The German Marcel Schrotter as Kalex was the best rider on the first day of free practice Moto2 Portuguese Grand Prix at the Portimao circuitwhich took place in dire weather conditions.
schrotter got a best final time of 2:00.678 who climbed him to the first position, the only driver who rolled in that second and who was almost half a second ahead of his closest pursuers, the British Jake Dixon (Kalex), and just over six tenths of the Americans Cameron Beaubier (Kalex) and Joe Roberts (Kalex), who had two falls throughout the day.
Far from improving, the weather conditions worsened as the minutes went by and the Moto2 riders faced an increasingly complicated Portimao tarmac and if in the morning it was surprising the performance of the Dutch Zonta Van der Goorbergh (Kalex)the fastest then, did not take long to establish himself as the protagonist, this time after suffering a high-speed crash at the entrance to turn eight.
He was not the only one, because he was succeeded by the Spanish Pedro Acosta (Kalex), Moto3 world champion in 2021, who “surfed” on his motorcycle in turn onebut the Belgian Barry Baltus (Kalex) and the Spanish Albert Arenas (Kalex) also went down.in turn thirteen, like the Belgian, Fermin Aldeguer (Boscoscuro)at turn one, or Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex)in turn four, who arrived pushing the motorcycle to his workshop.
Like them, the American Joe Roberts (Kalex), was another of the protagonists of some incidentthe second of this first day for him, when he crashed at turn eleven, like Augusto Fernández (KTM), who fell at turn thirteen, an area of the track that is reached in first gear in this category and which, therefore, is taken at a very low speed.
In any case, Augusto Fernández was the best Spaniard of the day in the category by achieving the sixth fastest time, just ahead of the winner in Austin, the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and with Arón Canet (Kalex), in eighth place .
Albert Arenas achieved eleventh position and therefore within the second direct classification, as well as the Thai Keminth Kubo (Kalex), the world leaderthe Italian Celestino Vietti (Kalex) and his compatriot Alessandro Zaccone (Kalex).
The Italian Romano Fenati (Boscoscuro), the Czech Filip Salac (Kalex) or the Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex) were left out of it for a very short time, in addition to the Spaniards Pedro Acosta, Jeremu Alcoba, Marcos Ramírez (MV Agusta), Fermín Aldeguer, Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex) and Jorge Navarro (Kalex).