#JapaneseGP Moto3 FP2: Fenati leads an Italian treble

It was narrowly on the very last lap that Romano Fenati managed to win by 0.006 ahead of Niccolo Antonelli, followed by Nicolo Bulega and Aron Canet.

#JapaneseGP Moto3™	2016	2017
FP1	1'57.523 Nicolo Bulega	2'09.577 Nicolo Bulega
FP2	1'56.982 Enea Bastianini	2'10.628 Romano Fenati
FP3	1'56.651 Brad Binder
Qualification	1'56.443 Hiroki Ono
Warm Up	1'57.455 Hiroki Ono
Course	Bastianini, Binder, Bulega (Ono disqualified, see here)
All time lap record	1'56.443 Hiroki Ono 2016

It was in 2'09.577 that Nicolo Bulega set the best time in the first wet session on his Sky Racing Team VR46 KTM. For the second, the temperature was 15° and that of the track 17°. It rained significantly less than during the first session. The wind had finally picked up, if only 3 km/h.

Bo Bendsneyder fell in the first laps in turn 5 without seriousness. Juanfran Guevara imitated him due to a high side in turn 4. It had been raining much less for an hour, but the track remained wet. Romano Fenati was the fastest at the start of the session in 2'11.582. Adam Norrodin in turn fell without gravity.

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Romano Fenati retained the lead, improving slightly in 2'11.145. Despite the less wet track, the times were slower than in the first session. Nicolo Bulega moved into second position, 0.1 behind Fenati, a full second ahead of third Enea Bastianini. Andrea Migno began to show the nose of her fairing by climbing into fifth position ahead of Aron Canet.

According to Adam Norrodin, who had just returned to the pits after his fall, the track was less wet but more slippery than during the first session. This did not prevent Nicolo Bulega from improving again to 2'10.806, just over a second off his best time of the morning. Romano Fenati was at 0.3 and Niccolo Antonelli at 0.8. Then Antonelli overtook Fenati and preceded him by 0.02.

Niccolo Antonelli accelerated again a quarter of an hour from the end in 2'10.720, before going to visit a gravel trap. You couldn't say he wasn't attacking. This provisional best time in the second session gave him fifth position in the general classification combined.

Bo Bendsneyder, the teammate of provisional leader Antonelli at Ajo KTM, fell without seriousness for the second time in the session, in the same turn 5, around 10 minutes from the checkered flag. World Championship leader Joan Mir fell (which rarely happens to him) without seriousness and was able to restart his Honda to return to his pit. John McPhee fell in turn 4 without consequence, blocking the front while braking. Local Ayumu Sasaki crashed at turn 14, the same as his teammate Adam Norrodin.

Not something we're used to seeing this year!@Joanmir36 in the gravel unhurt. #JapaneseGP pic.twitter.com/o0IM3u2XgL

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With her Honda too damaged, and too little time to repair it, Joan Mir did not leave. He was then in twenty-first position, and we remind you that he was 6 places back on the grid as a penalty.

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Romano Fenati won on the very last lap 0.006 ahead of Niccolo Antonelli, followed by Nicolo Bulega and Aron Canet. Jules Danilo was fourteenth.

Ranking of the second free practice session (thanks to crash.net) :

1. Roman Fenati ITA Marinelli Rivacold Snipers (Honda) 2m 10.628s
2. Niccolo Antonelli ITA Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 2m 10.634s
3. Nicholas Bulega ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (KTM) 2m 10.806s
4. Aron canet SPA Estrella Galicia 0,0 (Honda) 2m 10.953s
5. Nakarin Atiratphuvapat THA Honda Team Asia (Honda) 2m 11.354s
6. Manuel Pagliani ITA CIP (Mahindra) 2m 11.512s
7. Andrea Migno ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (KTM) 2m 11.642s
8. Tatsuki suzuki JPN SIC58 Squadra Corse (Honda) 2m 11.652s
9. Albert Arenas SPA Aspar Mahindra Moto3 (Mahindra) 2m 11.839s
10. Enea Bastianini ITA Estrella Galicia 0,0 (Honda) 2m 11.848s
11. Fabio DiGiannantonio ITA Del Conca Gresini Moto3 (Honda) 2m 11.902s
12. Philipp Oettl GER Südmetall Schedl GP Racing (KTM) 2m 12.016s
13. George Martin SPA Del Conca Gresini Moto3 (Honda) 2m 12.447s
14. Jules Danilo FRA Marinelli Rivacold Snipers (Honda) 2m 12.720s
15. Jakub Kornfeil CZE Peugeot MC Saxoprint (Peugeot) 2m 12.976s
16. Marco Bezzecchi ITA CIP (Mahindra) 2m 13.115s
17. Livio Law BEL Leopard Racing (Honda) 2m 13.139s
18. Darryn binder RSA Platinum Bay Real Estate (KTM) 2m 13.480s
19. gabriel rodrigo ARG RBA BOE Racing Team (KTM) 2m 13.518s
20. Ayumu Sasaki JPN SIC Racing Team (Honda) 2m 13.645s
21. Joan mir SPA Leopard Racing (Honda) 2m 13.682s
22. Will Bendsneyder NED Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 2m 13.698s
23. Marcos Ramirez SPA Platinum Bay Real Estate (KTM) 2m 13.841s
24. John mcphee GBR British Talent Team (Honda) 2m 14.147s
25. Tony Arbolino ITA SIC58 Squadra Corse (Honda) 2m 14.217s
26. Adam Norrodin MAL SIC Racing Team (Honda) 2m 14.298s
27. Lorenzo Dalla Porta ITA Aspar Mahindra Moto3 (Mahindra) 2m 14.412s
28. Patrick Pulkkinen END Peugeot MC Saxoprint (Peugeot) 2m 15.427s
29. Juanfran Guevara SPA RBA BOE Racing Team (KTM) 2m 15.748s
30. Kaito Toba JPN Honda Team Asia (Honda) 2m 16.923s
31. Tom Toparis AUS Cube Racing (KTM) 2m 18.287s