Máximo Quiles wins in Indonesia and is proclaimed world champion

The Spanish Máximo Quiles (KTM) has achieved his first world title as the great champions do, winning the Indonesian Moto3 Grand Prix that was held at the Mandalika circuit.

Along with Quiles, on the podium, finished his main rivals in the championship, the Spaniards David Almansa (KTM) and Brian Uriarte (KTM).

Quiles dominated the race from the second lap and with a strong pace in those first moments he consolidated an advantage that allowed him to win the Moto3 world title from the top of the podium.

David Almansa rushed out as soon as the traffic light went out to enter the first curve of the track ahead of Brian Uriarte (KTM), as did Máximo Quiles (KTM), who from the second row of the starting formation managed to settle into third place, although with them were also Adrián Fernández (Honda), Álvaro Carpe (KTM), and the local idol, Veda Pratama (Honda).

Quiles put all his effort in the first lap, although it was not easy for him to take the lead of the race until the second lap, in which after a series of collisions between the fairings of the motorcycles with his opponents, he managed to take the lead and hit a strong pull that gave him a few meters advantage over Adrián Fernández and Álvaro Carpe.

Behind them, Veda Pratama and David Almansa struggled not to lose the pace of the drivers in front, while Máximo Quiles slowly left all his opponents.

The pace set by Máximo Quiles, with a fastest lap record almost in every lap he completed, allowed him to consolidate a certain advantage in those initial laps, while behind him a quintet of riders favored the Spaniard's escape with their constant overtaking and, in fact, allowed the Finnish Rico Salmela (KTM) and the Spanish Adrián Cruces (KTM) to link up with them.

Lap after lap Máximo Quiles was consolidating an advantage, on his way to his tenth victory of the season and also to mathematically obtaining his first world title with five grand prizes remaining.

But that initial advantage made Máximo Quiles make some mistakes, who went too far in the trajectory of a curve and that made him lose more than half a second of advantage over his pursuers, where it was already David Almansa who assumed the responsibility of trying to neutralize the escapee one lap before reaching the halfway point of a race scheduled for twenty laps.

David Almansa began to push from second position followed by Adrián Fernández and Álvaro Carpe, cutting tenths of a second in some of the partials, but with Máximo Quiles controlling the differences quite well, but making some mistakes due to nerves, since on the tenth lap he went off the track again at turn seventeen.

On lap eleven, Quiles' advantage over Almansa was 1.5 seconds, the same lap in which David Muñoz (KTM) retired with physical problems and Álvaro Carpe crashed in turn ten when he entered 'crashed' and touched Adrián Fernández's motorcycle from behind.

This situation, which was investigated by Race Management, without any type of sanction, caused Adrián Fernández to be caught by the pursuing sextet, who literally 'swallowed' him.

With eight laps to go, Quiles' advantage over Almansa was 1.4 seconds, but he was ascending as well as descending, which made it more or less clear that the championship leader had the situation under control, although that was when the warning came that he had exceeded the track limits on three occasions, which if it occurred two more times would result in a 'long lap' penalty.

There were no more errors on the part of Máximo Quiles, who only consolidated his advantage on the way to the tenth victory of the season and the world title, ahead of David Almansa and Brian Uriarte, who overtook the Italian Matteo Bertelle (KTM) on the same finish line.