Spain’s Gonzalo Sanchez took his fourth FIM Yamaha R3 bLU cRU World Cup victory of the season on Saturday, pulling a spot on the chasing pack to win by nearly three seconds forward of Marc Vich and Christian Pucci.
The sphere of 23 riders took to the San Marinese circuit through the hottest a part of the day when air temperatures had been at 31 levels Celsius and observe temperatures at 45 levels. Japan’s Shoma Yamane made the preliminary launch from pole place, however he was shortly joined by Italian wildcard Gianmaria Ibidi and Sanchez. Earlier than the top of the primary lap, the 15-year-old Spaniard had made his transfer to the entrance, a place he held till the top of the 10-lap race. As Sanchez pulled away, a giant group of riders fought it out for the remaining podium locations.
Brazil’s Eduardo Burr had been within the combat however a double-long lap penalty as a result of a bounce begin pushed him down the order to twenty second, this initially left the combat to Marc Vich and Mario Salles, however the house riders had been fast to climb by way of the order. Wildcard Pucci confirmed his energy all through the race and went on to assert a powerful third place. Vich held on to an necessary second, which retains him near Sanchez within the championship standings. Alessandro di Persio pushed arduous to set the quickest lap of the race, however narrowly missed out on the rostrum in fourth, Salles accomplished the Prime 5.
Race 2 will begin at 16:15 CET on Sunday sixteenth June and you may watch it reside on the Yamaha Racing YouTube channel.
Gonzalo Sanchez: “At this time I received, although yesterday I didn’t really feel superb with the bike. My workforce and I labored actually arduous along with the Yamaha workers, and I spent a very long time finding out the information to search out the place I may enhance, all of this paid off and I took one other victory – 4 out of 5 sounds nice! I’m protecting my ft on the bottom and never taking something without any consideration as a result of I do know tomorrow will likely be one other massive combat. An enormous due to my household and to Yamaha, and in addition to the followers on the circuit – I’m so grateful to all of them!”
