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With the track reaching over forty degrees as the afternoon sessions started, the Moto3 grid struggled to reach the morning times but had a good look at the tyres in potential race conditions.
Otherwise, the lap cancellation festival continued. Morning leader Enea Bastianini looked in good form despite some cancelled lap times of his own seeing him linger towards the end of the top ten before a final charge that gave him back top spot on the timesheets.
With the electrical issue that shortened his morning session solved, Brad Binder went back out on a mission, the endeavour successful in bringing him back to second position but also seeing several times cancelled for going out wide in the last turn.
Much like the morning session, some of the biggest challengers proved to be Joan Mir in third spot and Jakub Kornfeil in fourth, although the duo was around half a second slower than the top two riders.
Fabio di Giannantonio and Jorge Navarro kept close too, only two hundreds of a second separating them from fourth position. On the other hand, Pecco Bagnaia lost a lot of track time with a clutch problem, only putting in eight laps before the issue put an end to his session.
Results:
Pos. | Num. | Rider | Bike | Time | Gap 1st | Prev. |
1 | 33 | Enea BASTIANINI | Honda | 1'42.805 | ||
2 | 41 | Brad BINDER | KTM | 1'42.974 | 0.169 | 0.169 |
3 | 36 | Joan MIR | KTM | 1'43.291 | 0.486 | 0.317 |
4 | 84 | Jakub KORNFEIL | Honda | 1'43.408 | 0.603 | 0.117 |
5 | 4 | Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO | Honda | 1'43.417 | 0.612 | 0.009 |
6 | 9 | Jorge NAVARRO | Honda | 1'43.436 | 0.631 | 0.019 |
7 | 11 | Livio LOI | Honda | 1'43.464 | 0.659 | 0.028 |
8 | 16 | Andrea MIGNO | KTM | 1'43.814 | 1.009 | 0.350 |
9 | 23 | Niccolò ANTONELLI | Honda | 1'43.858 | 1.053 | 0.044 |
10 | 88 | Jorge MARTIN | Mahindra | 1'43.879 | 1.074 | 0.021 |
11 | 8 | Nicolo BULEGA | KTM | 1'43.962 | 1.157 | 0.083 |
12 | 44 | Aron CANET | Honda | 1'43.966 | 1.161 | 0.004 |
13 | 55 | Andrea LOCATELLI | KTM | 1'43.980 | 1.175 | 0.014 |
14 | 58 | Juanfran GUEVARA | KTM | 1'43.998 | 1.193 | 0.018 |
15 | 12 | Albert ARENAS | Peugeot | 1'44.000 | 1.195 | 0.002 |
16 | 76 | Hiroki ONO | Honda | 1'44.051 | 1.246 | 0.051 |
17 | 95 | Jules DANILO | Honda | 1'44.074 | 1.269 | 0.023 |
18 | 17 | John MCPHEE | Peugeot | 1'44.178 | 1.373 | 0.104 |
19 | 64 | Bo BENDSNEYDER | KTM | 1'44.190 | 1.385 | 0.012 |
20 | 65 | Philipp OETTL | KTM | 1'44.195 | 1.390 | 0.005 |
21 | 48 | Lorenzo DALLA PORTA | KTM | 1'44.242 | 1.437 | 0.047 |
22 | 24 | Tatsuki SUZUKI | Mahindra | 1'44.254 | 1.449 | 0.012 |
23 | 62 | Stefano MANZI | Mahindra | 1'44.388 | 1.583 | 0.134 |
24 | 21 | Francesco BAGNAIA | Mahindra | 1'44.413 | 1.608 | 0.025 |
25 | 20 | Fabio QUARTARARO | KTM | 1'44.442 | 1.637 | 0.029 |
26 | 40 | Darryn BINDER | Mahindra | 1'44.565 | 1.760 | 0.123 |
27 | 19 | Gabriel RODRIGO | KTM | 1'44.874 | 2.069 | 0.309 |
28 | 7 | Adam NORRODIN | Honda | 1'44.905 | 2.100 | 0.031 |
29 | 6 | Maria HERRERA | KTM | 1'44.998 | 2.193 | 0.093 |
30 | 43 | Stefano VALTULINI | Mahindra | 1'45.082 | 2.277 | 0.084 |
31 | 89 | Khairul Idham PAWI | Honda | 1'45.130 | 2.325 | 0.048 |
32 | 42 | Marcos RAMIREZ | Mahindra | 1'45.196 | 2.391 | 0.066 |
33 | 3 | Fabio SPIRANELLI | Mahindra | 1'45.398 | 2.593 | 0.202 |
34 | 71 | Alex FABBRI | Mahindra | 1'45.835 | 3.030 | 0.437 |
35 | 77 | Lorenzo PETRARCA | Mahindra | 1'45.966 | 3.161 | 0.131 |
Comments
Binder and tow jobs
It's more than refreshing to see a rider do a qualifying lap without getting a tow job. More often than not Binder does not wait for a rider to get ahead of him in order to Qualify on the pole. Unlike the rider who ended up in 'first' positon today in Moto3. NOT saying Bastinini is a slouch, just didn't do it on his own.
MotoGP is starting to look more and more like Moto3 these days i.e. Pol Espargo the fastest rider today in MotoGP. Got a big time tow job to get there. Not saying hes slow, just saying............tired of riders who can't do it 'on their own'.