The Czech Filip Salac (Kalex) is in charge of setting the speed at first round of free testing of the Japanese Moto2 Grand Prix which was argued in the circuit of Motegi.
Salac established a better initial time, that the asphalt is already dry, 1:50,287with only 14 thousandths ahead of the Japanese Ai Ogura (Boscoscuro) and 19 thousandths compared to Spanish Marcos Ramirez (Kalex).
The category leader, Ai Ogurarelatively calm with the threat of rain enveloping the track, he devoted himself to watching the track developments of his rivals on the television monitors until he thought the conditions had improved.
More complex conditions than usual, as in some parts of the track is dry, but in others the rain is starting to complicate the performance of the drivers and like Ogura, he can be seen in his workshop ‘observing’ his rivals, drivers like british Jake Dixon or Spanish Aron Canet (Kalex), very good winner in Indonesia.
Another title contender and former leader, the Spaniards Sergio Garcia Dolls (Boscoscuro), left the track at ten, because of the asphalt conditions and his motorcycle literally ‘sunk’ in the gravel, he ended up on the ground.
That could be considered the first warning to the other Moto2 riders, who started to make ‘mistakes’ due to the increasingly wet asphalt at some points of the route, when the Italian Tony Arbolinowhich is not exempt from starring in some ‘delicate’ moments, has become the benchmark of the category.
The rain did not end up ‘ruining’ the preparation plans of the pilots and at the top of the time table were some of the main names in the category, like himself. fullthe Brazilian Diogo Moreira (Kalex) or the Spanish Aron Canet (Kalex) and Albert Arenas (Kalex).
What happened to them was Italian full1:51.102, which soon dropped when all his rivals, including the world leader, Ai Ogurathey are on track.
ogre is the next benchmark, on a track well-known, that exceeds 1:51.013, followed by a thousandth of a second of Jake Dixon and himself Tony Arbolinothat after the fall had to finish his training session.
The Japanese proved to be a great connoisseur of the track, as he chained several fast laps to get close to the category record by lapping in 1:50.463 and ‘trimming’ a few thousandths a little later with 1:50.413, less than the fastest race lap (1:50.788) and a scant tenth of the Moto2 outright record, held by Thai Somkiat Chantra with 1:49.898.
In the last minutes of the first free session of Moto2, the unexpected figure of Marcos Ramirez (Kalex), who followed the other drivers managed to stop the time at 1:50.306, although the joy of the Cádiz driver from Conil de la Frontera was short-lived, as he immediately beat him. ogre in just five thousandths of a second, 1:50.301.
Like Ramírez, the first position of the championship leader did not last long, the Czech surpassed Filip Salac (Kalex), which stopped the clock 1:50,287with less than three minutes of the session remaining.
Other pilots were not so lucky. This is the case of Fermin Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), who crashed at turn seven while trying to improve on the sixth position he had previously occupied.
while, Sergio Garcia Dolls He had a mechanical problem with his bike when he was in ninth position, which is why he ended the session early.
Salac ended the session at the top of the table, ahead of Ai Ogura and the Spaniards Marcos Ramírez, Arón Canet, Alonso López, Fermín Aldeguer. Albert Arenas, Izan Guevara and Sergio García Dols, and the Italian Celestino Vietti in the top ten positions.
Source: La Verdad
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