2022 Phillip Island Moto2 FP3 Result: Lopez Leaps Ahead

By Zara Daniela | Sat, 15/10/2022 - 00:51

Phillip Island greeted the intermediate class with a nearly spotless blue sky and delightfully dry asphalt – and no one was more delighted than Alonso Lopez, the freshly sanctioned Spaniard promptly putting one second into his rivals, who spent the rest of the session catching up. There were several challengers but the closest came teammate Fermín Aldeguer, the rookie closing to three tenths of a second behind his compatriot. Augusto Fernandez and Aron Canet added some more Spanish flour to the top four, with Jake Dixon breaking the stronghold by taking fifth.

Pedro Acosta probably had the least experience of the lot when it came to Phillip Island, never racing the track before and having missed the entirety of FP1 due to crash damage, but the rookie did great to claim sixth on the timesheets. Tony Arbolino left it late to improve but did so to take seventh position, while Joe Roberts, Bo Bendsneyder and Filip Salac rounded out the top 10, as the final men to post a time within a second of the leader.

Title contender Ai Ogura had a subdued morning down in 11th position, ahead of Jeremy Alcoba and Cameron Beaubier, but the same could not be said of Sam Lowes, who took a fast and late tumble at turn eight. The Marc VDS man just about held onto a precious Q2 ticket by five hundredths of a second, with Manuel Gonzalez missing out alongside Albert Arenas (who also ended the morning with a similar tumble) and Celestino Vietti. Meanwhile, Somkiat Chantra didn’t even get a lap in, having crashed on the outlap at the infamous turn eight.

Results:

Pos No. Rider Bike Time Diff Prev
1 21 Alonso Lopez Boscoscuro 1:32.616    
2 54 Fermín Aldeguer Boscoscuro 1:32.934 0.318 0.318
3 37 Augusto Fernandez Kalex 1:32.993 0.377 0.059
4 40 Aron Canet Kalex 1:33.090 0.474 0.097
5 96 Jake Dixon Kalex 1:33.194 0.578 0.104
6 51 Pedro Acosta Kalex 1:33.503 0.887 0.309
7 14 Tony Arbolino Kalex 1:33.544 0.928 0.041
8 16 Joe Roberts Kalex 1:33.552 0.936 0.008
9 64 Bo Bendsneyder Kalex 1:33.584 0.968 0.032
10 12 Filip Salac Kalex 1:33.614 0.998 0.030
11 79 Ai Ogura Kalex 1:33.683 1.067 0.069
12 52 Jeremy Alcoba Kalex 1:33.777 1.161 0.094
13 6 Cameron Beaubier Kalex 1:33.778 1.162 0.001
14 22 Sam Lowes Kalex 1:33.835 1.219 0.057
15 18 Manuel Gonzalez Kalex 1:33.892 1.276 0.057
16 75 Albert Arenas Kalex 1:34.015 1.399 0.123
17 19 Lorenzo Dalla Porta Kalex 1:34.056 1.440 0.041
18 13 Celestino Vietti Kalex 1:34.144 1.528 0.088
19 24 Simone Corsi MV Agusta 1:34.321 1.705 0.177
20 4 Sean Dylan Kelly Kalex 1:34.687 2.071 0.366
21 28 Niccolň Antonelli Kalex 1:34.930 2.314 0.243
22 23 Marcel Schrotter Kalex 1:35.025 2.409 0.095
23 9 Jorge Navarro Kalex 1:35.064 2.448 0.039
24 7 Barry Baltus Kalex 1:35.167 2.551 0.103
25 61 Alessandro Zaccone Kalex 1:35.340 2.724 0.173
26 29 Taiga Hada Kalex 1:35.615 2.999 0.275
27 42 Marcos Ramirez MV Agusta 1:35.644 3.028 0.029
28 81 Keminth Kubo Kalex 1:36.248 3.632 0.604
Not Classified
  35 Somkiat Chantra Kalex   0.000 0.000
2022
18
Moto2
Phillip Island, Australia
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