Augusto Fernandes teams with rain to dominate Moto2 free practice

Moto2 World Championship leader Augusto Fernandez (Kalex) takes the lead on the first day of free practice at the Japanese Grand Prix Moto2 at the ‘Twin Ring’ circuit in Motegi after being hit by rain on the final section of the session.

Until Augusto Fernandez The battle for the lead between Thailand’s Somkiat Chantra and Japan’s Ai Ogura has ended.Pedro Acosta (Carex) also interfered in the final section on both Carex roads, but the appearance of rain immobilized the positions they all occupied at the time, giving the world leaders first place.

The first and only Moto2 free practice session began with the same intensity as Moto3. After the first steps in the leadership of Alonso López (Boskosclaw), it was Alon Kane (Kalkus) who rose to the first position.just 37/1000ths ahead of Thailand’s Somkiat Chantra (Karex), while world leader Augusto Fernandez (Karex) of Spain was third.

On lap eight, Augusto Fernandez has already clocked a 1:51.926.exactly the same time that Japan’s Ai Ogura (Karex) achieved a few seconds later, but on the next lap Somkiat Chantra edged both by just seven-thousandths of a second.

The session was already in the ‘Time Attack’ phase, and the sky was getting cloudier and it was threatening to rain.

Somkiat Chantra’s registration was quickly pulled down by both Italian Tony Arbolino and Augusto Fernandez.but with over 20 minutes of training still remaining out of the 40 minutes of training scheduled by the organization for this one test round, the range of possibilities for the leading riders in this category is wide open. was

A close struggle was established between all of them for first place, which was frequently passed from one hand to another.On lap 12, Ai Ogura beat Arbolino’s best time (1:51.556) to 1:51.103, nearly half a second faster than any of her rivals.

The final minutes were a true pitching battle on the timetable with Fernandez and Chantra beating Ogura. He was the first to drop at 1:50, demoting the Japanese to third shortly after, but hostilities began on the track and the order changed from lap to lap.

Unexpectedly, it started raining in some areas of the track and the track conditions changed so drastically that people who hadn’t set a good time up until that moment were literally kicked out. And none of the Moto2 riders managed to beat the time until that moment.

Augusto Fernández set the best time in the category ahead of Somkiat Chantra with 1/84,000th of a second with Pedro Acosta (Kalex) in third place.Ai Ogura, Czech Philippe Salak (Karex), Tony Arbolino, Spain’s Alonso Lopez, Albert Arenas and Jorge Navarro followed by Great Britain’s Jake Dixon (Karex) in 10th place, Fermin Ardeguer (Boskoscro) ) was 11th.

Fifteenth-placed Alon Canett was ahead of Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) and Manuel González (Kalex), followed by second-placed Marcos Ramirez (MV Agusta) in 23rd.