Moto2 Sepang, Warm Up: Pol Espargarò ahead of Smith and Marquez

The warm up of the Moto2 class in Sepang (stage of the third to last stage of the 2012 world championship) saw the 33 riders of the intermediate class of the world championship take to the track with 32° in the air, 48° on the asphalt and a humidity of 52% , typical of Malaysian weather.

The poleman "Polyccio" Espargarò, Team Pons driver aboard the Kalex, won the best time. The only rider who can "stop" Marquez today in the title race lapped in 2:07.945, a time 108 thousandths better than that set by a heroic Bradley Smith, who will race with two broken toes. Third at 175 thousandths is Marc Marquez, world championship leader with a 53-point advantage over Pol Espargarò.

Fourth time for the Finn Mika Kallio, on Kalex of the Marc VDS Racing Team. Behind him, the first of our team, Alex de Angelis from San Marino, riding the FTR of Team NGM Mobile Forward Racing. Andrea Iannone is seventh instead and with some more hope from a race perspective. The Speed ​​Up driver is preceded by the second Kalex of Team Pons, that of Esteve Rabat.

Closing out the Top Ten are Julian Simon with the Suter of Team Blusens Avintia, Scott Redding with the second Kalex of the Marc VDS Racing Team and the Frenchman Johann Zarco, riding the Motobi of Team JiR.

The other Italian drivers are Simone Corsi (FTR Ioda Racing) 12th and Alessandro Andreozzi, 29th with the second Speed ​​Up. Malaysian wild card Hafizh Syahrin finished in seventeenth position.