Moto3 Barcelona, ​​Free Practice 3: Vinales precedes Khairuddin

Sun and already high temperatures for the third and final free practice session of the Moto3 in Barcelona (Circuit of Catalunya), scene of the fifth race of the 2012 world championship, a category which from this year replaces the eighth liters and which sees the German from KTM Sandro Cortese at the top of the world rankings.

The fastest of this round which precedes the qualifying which will start at 13.15pm was Maverick Vinales who stopped the clock on his FTR Honda with a time of 1:52.494. The Team Blusens Avintia rider preceded the Malaysian Zulfahmi Khairuddin, riding the KTM of Team AirAsia-Sic-Ajo, by more than seven tenths.

Third and fourth time for the KTM (Red Bull Ajo) of the British Danny Kent and the German Sandro Cortese. The world championship leader who lapped in 1:53.247 precedes the Frenchman Alexis Masbou, Alex Rins and Luis Salom.

Closing out the Top Ten are Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Estrella Galicia 0,0 – 1:53.507), French Louis Rossi (Racing Team Germany) and Alex Marquez (brother of Marc, 2010 125cc world champion and Moto2 rider of Team Catalunyacaixa Repsol).

The first of the Italian riders is Romano Fenati, twelfth with the FTR Honda of Team Italia. The others are Niccolò Antonelli fifteenth with the FTR Honda of Team Gresini, Alessandro Tonucci eighteenth with the second bike of Team Italia, Simone Grotzkyj twenty-third with the Suter Honda and “Gigio” Morciano, thirty-second with the Ioda of Team Italia managed by Giampiero Sacchi.