Moto2 – Jerez Test Day 2 – Elias is the fastest

The second day of the Moto2 tests in Jerez de la Frontera was characterized by alternating weather which saw alternating rain and wind. In the end the fastest on the track was the home rider Toni Elias. The standard bearer of Team Gresini in fact achieved a best time of 1'45"024, putting the BQR-M2 of Team Blusens of Yonny Hernandez and Kenny Noyes behind him (best time of 1'45"704 for him). Alex De Angelis also put in a good performance who, after yesterday's best time on damp asphalt, managed to get the fourth time aboard the Team Scot Moto2. Behind the San Marino driver, excellent performance for the two Forward Racing drivers; the Frenchman Julez Cluzel in fact achieved the fifth fastest time ahead of the excellent Claudio Corti. The 2009 SuperStock 1000 vice-champion preceded the Swiss Thomas Luthi and the returning Roberto Rolfo. After dislocating his shoulder in the Barcelona tests, the Team ItalTrans STR driver immediately returned among the protagonists. For him today 39 laps and a best time of 1:45.965.

Behind the 2003 world vice-champion were the Japanese Shoya Tomizawa (also with the Suter), the 2009 125cc world champion Julian Simon on the Italian RSV) and the two Pons Kalex of Sergio Gadea and Axel Pons. Behind the Pons Racing duo we find the Tech3 of Raffaele De Rosa, Alex Baldolini, the returning Alex Debon on FTR and the former Pramac Racing MotoGP rider Niccolò Canepa. Nineteenth and thirty-third times for Team Jir riders Mattia Pasini and Simone Corsi.

In the 125cc, however, the fastest rider was Marc Marquez, the Derbi standard-bearer lapped in 1'47"473 ahead of his compatriots Pol Espargarò, Efren Vazquez and Nicolas Terol. The tests will end tomorrow and the weather forecast seems to be favorable compared to yesterday and today.