The final Moto3 practice of this first day of action counting for the Grand Prix of the Americas ended with Ayumu Sasaki leading the times in an ever fiercer fight for Q2.
The session started under the constant threat of rain and Diogo Moreira crashed at turn 11, coming from a first practice session in which he had been the fastest. Andrea Migno also crashed shortly after, at turn 12, without gravity.
David Muñoz, Ayumu Sasaki and Diogo Moreira were the fastest with twenty minutes remaining. Still, Muñoz’s record did not beat Moreira’s this morning, leaving the Brazilian leading the provisional Q2 qualifier.
Jose Antonio Rueda suffered a violent seizure when he ran over a marker to change direction and lost the back and ended up being catapulted into the air. His session would end right there, before heading to the trackside medical center.
With ten minutes left, Masia was leading in 2:17.292, still short of Moreira’s record in the first practice: 2:16.9080. The top eleven were separated by less than a second, with Masia in the lead, followed by David Muñoz (+0.215s) and Ayumu Sasaki (+0.320s).
At the end of the passage in the garages, before the launch of the towers, Ivan Ortola was the first to lower the reference time. The fight for Q2 intensified on the track, with Jaume Masia in fine form in third behind Ortolá and new leader Ayumu Sasaki.
Masia managed to reach second place but failed to beat Sasaki.
Here’s what the second training session of the day looked like:
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