The Spanish Raul Fernandez (Kalex) domino with solvency the first day of the Moto2 Grand Prix of the Americas on the way to his sixth pole position in the season of his debut in the intermediate category of the motorcycle world championships.
Fernandez achieved a best time of 2: 09.880 Almost two tenths of a second ahead of his own teammate, Australian Remy Gardner, who had to solve some problemss mechanics throughout the second free end.
Raúl Fernández, the fastest in the morning session, also commanded the second, although this time with some of the the “classics” of the category in its wakeLike the British Sam Lowes (Kalex) or the Italians Marco Bezzecchi (Kalex) and Tony Arbolino (Kalex), with the Australian Remy Gardner (Kalex), at that time, in more backward positions.
Activity in the workshops was more intense than usual, looking for all the pilots a good set-up that can be used for the weekend in anticipation that on the second day of practice it could rain like in the first in the morning.
In the case of the Australian Remy Gardner the work was somewhat more arduous Well, in the middle of the session the Australian had to stop at his workshop for the mechanics to carry out a much more complex intervention, having to disassemble the motorcycle’s cooling radiator and some other parts that were out of the ordinary on these occasions, probably with some crack or blow in that element.
Once he returned to the track, the Australian was quick to “recharge” and in just a couple of laps he had positioned himself behind the slipstream of his teammate, to 199 thousandths of a second, still with the possibility of completing a couple more laps.
In those last laps there was hardly classification head changes, with the two Red Bull KTM team riders topping the table, Raúl Fernández and Remy Gardner, followed by almost half a second, which gives a clear example of his superiority, by Sam Lowes (Kalex), with Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and the Spanish Arón Canet (Boscoscuro) and Augusto Fernández (Kalex) A little further back. Initially also in the second classification are the Italians Simone Corsi (MV Agusta) and Marco Bezzecchi, the British Jake Dixon, the German Marcel Schrotter, the Spanish Marcos Ramírez and Xavier Vierge, the Japanese Ai Ogura and the American Cameron Beauvier, all of them on Kalex trails.
They did not achieve their objective, a priori, pilots like the Italian Fabiodi Giannantonio (Kalex) or the Dutch Bo Bendsneyder (Kalex), who in the morning had been among the fastest, and the Spanish Albert Arenas (Boscoscuro), Fermín Aldeguer (Boscoscuro), Jorge Navarro (Boscoscuro) and Héctor Garzó (Kalex), among others.
