With a 1+2 in Q2 and a podium finish under their belts, Carpe and Rueda will attempt to carry over their good showing from Mugello at Assen.

The Moto3 World Championship completes its first back-to-back run of races this weekend, with the series heading to The Netherlands for the Dutch TT. Red Bull KTM Moto3 riders Jose Antonio Rueda and Alvaro Carpe arrive at Assen with confidence, as the former is more leader in the overall standings and the latter is in third place and on a podium streak.

The top rider in the Moto3 standings visits the Netherlands convinced that he can achieve a good result at the cathedral. Rueda feels comfortable at Assen, one of the oldest and most legendary tracks on the calendar. He will be be aiming for a strong result to return to the podium positions, having missed out in the last two Grands Prix after achieving five victories and one third in the first seven races of the year. At the circuit that hosts this weekend’s event, he finished sixth in his rookie year and fourth in 2024, both times coming close to victory. Rueda was fourth in a hotly contested Italian Grand Prix, having started from second on the grid. After nine races, Rueda remains top of the overall standings, with 162 points and a 56-point lead over his closest rival.

Carpe enters the tenth Grand Prix of the season in top form. After consecutive fourth-place finishes in France and Great Britain, he now has two successive podium finishes from the trips to Aragon and Italy. The series’s top rookie is looking for his first win, something that eluded him at Mugello by just six thousandths of a second. He knows Assen well, after two years visiting the Dutch track in the Red Bull Rookies Cup. In that competition, he took a second and a sixth place finish in both the 2023 and 2024 editions. Carpe heads into the Dutch TT third in the standings with 105 points, just one off second place.

In conclusion, the Red Bull KTM Ajo Moto3 team visits one of the most traditional motorcycling venues on the calendar to try to consolidate its role as favourite in the category. In addition to continuing to led the Rider and Rookie classifications, Red Bull KTM Ajo recently extended their lead in the Team standings, with 267 points and a 106-point advantage. In the last years, the team have achieved a victory for Miguel Oliveira (2015) and a third place for Deniz Öncü (2023) at Assen.

Action at the Dutch TT starts on Friday at 9:00 a.m. (local time), with Sunday’s 20- lap race starting at 11:00 a.m.

Circuit information – TT Circuit Assen
Length: 4.5 km. / 2.8 miles
Width: 14m. / 45.93 ft.
Left corners: 6
Right corners: 12
Longest straight: 0.48km. / 1597.77 ft.
Built: 1955

#99 JOSE ANTONIO RUEDA

“We’re off to Assen, a track I really like. I hope the weather is good and we can enjoy a dry weekend. We want to continue working along the same lines as what we’ve been doing at all the previous Grands Prix, so we’ll give it our all from the start to prepare for Sunday in the best possible way. The goal is the same as always: to be at the front and fight for the top positions until the end. This is a track where slipstreams don’t have as much of an impact, so we’re going to try to take advantage of that and work on our pace.”

#83 ALVARO CARPE

“I’m looking forward to arriving in Assen, after achieving our first Pole Position in the World Championship and our second consecutive podium. I’m eager to continue learning and improving to fight for the victory at every track, so we’re going to keep working just as hard. We have to make the most of our good form to transform motivation into ambition and, above all, good results before the summer break.”