The Spaniard was the fastest in Misano ahead of the Japanese Sasaki and Toba
The Spanish Jaume Masia (Honda) achieved the seventh pole position of his racing career by being the fastest in the official classification for the San Marino Grand Prix on the “Marco Simoncelli” circuit in Misano Adriatico.
Masiá set a best time of 1:41.638, beating his immediate pursuers, the Japanese, by around two and a half tenths of a second. Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna) and Kaito Toba (Sling).
The world leader, the Spanish Daniel Holgado (KTM), had to go through the “calvary” from the first classification after some bad free practice, but from the first moments of it he became the protagonist by setting the pace for all his rivals.
Maybe that’s why there were many who wanted “follow the wheel” of Holgado, who “did away” from all of them by going wide in one of the curves of the circuit to return at the tail of the group and without problems seal his passage to the second classification with the best time.
Together with Holgado the Italian moved to the second classification Riccardo Rossi (Honda), the Australian joel kelso (CFMoto) and Spanish David Munoz (KTM), who made a huge mistake at the beginning of the classification when he suffered an accident, which forced him to return to his workshop without the motorcycle, although it arrived in time to be repaired and, with just enough time, to go out on the track to get the fourth best time, which gave him the pass to the second classification.
In the second classification it did not take long for the first symptomatic event to occur, as the Japanese Ayumu Sasaki (Husqvarna), Daniel Holgado’s most direct rival in the fight for the championship lead, crashed at the first change in turn thirteen, without initially being able to start his bike, although in the end he was able to get back on it. workshop.
Holgado and Muñoz, who arrived “hot“From the first classification, they were the first protagonists by climbing to the leading positions, although it did not take long for the Spanish Jaume Masiá (Honda) to become a reference, who had been the dominator of the free practice sessions on the first day .
Masiá set the first reference record at 1:42.117, which the Turk came within just five thousandths of a second. Deniz Öncü (KTM), while the Brazilian Diogo Moreira (KTM), behind them, climbed to first place by lapping in 1:42.002 on his second lap.
Still with half a qualifying session ahead, the drivers “adjusted“The tuning of your motorcycles stops in a second”time attack“try to defeat the Brazilian Moreira, much more effective and successful than in Catalonia, a circuit through which he spent almost “tiptoe“.
Sasaki, who saw his qualifying phase greatly affected by the fall suffered, returned in time to try to improve your situation In the time table and at the first changes he was sixth.
But from behind, the “slipstream game” benefited drivers who have their team headquarters near the Misano Adriatico track, as is the case of the Japanese Kaito Toba (Honda), driver of the team of Paolo Simoncelli, The father of the deceased Marco Simoncelli climbed to first place, but there were still a few seconds of official training left that were very intense and changed the final order.
With Toba in the lead, his compatriot Ayumi Sasaki arrived with the conviction of getting rid of the bad luck of his fall and took first place from him, but Jaume Masiá, the real protagonist of the first day of training in Misano Adriatico, regained the spotlight and added his third pole position when rolling in 1:41.638.
With Masiá at the head of the starting formation, the Japanese Sasaki and Toba will be on the first line, with the Brazilian Moreira, the Turkish Öncü and the Colombian of Spanish origin, David Alonso (Gas Gas), on the second line, the Spanish David Muñoz, the world leader Daniel Holgado and the Italian Stefano Nepa (KTM), in the third.
The revelation of the season, the Dutchman collin veijer (Husqvarna), with the Australian Joel Kelso and the Spanish José Antonio Rueda (KTM), finished in the fourth line, and the Spanish in the fifth Ivan Ortola (KTM) and the Japanese Taiyo Furusato (Honda) and Ryusei Yamanaka (KTM).