Moto3 Malaysia Sepang Warm-up: Albert Arenas as boss

Just a week ago, Lorenzo Dalla Porta was crowned Moto3 World Champion, and then the suspense ended in the smallest category. However, if the Malaysian Grand Prix promises to be without challenge for the Italian, the situation is different for Arón Canet, who does not yet have the vice-champion place assured, Tony Arbolino and Marcos Ramírez being very motivated to take it from him.

The latter has the advantage since he will start from pole position, when the other two have somewhat missed their qualification and will start further away. With, in addition, a Darryn Binder on the second row, a John McPhee boosted for his team's home GP or even a Tatsuki Suzuki who wants to put an end to his unlucky streak, this Grand Prix should keep all its promises in terms of show.

But for now, it's time for the warm-up, which will allow all these beautiful people to sort out the last details on their machine before the big start which will be given at 5 a.m. (French time).

Here is the summary table of the times:

Moto3 Sepang™	2018	2019
FP1	2'25.290 Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	2'18.921s Andrea Migno
FP2	2'14.227 Tony Arbolino	2'12.466 Kaito Toba
FP3	2'22.010 Nakarin Atiratphuvapat	2'11.673 Tatsuki Suzuki
Q1	XXX	2'12.390 Albert Arenas
Q2	2'11.731 Jorge Martin	2'11.758 Marcos Ramírez
Warm-up	2'27.951 Arón Canet	2'12.523 Albert Arenas
Course	Martin, Dalla Porta, Bastianini
All time lap record	2'11.731 Jorge Martin	2'11.673 Tatsuki Suzuki

Teammates Leopard and Petronas are the first to hit the track. Ayumu Sasaki also made a mistake in his first flying lap. During this time, Ramirez sets the reference time in 2'13.339.

Tom Booth-Amos is too aggressive in a turn and causes the rider to fall Makar Yurchenko.

Albert Arenas improves the best time by eight tenths and still leads at mid-session in front Jaume Masia, Raúl Fernández, Celestino Vietti et Andrea Migno. Then come Tony Arbolino, Suzuki et Dallas Port. Ramirez et Filip Salac complete the top 10.

gabriel rodrigo comes in second place and Andrea Migno to the third, whileArenas continues the fast laps in the lead.

Nobody comes to improve the timeArenas, who therefore takes first place ahead of Ramirez. Canet et Arbolino are eighth and 12th.

Moto3 Malaysian Grand Prix warm-up standings at Sepang:

1	75	Albert Arenas	KTM	2'12.523
	42	Marcos RAMÍREZ	Honda	2'12.742	0.219
3	19	Gabriel RODRIGO	Honda	2'12.752	0.229
4	16	Andrea MIGNO	KTM	2'12.758	0.235
5	48	Lorenzo FROM THE DOOR	Honda	2'12.817	0.294
6	55	Roman FENATI	Honda	2'12.828	0.305
7	5	Jaume MASIÁ	KTM	2'12.866	0.343
8	17	John MCPHEE	Honda	2'12.898	0.375
9	44	Arón CANET	KTM	2'12.922	0.399
10	25	Raul FERNÁNDEZ	KTM	2'12.943	0.420
11	24	Tatsuki SUZUKI	Honda	2'13.095	0.572
12	13	Celestino VIETTI	KTM	2'13.112	0.589
13	14	Tony ARBOLINO	Honda	2'13.137	0.614
14	21	Alonso LÓPEZ	Honda	2'13.180	0.657
15	27	Kaito TOBA	Honda	2'13.288	0.765
16	12	Philip SALAC	KTM	2'13.436	0.913
17	11	Sergio GARCIA	Honda	2'13.447	0.924
18	79	To OGURA	Honda	2'13.461	0.938
19	82	Stefano NEPA	KTM	2'13.509	0.986
20	84	Jakub KORNFEIL	KTM	2'13.568	1.045
21	23	Niccolo ANTONELLI	Honda	2'13.660	1.137
22	7	Dennis FOGGIA	KTM	2'13.744	1.221
23	76	Makar YURCHENKO	KTM	2'13.785	1.262
24	22	Kazuki MASAKI	KTM	2'13.967	1.444
25	69	Tom BOOTH-AMOS	KTM	2'14.010	1.487
26	54	Riccardo ROSSI	Honda	2'14.062	1.539
27	40	Darryn BINDER	KTM	2'14.480	1.957
28	61	Can ÖNCÜ	KTM	2'14.911	2.388
	71	Ayumu SASAKI	Honda