Dixon began commanding at Silverstone

The British Jake Dixon (Kalex) “acted” as host in the first free practice session of the Moto2 British Grand Prix built on the Silverstone circuit, ahead of Augusto Fernández (Kalex), Arón Canet (Kalex) and Alonso López (Boscoscuro).

Pedro Acosta (Kalex) is the first star of the category to receive an “unfit” from the medical direction. of the world championship, who after taking an X-ray of his left femur, which had a fracture that had not yet sufficiently fused, decided not to give him permission to compete at Silverstone.

A decision that did not surprise the “Shark of Mazarrón”, which on Thursday already underwent the first medical examination with X-rays carried out in Spain a week ago that did not make clear the recovery of the pilot and which prompted on that second X-ray on Friday morning

As if wanting to be a “prophet in his land”, the British Jake Dixon (Kalex), from the Spanish team Jorge Martínez “Aspar” became the initial hero of the Moto2 test session by achieving one of the first reference times of the same, while on the “opposite pole” of the same goal was his compatriot Sam Lowes (Kalex), who took several minutes to roll on the ground.

Lowes crashed at turn six on the British track and was thus condemned to a long wait in his workshop that the mechanics could repair his bike and therefore was very low in the time classification, where he fell to the twenty-fifth position, from where he returned to the last nine minutes where he was back on the track to try to improve, without getting it.

Dixon found a serious opponent in Augusto Fernández (Kalex), leader of the championship with the Italian Celestino Vietti (Kalex), as between the two they performed fast laps that led to several changes of position at the top of the time table, although the differences between of two is ten thousandths of a second, with Albert Arenas (Kalex) third in contentionalmost two tenths of a second away and with twenty minutes left in the official round.

Arenas was not so lucky in the final minutes, where he suffered a crash in turn two that prevented him from improving and made him go from third to tenth position.

Arón Canet (Kalex), fully recovered from the nosebleed problems he suffered in Germany and the Netherlands after the traffic accident he suffered in Valencia, “fought” for the top positions to finish in third, behind Jake Dixon and Augusto Fernández, and ahead of Alonso López (Boscoscuro) and the American Joe Roberts (Kalex).

Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro) finished in eleventh position, with Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex) behind him, Marcos Ramírez (Kalex), fifteenth, Jorge Navarro (Kalex), seventeenth, and Jeremy Alcoba ( Kalex), twentieth.