Austin (United States), Apr 14 (EFE).- The Spanish Pedro Acosta (Kalex) ’embroidered’ it at the end of the second round of the first day of free practice of the Moto2 Grand Prix of the Americas, which was held in the COTA circuit (Circuit of The Americas), by achieving a best time of 2:09.856.
Acosta surpassed by more than two tenths of a second the Italian Tony Arbolino (Kalex) and the also Spanish Arón Canet (Kalex), third, with the American Joe Roberts (Kalex) and the British Jake Dixon (Kalex), the fastest for the tomorrow, behind them.
The appearance of rain in the initial minutes of the second Moto2 session made many riders choose to follow the evolution of their rivals on their workshop monitors, while those on the track were far from the best times in the morning.
Despite the conditions, with the passing of minutes the state of the asphalt allowed almost all the pilots to increase the pace and among the first to benefit from this situation to reduce their time was the “Shark” from Puerto de Mazarrón, Pedro Acosta , although it was not worth it, in the first instance, to improve the fourth place it occupied at that time.
The one who did improve and gain many places in the standings was another Spaniard, Albert Arenas (Kalex), who finished in eighteenth position in the morning and then, in a first “time attack”, rose to eleventh place after scratching almost a second and a half to his best morning time, which he improved even more to move up to seventh position, between the British Sam Lowes (Kalex) and the Thai Somkiat Chantra (Kalex).
With the track conditions improving by the second, the final moments were very intense and with many of the drivers lowering their personal bests and after the aforementioned Acosta, Arbolino, Canet, Roberts or Dixon, participants of the stature of the South African Darryn achieved it. Binder (Kalex), or the Spanish Fermín Aldeguer (Speed Up), who managed to get into the second direct classification, not the Italian Celetino Vietti (Kalex), who finished behind him.
Among those who failed to improve their personal records were the Thai Somkiat Chantra, the Spanish Alonso López or the Czech Filip Salac, although in all three cases their direct, provisional classification for Q2 was not in danger.
His time did not improve and neither did the pass to the second direct classification, the Spanish Jeremy Alcoba (Kalex), nor did they achieve it, although they did lower their best times, Manuel “Manugas” González (Kalex), Sergio García Dols (Kalex), Marcos Ramírez (Kalex), Izan Guevara (Kalex), Borja Gómez (Kalex) or David Sanchís (Kalex), among the Spaniards.
Juan Antonio Lladós
