German Marcel Schrotter (Kalex) was the best rider on the first day of free practice for the Moto2 Portuguese Grand Prix at the Portimao circuit, which took place in bad weather conditions.
Schrotter achieved the best final time of 2: 00.678 which put him in first position, the lone driver gathered that second and nearly half a second ahead of the closest of his pursuers, British Jake Dixon (Kalex), and in Just over six-tenths of Americans Cameron Beaubier (Kalex) and Joe Roberts (Kalex), who crashed twice throughout the day.
Far from improving, weather conditions worsened as the minutes passed and Moto2 riders faced increasingly complex asphalt in Portimao and if in the morning the performance of Dutchman Zonta Van der Goorbergh (Kalex) was surprising, the fastest then , it didn’t take long and he became the hero, this time after experiencing a very fast crash at the entrance to be eight.
Not only him, as he was replaced by Spanish Pedro Acosta (Kalex), Moto3 world champion in 2021, who “surfed” his motorcycle in one, but Belgian Barry Baltus (Kalex), and the Spaniards that Albert Arenas (Kalex), thirteen in turn, like the Belgian, Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), another, or Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex), in turn four, who came pushing the bike up to your box.
Rookie Acosta, the Moto3 world champion, continues his diligent study of the new category in the fall on the five circuits he has visited for a total of nine, outstanding leaders, so far in the championship, fortunately are no physical consequences.
Like them, American Joe Roberts (Kalex), was yet another of the main characters of several events, the second of its first day for him, when he crashed on the eleventh turn, as did Augusto Fernández (KTM) , which fell to thirteenth, an area of the track reached in first gear in this category and which, therefore, was taken at very low speeds.
In any case, Augusto Fernandez He was the best Spaniard of the day in the category by taking the sixth fastest time, just ahead of the winner in Austin, Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and along with Arón Canet (Kalex), in eighth place.
Albert Arenas achieved the eleventh position and was therefore in the second direct classification, as did the Thai Keminth Kubo (Kalex), the world leader, the Italian Celestino Vietti (Kalex) and his compatriot Alessandro Zaccone (Kalex).
The Italian Romano Fenati (Boscoscuro), the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex) or the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) were left here for a very short time, in addition to the Spaniards Pedro Acosta, Jeremu Alcoba, Marcos Ramírez (MV Agusta ), Fermín Aldeguer, Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex) and Jorge Navarro (Kalex).
Source: La Verdad
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