Mario Aji Fastest In Moto3 Qualification, Aleix Espargaro Gives Praise: Fastest Rider In Indonesia

JAKARTA - Aprilia racer Aleix Espargaro praised the Moto3 racer from Indonesia, Mario Aji. This praise was conveyed by Espargaro after seeing the achievements of this junior racer in the qualifying series.

As the host, Mario Aji, who is a Honda Team Asia racer, was able to show a slick performance when appearing at the Mandalika Circuit, Saturday, March 19. In the Mandalika Moto3 qualification, Aji finished as the third fastest with a time of 1 minute 41.5670 seconds.

The 18-year-old racer's score is only +0.335 seconds behind Carlos Tatay from CFmoto, who occupies the top position as well as the Mandalika Moto3 pole position winner.

Mario Aji's achievement in the Moto3 Mandalika 2022 qualification then received praise from many parties. One of them is from a seasoned racer, Aleix Espargaro.

Through his Twitter account, Espargaro shared a short video showing Mario Aji's moment of victory after crossing the finish line. Accompanying the upload, the Spanish racer called Aji the fastest human in Indonesia.

"Indonesia's fastest man," wrote Espargaro accompanying the upload of Mario Aji's video from MotoGP.

In the praise, Aleix Espargaro also displayed an emoji raising both hands which means 'salute' and not forgetting the Indonesian flag emoji.

Fastest Indonesian man! https://t.co/K6074GQyQl

— Aleix Espargaro (@AleixEspargaro) March 19, 2022

Aleix Espargaro is a fairly active racer on social media. He also often replies to messages given by his fans.

Even recently, he also made a challenge for Indonesian netizens to be able to make their followers on Instagram number one million accounts before the last day of the Mandalika MotoGP.

Interestingly, the challenge was met in less than three days. As a form of seriousness, Aleix Espargaro will keep his promise to throw his helmet into the stands on the last day of the race day as a memento for the lucky spectators.