125 cc – Brno FP2 – Luthi in the lead

Brno is one of his favorite tracks. He has always shown a certain feeling with the Czech Republic track, where he has always achieved excellent results but also some important crashes. Slips or not, Thomas Luthi achieved the best performance in the second free practice session of the 125cc in Brno, the last before the decisive round of Official Qualifying scheduled for this afternoon starting at 13,15pm. With the Elit team's Honda, the championship leader stopped the clock at 2'09.139, a time that reworked his personal best performance achieved a few minutes before the checkered flag. Red helmet therefore for the very young Swiss rider, who has already confirmed that he wants to race in 125 next season too, ahead of a Marco Simoncelli who is decidedly in form and only 291 thousandths behind his rival in the championship.

In third position we find the first surprise, Sergio Gadea, who appeared like an autumn mushroom with the Aprilia of Aspar Martinez's Master team, then closing the hypothetical first row was Gabor Talmacsi, best of the KTM riders. Behind him, with 45 minutes of testing dedicated exclusively to setting up for the race, the super-poleman Mika Kallio, who in qualifying will have to defend the provisional pole position won yesterday in 2'08 ″ 875. As you can see from the chronometric comparison, very high times in this second free practice session, which also offers the Kopron Racing World team's rise with Mike Di Meglio sixth and Fabrizio Lai eighth, with the Frenchman from AJO Motorsport Masbou in the middle.

In ninth position we find Lorenzo Zanetti, while Mattia Pasini crashed in 13th, two positions ahead of an unconvincing Manuel Poggiali. Among the pleasant surprises was seeing the son of art Stefan Bradl twelfth with one of the five KTM RR125s in the race, with a few thousandths of a disadvantage over Julian Simon who still won in the universal deluge of Donington Park... At 13.15pm the second round of Official Qualifying : 30 minutes which will not be enough for the 41 125cc riders to find the right feeling less than 24 hours before the race, but enough to give the assault to the implacable poleman Mika Kallio...

Alessio Piana