Leader Pedro Acosta started strong at the Red Bull Ring

after thai Somkiat Chantra The World Championship leader will launch the first attack of the morning with his 1:34.160 in FP2 Pedro Acosta (Kalex) relegated the Asian at the end of the first day of free practice for the Moto2 Austrian Grand Prix, leading the afternoon session with a 1’34″050.

Acosta beat Thai Chantra by a few tenths, unable to improve on his morning time and had to settle for second place at the end of the first day of testing at the Spielberg track.

After just 5 minutes of the Moto2 session, the Spaniard Manuel “Manugas” Gonzalez (Kalex) fell to four. He had a good roll and his neck was immobilized with a cervical collar on his legs for a check-up at the Circuit Clinic, but the impact of his motorcycle against the air defenses broke them. Race management was forced to show a red flag to replace the damaged element and guarantee the safety of all drivers, with almost five minutes of the session gone.

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

Once the session resumed, the Moto2 riders struggled to lower Thai Somkiat Chantra’s (Kalex) morning time, until the leader himself promised to do so. But there was nothing else and Chantra finished second overall with his Japanese partner Ai Ogura third, British Jake Dixon (Kalex) fourth, Italians Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and Celestino Vietti in fifth and sixth place, with the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex), seventh, leading the sextet of Spaniards, Arón Canet (Kalex), Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), Silverstone winner, Alonso López (Boscoscuro), Albert Arenas (Kalex), Manuel González, and the Moto3 world champion in 2022, Izan Guevara (Kalex) with his best Moto2 result of this rookie campaign.

Sergio García Dols (Kalex), is sixteenth, with Marcos Ramírez (Kalex), eighteenth, ahead of Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) and Alex Escrig (Kalex), twenty-second, and Borja Gómez (Kalex) , twenty-sixth.