Pedro Acosta (Kalex) broke the track record and consolidated his lead in the free practice sessions for the Moto2 Italian Grand Prixat the Mugello circuit, ahead of his compatriot Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) and the British Jake Dixon (Kalex).
Acosta broke the Italian circuit’s absolute record by running 1:50.514, when the previous record was 1:50.616, held by the Spanish Raúl Fernández since 2021.
The British Sam Lowes and Jake Dixon were among the first drivers at the top of the table to have their records lowered in this third batch to place sixth and seventh respectively, with Spaniard Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex) improving on his climb to tenth place.
Like them, Spaniard Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) also improved his personal best time by just over three tenths of a second to rise from fourth to second position, just moments ahead of Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex). “placed” the British Rory Skinner (Kalex), who was driving very slowly on the line of turn two, in an incident that the leadership of Carrera decided to investigate and ended up with the Anglo-Saxon at the circuit clinic.
After a while, the first big surprise came, when the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex) managed to dislodge “Tiburón” Acosta from the first place, who was unable to improve his time from the first day.
Salac didn’t take long for first place, passing two laps later by Fermín Aldeguer and when Pedro Acosta started a fast lap attempt on all parts of the track in one fast lap to achieve a new absolute track record for the category.
Acosta consolidated his leadership, followed by Aldeguer, Dixon, Salac and Lowes, with Spaniards Arón Canet, Sergio García Dols, Alonso LópezManuel González and Albert Arenas within the second direct classification, as well as the Italians Tony Arbolino and Mattia Pasini, or the Thai Somkiat Chantra, they all have Kalex.
The Japanese Ai Ogura, the South African Darryn Binder, the American Joe Roberts and the Spaniards Jeremy Alcoba, Izan Guevara, Marcos Ramírez and Borja Gómez are left with very little.
Source: La Verdad
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