125cc – Motegi FP1 – Pol Espargaro in the lead

The fourth last round of the 125 MotoGP World Championship, the Japanese Grand Prix on the Twin Ring in Motegi, begins with the first free practice session reserved for 2007cc models. Forty-five minutes available for the young protagonists of the eighth-litre class, enough to show the extraordinary state of form of the very young man (16 years old, born in 1991) Pol Espargaro: best time in 1'59"328, 33 thousandths of an advantage over the championship leader Gabor Talmacsi. “Polito”, fresh from the first podium of his career in the MotoGP world championship achieved five days ago in Estoril, set the best time in the final, preceding the aforementioned Talmacsi, Simone Corsi's Aprilia (68 thousandths of a gap) and his compatriots Hector Faubel and Nicolas Terol, the latter returning to the top after practically an entire season spent with the lights off.

Sixth is the home idol Tomoyoshi Koyama (#1 favorite for Sunday's victory), ahead of Gadea, Raffaele De Rosa and Mattia Pasini, only ninth in the ranking, a few tenths better than Lukas Pesek, Bradley Smith and an excellent Andrea Iannone , 12th. Now the MotoGP bikes are ready to take to the track at the Twin Ring, while the 125cc will return to action at 6.05 am Italian time for the first round of official qualifying.