the murcian Fermin Aldeguer who made his debut at the Phillip Island circuit took pole with a record for the Moto2 Australian Grand Prix by beating Augusto Fernández and his teammate Alonso López by 73 thousandths, hit by the red flag shown 36 ” from the end due to the fault of the track invasion by a pair of geese.
If the premier class is the most competitive in the history of the MotoGP season, in the Moto2 intermediate class they are not far behind and a point and a half separates the leader Augusto Fernández from the second Ai Ogura before this Sunday’s race, which in Phillip Island is having mixed behavior. In free practice the Mallorcan was overtaken only by Boscoscuro Alonso López and Fermín Aldeguer while the Japanese narrowly entered Q2, eleventh.
Anything other than a Spanish pole position with five Spaniards in the top-6 in free practice – only Aspar Jake Dixon got through – would be a surprise. From the start of the first lap, Boscoscuro’s men took the lead with Aldeguer leading López and a record 1’32″233 for the Murcian who debuted on pole in Argentina. The leader Fernández and the third place Canet is already fighting to complete the first provisional line.
But due to the difficulties of Ogura -at that time tenth and saved like Márquez in the first round- Augusto smelled blood and finished second at 0″073 from Aldeguer. But an unnecessary action with ‘Manugas’ González showed that the Despite everything, the Spaniard did not have enough tempered nerves and both got a warning from the Race Direction.
There was no more rubber to scratch for them and Aldeguer, Fernández and López stayed ahead, awaiting Augusto’s investigation. Arbolino, Canet and Vietti qualified on the second row and González, Acosta and Alcoba will start on the third. Ogura could not pass from 13th position and there was no possibility of helping his teammate Chantra, 16th.
And to finish in 36″ they showed a red flag for some geese that decided to walk quietly around the track, it happened a few hours before as well as at the end of Moto3 FP3, and for Alonso López there was no choice to improve.
Via Q1, Manu González, Dalla Porta, Vietti and Chantra made the cut. Albert Arenas will start 19th burdened by a crash -he only did one lap and just crashed in FP3 destroying the bike-, Marcos Ramírez 22nd and Jorge Navarro 24th.
Source: La Verdad
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