The Moto3™ class gave the go to the most-awaited day of the weekend on Sunday morning as they took their fourth start of the season at the Circuito de Jerez - Angel Nieto. After a chaotic qualifying day filled with crashes, Daniel Holgado and Jacob Roulstone fought through pain today to score important points for the team, as they claimed 7th and 12th of the Gran Premio de España, allowing the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 squad to head to their home Grand Prix in Le Mans as championship leaders.

After his crash in the outing lap in qualifying, Daniel Holgado was forced to start from the eighteenth position on the grid. The start was going to be tricky, but the #96 managed to negotiate a decent start, as he progressed to P13 in one lap, and soon after he moved to 12th behind Angel Piqueras, his rival from Austin. He did not stay too long behind the rookie as he progressed to P10 in the same lap, and then made a move on Adrian Fernandez to sit in 9th as he headed to lap 3. Meanwhile, title rival David Alonso had crashed in the opening lap, leaving Colin Veijer to sit in the lead of the race. As the leading group had made a two second-gap already, there was Nicola Carraro and Stefano Nepa from MTA ahead of Dani. He overtook the first one quickly, but Nepa was a bit more difficult to handle and he remained for a while behind the MTA rider. In the leading group, Joel Esteban and Joel Keslo had lost some ground on the now front four, while behind the battle for 7th was getting more intense, as Dani continued to pressure Nepa, while Fernandez was close behind. However, that also meant they were losing time on the front, with a 2.7 secs gap to the race leader. Eventually, Holgado found the right moment in lap 12 to make a move on the MTA rider, and Fernandez followed too, and overtook Dani. He remained at the 8th place while the leader of his group became the #31. Meanwhile, Alonso had already made his way back to P12.  In the final lap, Holgado made a successful move on Fernandez to gain one more position, but a late crash from Esteban just ahead disturbed him, and he saw the checkered flag in P7. Dani scored 9 points allowing him to retain the championship lead, six points clear from David Alonso.

Saturday was not ideal either for Jacob Roulstone who suffered two difficult crashes, and he headed into the race starting from P17. The body felt painful, but the young rookie decided to fight through it on his first Moto3™ race in his adoptive country. When the lights went out, he gained two positions, and then progressed to the point-scoring positions two laps later on, to sit behind Taiyo Furusato. The pain appeared manageable as he made a move on the number 72, to progress to P14, and later on he progressed to P12 as he had settled into a decent race pace. However, on lap 12, we saw the Australian rider drop positions and go through a loss of rhythm, but he did not give up and progressively made his way back to 13th. The late crash of Esteban offered him the 12th position, a great achievement for Jacob who showed today that he was a fighter! The rookie has scored points every weekend so far, and he will for sure want to do it again as the team will head next to Le Mans for the French Grand Prix. Before that, the Red Bull GASGAS Tech3 squad stays in Jerez for the Official Moto3™ Jerez Test, on Tuesday 30th April.