British Jake Dixon (Kalex) defended his position at the end of the first day of free practice for the Moto2 Spanish Grand Prix at the Ángel Nieto circuit in Jerez de la Frontera to become the category leader, where Spanish Arón Canet won (Kalex) with pain in his left arm to achieve more than the deserved ninth position.
Arón Canet, drew strength from weakness from everywhere to improve his record in the morning almost in the first change to climb to eighth position despite the logical discomfort caused by his left arm injury, if where he had to be mediated by traumatologist Xavier Mir on Monday.
Canet set a best first time of 1: 42.452 which put him in the position of Pedro Acosta (Kalex), who at that time was unable to improve his morning stopwatch, or the category leaders, British Jake Dixon (Kalex) and Sam Lowes (Kalex), while Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) did it by just a few tenths of a second in his personal best time and with only a thousandth of a difference behind of the Spaniard Augusto Fernández (Kalex), at that time. third time.
This was the case until the last ten minutes, where many riders entered their workshops to replace the rear tire and face the final “time attack” of the day.
Augusto Fernández was certainly one of the first to achieve his goal by scoring 1: 42.067 which put him in second, 129 thousandths behind Jake Dixon when the clock was barely six minutes of training and improved. he still had his time, 1: 41.898 which strengthened. he was at the helm of the table, though Dixon soon regained that position.
Albert Arenas (Kalex) was still one of the main characters of those moments, as he dropped in turn thirteen which prevented him from improving to the sixth spot he occupied at the time, although he had to return to track and check if everything on the bike is in order.place.
Only four riders did not improve the time in the morning, including world leader, Italian Celestino Vietti (Kalex), who finished fourteenth, the latter eligible to be included in the second direct classification, but not the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex).) And the Spaniards Marcos Ramírez (MV Agusta) and Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex).
Ahead of them Jake Dixon regained the first position from Augusto Fernández by just two tenths of a second and Japanese Ai Ogura knocked out Sam Lowes, whom he moved to fourth place, while behind them he finished the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and the Spaniard Albert Arenas, who held sixth place, with Pedro Acosta just behind his slipstream.
Like them, the provisional passes in the second classification were the American Joe Roberts, an energetic Arón Canet, the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex), the American Cameron Beaubier (Kalex), the Spanish Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) and the Dutch Bo Bendsneyder ( kalex).
Outside of it, for now, are Spaniards Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex), Jorge Navarro (Kalex), Marcos Ramírez and Jeremy Alcoba.
Source: La Verdad
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