Pedro Acosta was undaunted and dominated the third Moto2 free practice

Pedro “Tiburón” Acosta (Kalex) was undaunted and also dominated the third and final round of free practice. for the Austrian Moto2 Grand Prix at the Spielberg “Red Bull” circuit.

Acosta lowered his personal best time to 1:34.020, just finished one tenth of a second faster than his closest “Red Bull” rival, the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex)who in the latter part of the session beat him by dropping to 1:33.994.

But the “Shark” from Puerto de Mazarrón was not afraid and crushed the absolute circuit record by running 1:33.523, compared to the 1:33.933 achieved by the Japanese Ai Ogura last year.

Although his previous flying lap was canceled for exceeding track limits, Acosta had no problem chaining a record sequence that consolidated him in first place free training.

After Acosta, Chantra finished at 293 thousandths of a second, with Ogura at 572 thousandths and Albert Arenas (KTM), at 640 thousandths.

The superiority of Pedro Acosta was unquestionable, causing problems for his immediate rival in the championship, the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), who crashed at the start of the third session and was the only rider who did not improve on his first record day.

His compatriot Celestino Vietti (Kalex) secured fifth position, ahead of British Jake Dixon (Kalex)the Czech Filip Salac, the Spanish Arón Canet (Kalex), Manuel González (Kalex), Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) and Alonso López (Boscoscuro), the Dutch Zonta Van der Goorbergh (Kalex) and the British Sam Lowes (Kalex) in within the second direct classification.

The Spaniard Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) was left here, by almost seven thousandths of a second, as well as the South African Darryn Binder, the Italian Dennis Foggia or the Spaniards Jeremy Alcoba, Alex Escrig -who crashed at the turn 6 without consequences for their physical integrity-, Sergio García Dols, Izan Guevara or Borja Gómez, all of them on the paths of Kalex.