Sasaki, at a record speed; all favorites, in Q2

Japanese people Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) was confirmed as the fastest rider and speed of the fastest race lap record in third and final free practice session of the Moto3 Australian Grand Prix at the Phillip Island circuit, where all the favorites got a direct pass to the second official classification.

The session saw the first red flag of the day at its end when the pilots spotted a large bird in the middle of the track on their entry lap in the workshops.

Sasaki set the best time 1:36,112which lowered the fastest race lap record held by Australian Jack Miller to 1:36.302 from 2014, in addition to being one thousandth of a second away from the absolute record in the category, held by Spaniard Àlex Márquez, from that same year, by 1:36,050.

The Husqvarna rider dominated the time table almost all the time, with all contenders for the title achieving the goal of direct transfer to the second classification, with Sergio Garcia Dolls (GasGas) in second position, the Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda), in fifth, and the world leader, the Spaniard It’s Guevara (GasGas) in ninth place.

Guevara He was, certainly, the one who had the worst time, because in the first part of the session he “choked” the ocean and managed to get into the second classification, until the last minutes he began to climb the positions to get to to seventh, although in the end he had to settle for ninth place, also ahead of the Spaniards Jaume Masia (KTM), Adrian Fernandez (KTM) and Ivan Ortola (KTM), and behind the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda) and Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM).

They remained in the second direct classification David Munoz (KTM), Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), Carlos Dad (CFMoto) and Anna Carrasco (KTM), who finished in last position.