Lowes quickest in Misano Moto2™ FP1

A 1: 37.245 in Moto2™ FP1 at the Gran Premio Lenovo di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini gave Sam Lowes (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) high effect by over two tenths from World Championship leader Luca Marini (SKY Racing Team VR46). Marini’s teammate and Styrian GP winner Marco Bezzecchi rounded out the stay three after the hole session at the Italian’s home wander.

To birth with of the session, the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli caught out some riders. Remy Gardner (Onexox TKKR SAG Team), Augusto Fernandez (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) and Marcel Schrötter (Liqui Moly Intact GP) were crashers within the early stages because the Moto2™ field got to grips with the brand new surface.

Lowes didn’t come upon any troubles despite the indisputable truth that. The British rider will prefer to birth from pitlane for the San Marino GP after his Styrian GP rupture, nonetheless it become the number 22 who effect the dash within the intermediate class from home heroes Marini and Bezzecchi. Despite his early rupture, Schrötter done P4 in FP1, with title contender Enea Bastianini (Italtrans Racing Team) picking up the closing high 5 blueprint – 0.540 motivate from Lowes’ effort, which become 1.3 seconds faster than Moto2™ FP1 in 2019 at the venue. 

Tune in for Moto2™ FP2 at 15: 10 (GMT+2) to question who will raise Friday honours!

Prime 10:

1. Sam Lowes (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) – 1: 37.245

2. Luca Marini (SKY Racing Team VR46) + 0.230

3. Marco Bezzecchi (SKY Racing Team VR46) + 0.348

4. Marcel Schrötter (Liqui Moly Intact GP) + 0.452

5. Enea Bastianini (Italtrans Racing Team) + 0.540

6. Aron Canet (Oceanica Aspar Team) + 0.599

7. Tetsuta Nagashima (Pink Bull KTM Ajo) + 0.644

8. Lorenzo Baldassarri (FlexBox HP40) + 0.681

9. Nicolo Bulega (Federal Oil Gresini Moto2) + 0.684

10. Augusto Fernandez (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) + 0.760