With apparent calmness, no fear in his demeanor, Ai Ogura, the leader of free practice, tackled the most important qualifier of his short World Championship career in Sepang. Although his option to take the Moto2 crown is very complicated, this Saturday he started to show signs of power. On the other side of the ring, Augusto Fernández who, after the moral stick of his fall in the race in Australia, added two more falls in free practice in Sepang. The two of them disputed free practice at 0 “181, but Q2 closed the preserve of Ogura.
Arbolino took provisional pole with 2’06″488, the best time of the weekend, an initial attack that saw laps canceled, including that of Ogura, due to a yellow flag due to the crash of Salac.
The Japanese in his second attempt already put 2’06″406 with Augusto Fernández, temporarily sixth when the two Red Bull KTMs Ajo Fernández and Acosta came back together to change the rear tire in perfect cooperation throughout Saturday, but no one improved in the final round.
So Ogura will share the front row with Arbolinio and Canet and Dixon in the second row with González and Augusto and Acosta in the third row with Beubier and Alonso López. 13th Arenas and 16th Aldeguer.
Through Q1 Roberts, Salac, Dalla Porta and Antonelli passed, leaving Alcoba to start 19th and Vietti, the first leader of the year, 20th, 21st Marcos Ramírez and the newcomers which is Sanchís, 24th and 26th Gçómez. Veteran Sam Lowes was sidelined with a chronic shoulder injury for the rest of the GP.
Source: La Verdad
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