News 28 Sep 2014

Moto3 pole to Aragon local Rins as good form continues

Aussie ace Miller to start from row two at Motorland Aragon.

Source: MotoGP.

Source: MotoGP.

Moto3 QP at the Gran Premio Movistar de Aragon on Saturday afternoon in Spain saw Alex Rins secure pole, ahead of Danny Kent and Juanfran Guevara on the front row.

At his local track the form rider of the class Rins (Estrella Galicia 0,0) secured his fourth pole position of 2014 with a fastest time of 1m58.318 which put him 0.116s ahead of Englishman Kent (Red Bull Husqvarna Ajo).

Guevara (Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3) rounded out the front row 0.152s off Rins’ time, having also set a sensational lap time of 1m57.930 in FP3.

World championship leader Jack Miller (Red Bull KTM Ajo) should be in the hunt tomorrow from the front of row two, where he is joined by Alex Marquez (Estrella Galicia 0,0) and Enea Bastianini (Junior Team Go&FUN Moto3).

The third row will feature Isaac Viñales (Calvo Team), John McPhee (SaxoPrint-RTG) and Niccolo Antonelli (Junior Team GO&FUN). Efren Vazquez (SaxoPrint-RTG) completed the top ten, whilst engine problems for Niklas Ajo (Avant Tecno Husqvarna Ajo) left him down in 26th.

There was an early crash for Andrea Locatelli (San Carlo Team Italia), which saw the Italian rider spend much of the session in the Medical Centre for a finger injury. Jasper Iwema (CIP) was another faller, losing his fairing. Francesco Bagnaia (SKY Racing Team VR46) also took a heavy fall but walked away unhurt.

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