San Marino GP Misano Moto3 FP2: Arenas leads the first day of testing

The best time to beat was the 1'42.824 achieved during the first morning free practice session by Albert Arenas. The Ángel Nieto Team KTM rider then preceded Niccolò Antonelli and Gabriel Rodrigo by 0.1, Tony Arbolino by 0.2, and Lorenzo Dalla Porta, Aron Canet, Romano Fenati and John McPhee by 0.4. Can Öncü was unfortunately declared unfit to ride due to a fracture of his left collarbone. His brother Deniz immediately replaced him for the rest of the weekend.

Misano Moto3™	2018	2019
FP1	1'43.526 Jakub Kornfeil	1'42.824 Albert Arenas
FP2	1'42.324 Jorge Martin	1'43.017 Albert Arenas
FP3	1'51.364 Nicolò Bulega
Q1	XXX
Q2	1'41.823 Jorge Martin
warm up	1'42.516 Arón Canet
Course	Dalla Porta, Martin, Di Giannantonio
All time lap record	1'41.823 Jorge Martin (2018)

The second free practice session started late due to track cleanliness problems, and was reduced by one minute. The air temperature was 25° and the asphalt temperature was 39°.

The first to achieve a significant time was Jaume Masiá in 1'43.568. Deniz Öncü fell on his third lap, without seriousness. Then Ayumu Sasaki improved to 1'43.600. Deniz Öncü managed to restart his KTM and brought it back to the Aki Ajo stand.

Halfway through the session, the times had still not gone down and remained relatively slower than those achieved in the morning. Sasaki dominated this FP2 ahead of Suzuki and Fenati. Sasaki's time would have earned him twelfth place in the morning FP1. Fabio Quartararo came to give some advice to his teammate Ayumu Sasaki:

Kaito Toba, who had already fallen in the morning, fell again without seriousness, this time in Turn 4 like Deniz Öncü a few minutes before him.

Marco Ramírez picked up the pace in 1'43.535, 0.061 ahead of Sasaki.

World Championship leader Lorenzo Dalla Porta took command in 1'43.142. We were only three tenths off the best time of the morning.

At the end of the session, all the drivers returned to the track for the last three minutes. Arenas took the lead in 1'43.017 while Arón Canet fell without seriousness in Turn 10, a fairly fast curve.

Arenas retained the best time of the afternoon, ahead of McPhee and Arbolino, as well as the best time of the day which he had set in the morning.

Mixed results from the first day of free practice :

Reference times:

Test record: 1'41.823 by Jorge Martin (Honda “Del Conca Gresini Moto3”) in 2018

Lap record: 1'42.381 by Gabriel Rodrigo (KTM “RBA BOE Skull Rider”) in 2018

Provisional ranking of the World Championship:

1 Lorenzo DALLA PORTA–Honda 171 points

2 Arón CANET–KTM 157

3 Tony ARBOLINO–Honda 133

4 Niccolò ANTONELLI–Honda 118

5 Marcos RAMÍREZ–Honda 114

6 John MCPHEE–Honda 93

7 Celestino VIETTI–KTM 88

8 Jaume MASIÁ–KTM 83

9 Romano FENATI–Honda 67

10 Jakub KORNFEIL–KTM 67

11 Ai OGURA–Honda 66

12 Dennis FOGGIA–KTM 54

13 Kaito TOBA–Honda 51

14 Tatsuki SUZUKI-Honda 50

15 Gabriel RODRIGO–Honda 50

16 Andrea MIGNO–KTM 49

17 Ayumu SASAKI–Honda 47

18 Raul FERNÁNDEZ–KTM 45

19 Darryn BINDER–KTM 44

20 Albert ARENAS–KTM 35

 

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