Moto2 Mugello, Free Practice 1: Pol Espargarò ahead of Iannone

The Moto2 class riders closed the first free practice session as usual. At Mugello, the ninth stage and turning point of the 2012 world championship, the best time was won by “Polyccio” Espargarò who brought his Kalex ahead of everyone with a time of 1:53.139, a time already below the track record Tuscany.

The Team Pons 40 HP Tuenti rider preceded our Andrea Iannone by just 90 thousandths, riding the Speed ​​Up of Team Speed ​​Master. The Abruzzo rider, who is fourth in the general classification with 104 points against Marquez's 152, precedes the Swiss Thomas Luthi riding the Suter of Team Interwetten-Paddock, the British Bradley Smith riding the Tech 3, the aforementioned Marc Marquez (Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol +339 thousandths) and the Roman from Ioda Racing Simone Corsi.

Seventh is Scott Redding, riding the Kalex of the Mard VDS Racing Team. The Briton who pays just over half a second from Espargarò is followed by the Swiss Randy Krummenacher, by our Claudio Corti (Kalex Team Italtrans) and by the Finn Mika Kallio, on the podium in the last race held in Germany and which closes the Top Ten.

Alex de Angelis from San Marino, also on the podium at the Sachsenring, is thirteenth, 1.382 from the top. He had some problems at the start of the session on his FTR from Team NGM Mobile Forward Racing. The other Italian riders are Alessandro Andreozzi 23rd, Roberto Rolfo 24th and the "debutant" Massimo Roccoli, here for the first time riding a Moto2, to be precise the Bimota of Team Desguaces La Torre SAG. The twenty-seven year old who usually races in the Supersport championship pays 2.583 from Pol Espargarò's best times.