The Brazilian Moreira and the Italian Bertelle are the fastest on Moto2 and Moto3
BARCELONA, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish pilot Álex Márquez (Ducati) has been the fastest this Friday in the practice of the MotoGP Thailand Grand runner -up, the Italian Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), end at thirteenth place and be forced to go through Q1.
In this World Cup start, many things happened, but the highlight was to verify that the good result in the last preseason test for Álex Márquez was not a mirage, because the youngest of Cervera’s brothers was the fastest with his Ducati Satellite of Gresini Racing and marked a 1: 29.020 with which he surpassed the rest of the rivals.
In the absence of seeing the real potential in the qualification session, Álex Márquez starts strong on Friday and leading a table in which his brother Marc, on his first competitive day as an official pilot of the Ducati Lenovo Team, was second with that scarce deficit of 52 thousandths, after a good session in which he was comfortable. Marc tried to get the first place but did not count on his younger brother, and former partner in 2024 at the Gresini, snatched the best chrono.
Beyond that fraternal struggle to sign the best record, it surprised to see ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia, Marc Márquez’s partner in the official Ducati team, stay out of Q2. Something that had not happened once in 2024, throughout the previous World Cup, hence the big initial surprise in the International Circuit of Chang.
The current runner -up of the world ended thirteenth, but he complained angrily that his friend Franco Morbidelli, without seeing him coming from behind, bothered him in his final attempt to achieve a better time and avoid the passage through the Q1. In the absence of knowing if there is a sanction for the Italian, Bagnaia must sweat something else to be in the fight for the first ‘pole’.
And it was a session marked by some falls, such as Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) or Jack Miller (Yamaha), and many yellow flags that were annulled fast -back times. Despite the certain chaos, Pedro Acosta showed that the KTM is very fast in Thailand and it was third, 242 thousandths from Álex Márquez and surpassing the Italians Bezzecchi and Morbidelli (Ducati), fourth and fifth.
Great session for Honda, whose steps ahead seem clear. At least on Friday and in Buriram, since the Spanish world champion Joan Mir was sixth with the official motorcycle of the new Honda Hrc Castrol and the Frenchman Johann Zarco, with the satellite, was tenth. In a disparate practice, since the two satellite trackhouse, that of the Spanish Raúl Fernández and the Japanese Ai Ogura, occupied the seventh and ninth position respectively.
In addition to Bagnaia, the Spanish Maverick Viñales, eleventh at its premiere with the Red Bull Ktm Tech3, Brad Binder (KTM) or Jack Miller (decimocuto), with the Spaniards Álex Rins (Yamaha) in seventeenth place and Fermín Aldeguer (Ducati), with the second Gresini, was with the second Gresini, was Twentieth.
No Spanish domain in Moto2 or Moto3
In the Moto2 category the fastest was the Brazilian Diogo Moreira (Ittrans), which was imposed with a time of 1: 35,030 to Spanish Manuel González (Liqui Moly Dynavolt) and the Turkish Deniz Öncü (Red Bull Ktm), while in Moto3 the fastest of practice was the Italian Matteo Bertelle (Levelup-Mta), which surpassed his compatriot Stefano Nepa (SIC58) and Spanish José Antonio Rueda (Red Bull Ktm), third.