Pedro Acosta dominated the first free practice sessions of Moto2

the ruler of the world, Pedro Acosta (Kalex), dominated the first free practice session of the San Marino Grand Prix with authority of Moto2 at the Misano Adriatico circuit.

Acosta ran 1:36.488 and was 191 thousandths of a second ahead of Japan’s Ai Ogura (Kalex), who crashed almost at the end of the session, with Italian Celestino Vietti (Kalex) in third position.

He is also Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), the most direct rival of the category leader, At first he had to settle for the ninth positionbetween Belgian Barry Baltus and British Sam Lowes, all on Kalex tracks.

Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) was the first leader of the Moto2 sessionwith just a tenth of a second ahead of Spaniard Pedro Acosta (Kalex), the main reference in the provisional classification of the world championship on his fifth lap, but just one lap later everything changed.

Acosta moved into first place on lap six, 1:37.239and, one lap later, the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex) joined the list of the “fallen” fourteen, along with the British Jake Dixon (Kalex) and the Spanish Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex).

In the eighth lap the leader became, by 18 thousandths of a second, the Dutchman Bo Bendsneyder (Kalex), although in the next lap it was again Ai Ogura in front, who soon entered his workshop to perform a series of set-up changes to your motorcycle.

In the latter part of the session, Ogura was overtaken by Pedro Acosta and the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex), at a time during the session when all drivers begin to make their final attack on the time table.

The reference, 1:36.721, by Pedro Acosta, then dropped to 1:36.308 on his fifteenth lapwhich was almost four-tenths of a second faster than Ogura’s time on that same lap, but his record was canceled for exceeding track limits and the correct one became 1:36.569, which he achieved in seventeenth lap and improved one later, 1 :36.488.

Behind him, one of his closest rivals, Ai Ogura, crashed at turn five as he finished second with a 1:36.679 on the board.

Arón Canet (Kalex) finished in seventh place, with Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), thirteenth, Albert Arenas (Kalex), who also suffered an accident without consequences, fifteenth, ahead of Alonso López (Boscoscuro), with Marcos Ramírez (Kalex), eighteenth; Sergio García Dols (Kalex), twentieth, ahead of Izan Guevara and Manuel González, with Jeremy Alcoba and Borja Gómez behind and all on Kalex tracks.