Aprilia will be the only one to partner with a star Dani Pedrosa

The surprise is about to jump on Friday of MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix that in the hottest time Aprilia was in charge Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales avoid. But the great enemy is the Little Samurai Dani Pedrosa that in the second wild card he made as a KTM tester, the first after a year and a half, he qualified directly for Q2 thanks to the best time of the morning where he was third in the combined. But it was that in Practice 2 in the afternoon the man from Castellar del Vallès was ninth, again in the top-10, a session led by Aleix Espargaró 1’36″708 by two thousandths in Viñales and 0″127 in KTM also. Jack Miller.

And with the great performance of Dani Pedrosa a turned back, with direct classification in Q2, and in rhythm – with the midfielder at 1’38”. the three MotoGP champions on the grid in JerezBagnaia (13th), Quartararo (16th) and Mir (18th), after receiving two consecutive falls, the current leader Bezzecchi (12th), the austin winner Rinse (15th) o the winner of the Argentine Sprint Brad Binder (11th).

They are directly classified for Q2 Aleix Espargaró, Maverick Viñales, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Martín, Jack Miller, Johann Zarco, Miguel Oliveira, Alex Márquez, Taka Nakagami and Luca Marini were separated by only 0″345. The first 16 combined flew below the lap record in a career established by Bagnaia last year in his Jerez Grand Slam.

Aprilia and KTM, the surprises

The Aprilia and KTM in the hot conditions were proving devastating, three of Noale’s four bikes making it into the top-10 while Aleix’s third last year was the best result for an Aprilia at Jerez. In the case of KTM, Pol Espargaró’s P6 at Jerez-1 in 2020 was the result to beat and they directly placed Miller and Pedrosa themselves and Binder was left only 44 thousandths of a second compared to Marini who marked the cut.