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While everyone was expecting to see Pol Espargaro lead the way on Day 1 of Moto2 testing at Jerez, this year’s title favourite got a little surprise from Toni Elias who posted the best time of the day.
The former Moto2 World champion and Blusens Avintia rider was able to lap in 1:43.365 with his Kalex and he proceeded Tuenti HP 40 duo Esteve Rabat (who led session 1) and Pol Espargaró by 0.059s and 0.286s respectively, in what turned out to be a very tight second session as there were 14 riders in less than a second.
Italtrans duo Takaaki Nakagami and Julián Simón were fourth and fifth fastest while Mika Kallio finished in sixth, making it six riders on Kalex’s in the top six.
Breaking the Kalex hegemony was Alex de Angelis on the NGM Forward branded Speed Up and he was followed by two Suter riders Nico Terol (Aspar Team) and Johann Zarco (Iodaracing Project), while Xavier Simeon closed out the top ten.
All the teams have finally received their spec 2013 Honda race engines that have been prepared and are supplied by Fundación Moto Engineering.
Jerez testing continues on Tuesday, but heavy rains are expected to hamper tomorrow’s full day of testing.
Moto2 Test Jerez - Day 1 results:
1 24 Toni ELIAS KALEX 1:43.365
2 80 Esteve RABAT PONS KALEX 1:43.424 0.059
3 40 Pol ESPARGARO PONS KALEX 1:43.651 0.286
4 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI KALEX 1:43.664 0.299
5 60 Julian SIMON KALEX 1:43.747 0.382
6 36 Mika KALLIO KALEX 1:43.774 0.409
7 15 Alex DE ANGELIS SPEED UP 1:43.925 0.560
8 18 Nicolas TEROL SUTER 1:43.931 0.566
9 5 Johann ZARCO SUTER 1:43.996 0.631
10 19 Xavier SIMEON KALEX 1:44.029 0.664
2 80 Esteve RABAT PONS KALEX 1:43.424 0.059
3 40 Pol ESPARGARO PONS KALEX 1:43.651 0.286
4 30 Takaaki NAKAGAMI KALEX 1:43.664 0.299
5 60 Julian SIMON KALEX 1:43.747 0.382
6 36 Mika KALLIO KALEX 1:43.774 0.409
7 15 Alex DE ANGELIS SPEED UP 1:43.925 0.560
8 18 Nicolas TEROL SUTER 1:43.931 0.566
9 5 Johann ZARCO SUTER 1:43.996 0.631
10 19 Xavier SIMEON KALEX 1:44.029 0.664
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