,
with Gonzalez's
(45) disastrous
day costing him the lead. He slips
to third, 14 points back.
Moto3
Jose Antonio Rueda (Ajo KTM)
is making a habit of this. The
Spaniard racked up his second
dominant win of the year by
leading every lap bar one and
never looking hassled as he won
by 2.3 seconds.
Yet even the championship
leader had to share the spotlight
with compatriot Max Quiles
ing stages did they start lapping
faster than the leaders on wets.
Their humiliation was com
-
plete on lap eight when Dixon
lapped them
all. By then, he was
fending off Arbolino's challenge
after the Italian passed Lopez
for second on lap six, albeit four
seconds back. And soon Arbo
-
lino eased off, allowing the Brit
to
claim his sixth Moto2 victory
by 4.1 seconds. Lopez was third,
12 seconds back, with Aron
Canet (Fantic Kalex), Izan Gue-
vara (Pramac Boscoscuro) and
Ivan
Ortola (MSI Boscoscuro)
nearly half a minute in arrears.
Joe Roberts (American Rac
-
ing) was another of the names
to
go with slicks. The Califor-
nian was unable to repeat last
Jake Dixon
went wire to
wire in Moto2.
