Moto2 Motegi, Free Practice 2: Marquez mocks Smith, the Italians do badly

World championship leader Marc Marquez set the best time in the second free practice session of the Moto2 class at the Twin Ring in Motegi, theater of the AirAsia Grand Prix of Japan, the fourth to last stage of the 2012 world championship. The Team Catalunya Caixa Repsol rider l 'he achieved it with a time of 1:51.834 (the only rider to break the 52:187 minute barrier) right under the checkered flag, beating the Briton of Tech 3 Bradley Smith by XNUMX thousandths.

Third is Scott Redding, with the Kalex of the Marc VDS Racing Team. The Anglo-Saxon driver who lapped in 1:52.160 left behind his brand mate "Polyccio" Espargarò, the Swiss from the Interwetten-Paddock team Thomas Luthi and Esteve "Tito" Rabat, with the second Kalex from Team Pons.

Nico Terol had a good session, finishing seventh on the Suter of Team Aspar. Behind the 2011 125cc world champion we find the Japanese Team Italtrans Takaaki Nakagami, his compatriot Julian Simon and the Finnish Mika Kallio to close the Top Ten. To understand how close the session was, we point out that the top ten are in the space of 734 thousandths and the twelfth, the Roman Simone Corsi (FTR Ioda Racing), is 808 from the top (for him even a fall without consequences at the end of the session) .

Further back is Andrea Iannone, who slipped immediately at the start of the session without any physical consequences. Once back in the saddle, the Speed ​​Master team rider did not go beyond the 25th time, while the San Marino Alex de Angelis with the FTR of the NGM Mobile Forward Racing Team was 20th. Alessandro Andreozzi is 28th, while Toni Elias who from this race replaces the dismounted Claudio Corti is 17th at 1"129.