Collin Veijer (Husqvarna) in charge of setting benchmarks at the Mandalika circuit’s absolute speed recordon the first day of practice for the Indonesian Moto3 Grand Prix.
The Dutchman set a new absolute record for the Indonesian track by lapping in 1:37.942 and although there was a series of early leaders, the fact was that in just ten minutes the Dutchman had already started the lap below the circuit record, with a time of 1:38.664, well below the 1:38.871 of last year was the Spanish Jaume. Masia (Honda).
Although high temperatures prevent Moto3’s small engines from performing at their peak, Veijer’s record was soon broken, at the hands of the young Italian debutant from Paolo Simoncelli’s team, Luca Lunetta (Honda), who lapped at 1:38.638 and still had almost twenty minutes of the session remaining.
And this was not the last ‘adjustment’ made by Luca Lunetta in the time table, who five minutes later made a new ‘cut’ in the track record by hitting 1:38.326, while the world championship leader, the Colombian of Spanish. The native David Alonso (CFMoto) did not seem to be doing well after the fall he suffered in the first free practice.
Alonso fell in the morning free session and suffered a severe blow which he had to treat. at the circuit clinic and passed the appropriate medical examination, which declared him fit and although no fracture was found, some bruises were noted, the heaviest on one shoulder.
The world leader, at the second stop in the workshops, was eighteenth and Lunetta set the pace in that record of 1:38.326, although everything suggests that the Moto3 riders could drop to 1: 37 on this first day. of training.
In that last outing on the track, in the last ten minutes, the reference time was none other than the time of Luca Lunetta, and the first to beat it was another of the reference drivers of this first day, the Dutchman Collin Veijer , who won. in 1:37.987.
And again it was only Veijer who dropped below 38 seconds, to set a new Moto3 absolute record with a time of 1:37.942, ahead of Spaniards Adrián Fernández (Honda) and David Almansa (Honda).
The world leader, David Alonso, without finding a good rhythm, ‘fell’ in twenty-second position, from where in his last lap and drew strength from the weakness that caused his fall, rose him in thirteenth position, which puts him in the second classification on a provisional basis.
With Veijer at the top of the time table, in his wake, but not breaking the barrier of one minute and 38 seconds, Adrián Fernández, David Almansa, the Italians Matteo Bertelle (Honda), Luca Lunetta and Stefano Nepa ( KTM), the Spaniards José Antonio Rueda (KTM), Ángel Piqueras (Honda), the fastest in the morning, and Iván Ortolá (KTM), together with the Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Husqvarna), who closed the list of the top ten classified.
Like them, Japanese Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM), Australian Joel Kelso (KTM), world leader David Alonso and British Scott Ogden (Honda) also got a provisional pass in the second direct classification.
The Spaniard Daniel Holgado (Gas Gas) did not enter it by very little, 28 thousandths of a second, nor the Italian Filippo Farioli, the teammate of Luca Lunetta, nor the Spaniards David Muñoz (KTM) and Joel Esteban (CFMoto), as well as the Australian Jacob Roulstone (Gas Gas).
Source: La Verdad
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