The three drivers will start in the front row at the Grand Prix held in the oceanic country
Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), Arón Canet (Kalex) and Alonso López (Boscoscuro), starred in the first plenary session of Spanish pilots on the first line of the race starting line-up and it was for the Moto2 Australian Grand Prix, which takes place on Sunday at the Phillip Island circuit.
Aldeguer, who set a new circuit record By running in 1:31.888 on his fifth lap, he broke the previous record of the category, which he himself had since yesterday with 1:32.128, in addition to achieving the third “pole position” of his sporting career, the first of 2023, along with those he obtained in Argentina and Australia last year. Alonso López, third in training, is the last winner of the Australian race, in which Fermín Aldeguer was fourth last year.
The Czech Filip Salac (Kalex) was the clearest reference in the first classification, leading from the beginning, from his second lap, while in his wake there were a few dances of names until the drop of the checkered flag. . In this dance of names, those who benefited were the Italian Celestino Vietti (Kalex), the Belgian Barry Baltus (Kalex) and the Dutch Zonta Van der Goorbergh (Kalex). Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex) and Izan Guevara (Kalex), among the Spanish, or the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) and the Italian Dennis Foggia (Kalex) were left out of the second classification.
Already in the second classification, it did not take long for the Spaniard Fermín Aldeguer to become the fastest in the category again, lapping his fifth lap in 1:31.888, which was more than three tenths of a second faster than his immediate pursuer, Arón Canet, and also broke the absolute record for this track for the category. The leader of world, Pedro Acosta, at that time he was in fifth position, although more than seven tenths from the head of the classification, something unusual in the “Tiburón” of Puerto de Mazarrón. The British Sam Lowes (Kalex), twelfth in the initial part of the classification, ended up having the sixteenth crash of the season, in turn four, with his motorcycle seriously damaged.
Nobody could beat Fermín Aldeguer, who will be accompanied on the first line by the also Spaniards Arón Canet and Alonso López, while the American Joe Roberts, the Spanish Pedro Acosta and the British Jake Dixon finished on the second. In the third will be the Spanish Sergio García Dols (Kalex), the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and the South African Darryn Binder (Kalex), with Manuel González (Kalex), Marcos Ramírez (Kalex) and Sam Lowes, who had the fortune of that no rival could lower his personal record, in the fourth.