Roberts is doing well in Assen as well as the weather

American Joe Roberts (Kalex) improved in line with the weather and finished leading the first day of free practice for the Moto2 Dutch Grand Prix at the TT Assen circuit.

Roberts, with a time of 1: 37.393, was the fastest in the intermediate category, where physical problems conditioned the performance of the leader of the morning session, Spanish Arón Canet (Kalex), who finished seventh, while after Augusto Fernández Si (Kalex), who continued his great streak with an extraordinary performance, and Albert Arenas, who seemed to clearly take the category and his Kalex, stood out.

With the passage of the powerful MotoGP bikes, the asphalt conditions have dramatically improved and it almost allowed the start of the second session of Moto2 to start lowering the records of all its riders, and within five minutes the hours of the first session They are history, except in the case of Arón Canet (Kalex) and the Thai Keminth Kubo (Kalex).

And that was the big initial surprise because Canet ordered with authority in the first session and, in the second, he was relegated to the last position, even though he was in those conditions due to the fact that the problems with his nose, after the accident. of the circulation he experienced in Spain, the vein bled again in that place.

On the other side of the classification, Augusto Fernández (Kalex) led with 1: 37.908, with more than half a second ahead of his compatriot Alonso López (Boscoscuro), ahead of British Jake Dixon (Kalex) and Sam Lowes ( Kalex), who shortly after and for the eleventh time crashed on turn four, in addition to American Joe Roberts (Kalex).

But the session was just beginning and Augusto Fernández, who also fell in the fifth turn, was replaced as reference by Albert Arenas, who started “weakly”, but gradually came out to establish a 1: 37,569 reference. .

Arón Canet’s first attempt to improve brought him to twelfth position but he immediately returned to his workshop and his movements to the doctor Ángel Charte, well aware of his physical condition, did not seem very reassuring, although ‘t after a few minutes in the workshop he reappeared on the track to try to improve his situation, a goal he achieved in his first flying lap, which put him in seventh. He maintains the same problem experienced by a broken bone in his nose in a traffic accident a week and a half ago that rubbed into the capillary and caused bleeding and had to be cauterized throughout Friday afternoon at a hospital in Assen.

Only the American Joe Roberts, the Spanish Augusto Fernández (Kalex) and Albert Arenas (Kalex), the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) and the Spanish Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) and Alonso López (Boscoscuro) preceded him, among the Italian. Celestino Vietti (Kalex), world leader and Spanish Jorge Navarro (Kalex), in the back.

Because they also finished behind, but within the second direct classification, the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex), the Spanish Marcos Ramírez (MV Agusta) the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex) and the Italians Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and Alessandro Zaccone (Kalex).

Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex) failed to achieve that goal when he collapsed and was relegated to nineteenth position, along with Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) twenty-one and Alex Toledo (Kalex) twenty-five.