There is a Valencian feel to the front of the Moto3 grid
with Jaume Masiá and Aron Canet taking up the first two positions. Masiá, who
qualified second at Aragón and in Thailand last season, will start from pole for
the first time in his career, with Canet narrowly missing out on repeating the
feat from Qatar. Tony Arbolino completes the front row as the fastest of five
Italians taking up the next five positions, ahead of Lorenzo dalla Porta,
Niccolò Antonelli, Andrea Migno and Romano Fenati. Series leader Kaito Toba is
just behind them in eighth.
The Sama Qatar Ángel Nieto Team are again in the mix
with Raúl Fernández qualifying in tenth position for the second race of the
season at Autódromo de Termas de Río Hondo tomorrow. Fernández is doing a great
job and is already impressively consistent in just his first season at this
level, and he is ready to race tomorrow. His teammate Aleix Viu was unfortunate
to crash in FP3, costing him some vital time to learn the bike and the track.
Despite the setback, Viu came back to qualify in 25th position,
missing out on Q2 by just three tenths.
10th Raúl Fernández
1:49.327: “We are doing a
great job, always in the top ten, but qualifying left a bad taste because I lost
time in the final sector on my last lap – the bike got a bit out of shape on the
way into the corner. We had a front row start in our grasp and the two or three
tenths that cost me would have been enough. Anyway, we are ready for tomorrow.
Hopefully it is not a wet race although if it is, it will be the same for
everybody.”
25th Aleix Viu
1:50.239:“I
am happy with the second day here in Argentina because I was only three tenths
off qualifying for Q2, even though this is a new track for me and I missed FP3
after crashing when I hit another rider on the ground. I hurt my hand and my
back, so that also made it difficult in qualifying. The team have done a great
job to set the bike up for Q1, but on my second run I wasn’t able to get with a
group and make use of a slipstream. I am feeling motivated, I dropped two
seconds off my lap time from yesterday to today and I know that if I had done
the third free practice I would have gone through to Q2”.
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