John McPhee dominated the free seconds in Moto3

The British John McPhee (Husqvarna) manages to “rule home”, as fastest at the end of the first day of practice of the Moto3 British Grand Prix at the Silverstone circuit, where the world leader, Sergio García Dols (GasGas) finished from the second straight classification in being eighteenth.

McPhee, who posted his best lap near the end of the day, came close to the outright class record and beating Izan Guevara (GasGas) by more than four tenths of a secondsecond in the provisional world classification “only” three points behind the leader, his teammate García Dols, with fellow Spaniard Xavier Artigas (CFMoto), third.

The beautiful weather, unusual for this time of year in the Silverstone area, they make the work of all Moto3 riders and teams a lot easierwho immediately began to lower records in the morning, when they were first out on the track they found the asphalt colder than the other categories.

Thus, the best time of Sergio García Dols (GasGas) did not last long at the top of the table as he was overtaken by up to five riders.with Japanese Tatsuki Suzuki (Honda) in the lead, followed by Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM), Spanish Izan Guevara (GasGas), British John McPhee (Husqvarna), and Spanish Jaume Masiá (KTM).

Suzuki did not stay at the top of the classification for long as the Italian Riccardo Rossi (Honda) beat him by more than half a second in 2:11.944, and the Spaniard Izan Guevara (GasGas) also beat him, very active and effective. throughout the day, which is 390 thousandths from the transalpine, but there is still almost half a test session ahead.

With the arrival of the last minutes, the pilots began to force, but errors also came, in the form of excesses in the layout of the trajectories, which caused many cancellations of the stopwatch due to exceeding the limits of the track, until it stopped Izan Guevara in his new best time of 2m11.372s, which is more than half a second faster than the Italian record.

But that was the starting “pistoletazo” of the last “time attack” of the pilots because after him came the local “John McPhee to roll in 2:10.939, which is close to the absolute best time in the category, which since last year was held by the Italian Romani Fenati (Husqvarna) at 2:10.619.

McPhee finished as Moto3 leader of the daywith more than four tenths of a second ahead of Izan Guevara, and with Tatsuki Suzuki and David Muñoz (KTM), behind them.

The world leader, Sergio García Dols (GasGas), who was also in the morning session, was relegated to an alarming eighteenth position that left him in the second direct classification, a goal that the Spaniard Xavier Artigas (CFMoto ), third at the end, ahead of Suzuki, with Italian Dennis Foggia (Honda), eighth, behind his compatriot Andrea Migno (Honda) and Spaniard David Muñoz ( KTM), who had to serve a “long lap” penalty for throwing another driver during the TT Assen Race.

Jaume Masiá (KTM), Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), Ricacardo Rossi, Adrián Fernández (KTM), Stefano Nepa (KTM) and Turkish Deniz Öncü (KTM) also entered the second classification, leaving behind Daniel Holgado (KTM). ), narrow, fifteenth, in addition to Sergio García Dols, Carlos Tatay (CFMoto), Iván Ortolá (KTM), Marc García (Honda) and Ana Carrasco (KTM).