The Spaniard suffered a fall, although he was able to resume the race
The rookie Borja Gómez finished in twenty-second position
The Japanese Ai Ogura (Kalex), leader of the Moto2 world championship, ousted the Spanish Augusto Fernández (Kalex) from the first position in practiceone of the few riders who could not lower his record from the first day in the third and final free practice session for the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Sepang circuit.
Fernández finished 181 thousandths of a second behind Ogura, with the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex), Spaniard Alonso Lopez (Boscoscuro) and the British Jake Dixon (Kalex), behind them.
López was the outstanding protagonist of this third round because in addition to improving his personal best time starred in a “save” in the purest style of Marc Márquezlosing the front wheel at turn fifteen, a left-hander in which he supported his knee and elbow to regain traction and avoid a fall that seemed already sung.
In the end, Alonso López got fourth place at 451 thousandths of Ogura.
In that same curve fifteen in which Alonso López avoided a mishap, the leader of the first day of training, Augusto Fernández, crashedwho was able to start the bike and return to his workshop with the consequent disappointment and still as one of the few riders in the intermediate category who had not managed to improve his personal record, nor had his teammate, Pedro Acosta.
Acosta managed to improve his time but shortly afterwards he crashed at turn four, one of the most complicated on the track along with turn fifteen, but achieved the pass to the second classification with the eleventh fastest time in Moto2.
His colleague Fernández, after passing through his workshop to repair the damage to his motorcycle, was able to return to the track with eight minutes of training ahead in which to try to improve his personal time, although at that moment there was still no rival who had beaten his time and the one who was closest was the Italian Tony Arbolino at 223 thousandths of a second.
But in those final moments the Japanese Ai Ogura “applied” to the maximum and managed to get close to the Spanish until 65 thousandths of a second in his first final fast lap, to beat him by 181 thousandths of a second in the next one, by rolling in 2:06.635 and taking first place in free practice.
Highlighted the performance of the debutante borja gomez (Kalex), despite suffering a crash without consequences at turn four, which did not prevent him from continuing with the session, in which in the end, after lowering his time from the first day by more than a second, He finished in twenty-second position.
Aron Canet (Kalex), Pedro Acosta, Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex) and Albert Arenas (Kalex) also made the pass to the second classification, but not Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex), Marcos Ramírez (MV Agusta), Borja Gómez and David Sanchís (MV Agusta), who replaces the injured Simone Corsi. EFE
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