David Alonso, already Moto3 champion, starts leading the Australian GP

As the forecasts announced on the previous day, the first round of Moto3 free practice was already held with the asphalt completely wet from the rain, which made many riders take it a little calmly before going out on the track.

The new world champion, the Colombian David Alonso, was one of the last to take to the track, while the fastest in those adverse initial conditions was the Spanish Ángel Piqueras, with a time of 1:48.044. It didn’t take long for Piqueras to be beaten by a series of drivers, such as David Alonso himself, the Italian Matteo Bertelle, or the also Spanish Adrián Fernández (Honda), later surpassed by the ‘local idol’ of the category, the Australian Joel Kelso ( KTM).

But as the Moto3 riders became accustomed to the track conditions, the records, within the existing conditions, dropped rapidly, until David Alonso achieved much more ‘demanding’ marks for his rivals, of 1:45.391 first. and 1:45.185 later, and still with more than a quarter of an hour of session ahead.

The drivers in the small category were not exempt from some scares, such as the one carried out by David Alonso himself in turn four, who knew how to save with skill to immediately enter his workshop to ‘cool down’ his spirits, while not the Spanish was so lucky Xabi Zurutuza (KTM), who ended up on the ground although he was able to recover the bike and continue the round after repairing it, although he ended up rolling on the ground again in turn one of the Australian layout.

Already in the final stretch, David Alonso did not miss the opportunity to seal his dominance by setting a new fastest lap of the session, lapping in 1:44.888, with just one tenth of a second over Ángel Piqueras, almost six tenths of a second over Bertelle and already with more than eight tenths of a second compared to Stefano Nepa (KTM), Collin Veijer (Husqvarna), who ran out of gas in the middle of the circuit, and Adrián Fernández.