the thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex) beat Pedro Acosta by more than two tenths of a second (Kalex) in the first free practice for the Moto2 Austrian Grand Prix, at the “Red Bull” circuit in Spielberg.
And it didn’t take long for Acosta to become the session leader, on his sixth lap, when he rolled in 1:35.016although that position was short-lived as he was overtaken by Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex), who broke the 1:35 barrier first with a time of 1:34.662.
“Shark” from Puerto de Mazarrón improved his personal best a few laps later with a time of 1:34.769 which was almost a tenth of a second behind the Asian pilot and even closer to the absolute record in the category, held by the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) since 2022, at 1:33.933.
Ogura himself began to gradually climb the ranks until he was in Acosta’s shoes.almost 35 thousandths of a second from the Spanish record, while another Spaniard, Arón Canet, after more than half an hour of the session did not complete a turn in his Kalex, which took longer than expected in the workshop.
In just five laps, Canet rose to twenty-second placejust ahead of Izan Guevara (Kalex) and Borja Gómez (Kalex).
On the fourteenth lap, Pedro Acosta rolled in 1:34.425 -after two laps he dropped several thousands by establishing 1:34.400 as the best time in the category- and together with the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex), they ousted Chantra from the first position, which at the time was not was able to “scratch” a single thousandth of his personal best.
But in the last minute Chantra took first place by clocking 1:34.160just two tenths of last year’s “Pole position” of the Japanese Ai Ogura, and ahead of Pedro Acosta, Filip Salac, Ai Ogura and the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), the second in the fight for the world title with spanish
The winner at Silverstone, the Spaniard Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), finished in sixth positionAlbert Arenas (Kalex), ninth, ahead of Manuel González (Kalex), Izan Guevara (Kalex) and Alonso López (Boscoscuro).
Sergio García Dols (Kalex) finished sixteenthwith Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex), behind him, Arón Canet (Kalex) in twentieth position, Marcos Ramírez (Kalex), twenty-third, Borja Gómez (Kalex), twenty-fourth, and Alex Escrig (Kalex), twenty-sixth .
Source: La Verdad
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