CEV: Skinner unlucky as Dalla Porta extends title lead

Scottish teenager Rory Skinner has had an unlucky weekend in the Moto3 Junior World Championship at Spain’s Albacete circuit after a strong comeback was thwarted in the closing stages of Sunday’s race.

Struggling in qualifying but making big progre3ss in the race to come from 23^rd to the battle for 13^th, a bump from another rider in the closing stages of the race left the 14 year old unlucky to come home in 19^th.

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“The weekend went well, and qualifying was not representative of how hard we pushed. Qualifying, in which the top 14 riders were covered by only a second, was disappointing but the race was going well for me.

“With about three laps left, another rider came up my inside into turn nine and touched my leg. It stayed there and pushed me off the racing line, on to the kerb and finally into the gravel.

“I managed to get the bike stopped and re-join, but the damage had been done. It’s so close in this championship and it’s teaching me more and more every weekend.”

Meanwhile, at the front. Italian rider Lorenzo Dalla Porta extended his championship lead further by taking a commanding win from Spaniard Marcos Ramirez Fernandez and Japanese racer Kaito Toba.

Dalla Porta, who scored an impressive top ten in the Moto3 championship at Assen while deputising for the injured Jorge Navarro, now leads Ramirez by 36 points with five races remaining.

 

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