Official: Friday’s session was canceled because the material did not reach Termas

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The first day of free practice for the Argentine Grand Prix of motorcycling was required cancel since finally one of five cargo planes to leave Indonesia’s island of Lombok with final destination at the Argentine airport of Tucumán with material teams, the most affected Mooney VR46 and Gresini, in addition to Ducati, did not arrive in time. , both KTM and Yamaha teams in MotoGP and also tire supplier Michelin.

Dorna had earlier informed the teams that training was canceled on Friday because they did not complete logistics in time before it became official in the new integrated program.

THE NEW SCHEDULES

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Friday April 1:
Track activity canceled

Saturday April 2:
FP1 Moto3: 1:45 pm – 2:25 pm
FP1 Moto2: 14.40 – 15.20
FP1 MotoGP: 15.35 – 16.20
FP2 Moto3: 16.35 – 17.15
FP2 Moto2: 17.30 – 18.10
FP2 MotoGP: 18.25 – 19.10
Q1 Moto3: 19.35 – 19.50
Q2 Moto3: 20.00 – 20.15
Q1 Moto2: 20.30 – 20.45
Q2 Moto2: 20.55 – 21.10
FP3 MotoGP: 21.25 – 21.55
Q1 MotoGP: 22.05 – 22.20
Q2 MotoGP: 22.30 – 22.45

Sunday April 3:
Warm up Moto3: 14.30 – 14.50
Warm up Moto2: 15.00 – 15.20
Warm up MotoGP: 15.30 – 16.00
Moto3 race: 17.00 (21 laps)
Moto2 race: 18.20 (23 laps)
MotoGP race: 20.00 (25 laps)

If everything happens as Dorna expects, the Argentine Grand Prix program will consist of just two days, Saturday with Free Practices 1 and 2 for all to be followed by Moto3 and Moto2 qualifiers, an FP3 instead of the traditional FP4 for MotoGP followed by MotoGP qualifiers. On Sunday the program remains intact with warmups and races.

Regarding timed sessions, two hours were delayed compared to the previously scheduled program and two free sessions were received in each category in the morning session on Saturday, meaning all categories would ‘only’ lose a free training session. Classification for Q1 and Q2 will be done in combination with two morning free sessions on Saturday.

The odyssey of five charges

The journey with all the team material from Lombok to Termas consists of five flights. Three of the planned freight routes carried material from Lombok to Tucumán via technical stops in Mombasa (Kenya), Lagos (Nigeria) and Brazil. On the other two routes, the cargo is scheduled to travel from Lombok to Doha, stopover in Accra (Ghana) and then in Tucumán.

The cargo of the first two planes had already arrived at the Termas de Río Hondo Circuit on March 26, according to the Argentine GP organization through its official account, and eventually two more planes arrived and parts of the teams were have set up boxes since this Wednesday as happened with the Repsol Honda.

Just that day one of the five planes had a technical stopping problem in Mombasa (Kenya) and was grounded. The first plane, which had already arrived in Tucumán, returned to Lombok to pick up more cargo and, unfortunately, also suffered a technical problem during the Kenyan stop on Wednesday night, which made it impossible for material to get to the teams. and most suppliers affected.

This Thursday the charges remaining on the land in Mombasa must receive the damaged piece (a valve from one of four machines) from Paris and from London to complete the journey through Lagos and Brazil, arriving in Tucumán on Friday. And that’s where the time trial of the affected teams will begin to prepare everything for Saturday. If they can’t leave this afternoon-evening, then Saturday’s program will be very complicated.

TEAMS AFFECTED

MotoGP
Ducati Lenovo: 10 containers missing*
Mooney VR46: all
Gresini racing: all
WithU Yamaha RNF: 2 containers
Team Yamaha engines: 3 containers
Monster Energy Yamaha: 7 containers
Red Bull KTM Tech 3: 2 container
Red Bull KTM Factory: 7 containers
Team Suzuki: 2 containers
michelin
Moto2
Gresini racing: all
Red Bull KTM Garlic: all
Mark VDS: 9 containers
Team VR46: 9 containers
Team VR46 Mastercamp: 1 container
Dunlop
Moto3
Team Leopard: all
Team Avintia: 1 container
Red Bull KTM Garlic: all
Dunlop
* Team boxes/containers with bicycles, spare parts, rider equipment, tools and team Hospitality supplies

Source: La Verdad

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