The CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider will fight to get his seventh victory of the year from the second row

CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider David Alonso will face the Austrian GP race from the second row of the grid. The World Championship leader has set the sixth best time in qualifying and tomorrow he will fight to get back to the top of the podium. Alonso had always been among the two fastest in all the weekend's sessions. Despite this, in qualifying, the Colombian has been unable to replicate his times from practice and has finished two tenths off the poleman, Iván Ortolá. The Spanish rider, who has set a time of 1:40.057, will start from the first position for the second consecutive GP and will be accompanied on the front row by Joel Kelso and Collin Veijer. Alonso has already shown in the past that starting from the second row is not an impediment to fighting for victory. The Colombian knows that he has a good race pace and will fight to score his seventh win of the season.

His teammate Joel Esteban will start from eighteenth position after a bittersweet Saturday in the Red Bull Ring. Esteban has managed to get straight into Q2, fulfilling one of his objectives for the weekend. However, in the last practice session, he has crashed and this has conditioned his day. The rookie has had to go to the medical centre and, after a check-up, he has been declared fit. The CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team rider has been able to return to the track for qualifying, a session that he has contested sore and in which he has only been able to finish eighteenth. Tomorrow, Esteban will fight to come back from the sixth row of the grid and score points on a new track for him.

6th David Alonso 1:40.338 (+0.281): "We have a good pace for the race, we have been able to do a good job on the track. In qualifying we have tried a strategy that more or less has worked for us, but it has not been enough to be on the front row. We will start from sixth position, we will have to grit our teeth, but we are ready."

18th Joel Esteban 1:41.751 (+1.694): “It has been a difficult day due to a crash in the morning practice session. I had good pace, but when I was riding with a new tyre to enter to Q2, at the exit of the fourth corner, I have highsided and I have finished the practice session quite sore. Luckily, I am physically fine and I have also got straight to Q2. I have gone out on track in qualifying to recover my feelings with the bike. It has not been easy in such a short space of time and tomorrow we will have to start from eighteenth position, but we will go out with the desire to fight.”