“I have a better feeling with the bike and I’m faster. We worked well from the morning, the situation with the track is a bit difficult for everybody because the track has a lot less grip compared to last year. So you have to manage this, to find the right balance with the bike but today I think we worked well, in the afternoon we were able to improve.
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In the final part of the lap, including the fast and flowing Turns 12, 13 and 14, it’s the Yamaha M1 of Fabio Quartararo who ended fastest by an impressive 0.189. Again, however, the Yamaha M1 is joined by Danilo Petrucci’s Bologna bullet and the ever-improving KTM, on this occasion ridden by Johann Zarco.
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“I’m very happy that we took another step in the project, which basically happened around Jerez,” said Beirer to Crafar, commenting about the steps forward the Austrian factory is making this year. “We had the parts there, we didn’t use them in the race but in the test after the race. We made a good step forward but then with the test results, you’re still nervous. You want to prove it in a race, so we can see we made a step forward, then we went to Mugello, which was a terrible track for us last year and we could show some highlights on the Free Practice days; the Friday and Saturday.
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Temperatures rose in the afternoon after cooler, cloudy conditions were the order of play in FP1, with it seemingly having a negative effect for plenty of the Moto2™ riders. Neither Lüthi, Marquez, Navarro – the Spaniard crashing in FP2 – unable to better their Friday morning times. Fernandez was one of those who managed to go quicker in the afternoon, but it wasn’t by much. Less than a tenth was the Spaniard’s improvement late in FP2 to top said session, but it wasn’t enough to claw him past the fastest three – 0.109 covering the top four, with the ever-impressing Enea Bastianini (Italtrans Racing Team) another one of those riders who failed to go quicker in FP2. Fifth overall and top rookie for ‘The Beast’ in Barcelona, with the Kalex rider also taking P5 in FP2.
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We got it. The next two days brought some of the most scenic riding any of us had ever enjoyed. The Cassiar delivered miles and miles of gently swooping turns through some of Canada’s oldest old-growth forest. We had several bear sightings, but saw no ice road truckers and passed almost no other motorists. Dease Lake was a bit bleak, so we stopped for breakfast a bit south at the delightful Tatogga Lake Resort, eating a hearty meal in a knotty pine dining room surrounded by stuffed moose, elk, grizzly, wolves, and deer.
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Mugello race winner Danilo Petrucci (Mission Winnow Ducati), a P18 finisher in FP1, closes out Day 1 in eighth, with Marquez the only rider in the 23-man strong field to not go quicker in FP2 – P9 for the seven-time Champion, but he didn’t use a new soft tyre in the second session. Fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol) rounds out a top ten covered by just 0.623, the Briton climbing one place from his P11 in FP1.
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Mugello race winner Danilo Petrucci (Mission Winnow Ducati), a P18 finisher in FP1, closes out Day 1 in eighth, with Marquez the only rider in the 23-man strong field to not go quicker in FP2 – P9 for the seven-time Champion, but he didn’t use a new soft tyre in the second session. Fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol) rounds out a top ten covered by just 0.623, the Briton climbing one place from his P11 in FP1.
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VNE Snipers’ Romano Fenati went slightly quicker this afternoon to end eighth overall, just ahead of Albert Arenas (Sama Qatar Angel Nieto) and Niccolo Antonelli (SIC58 Squadra Corse). Also provisionally holding a place straight in Q2 ahead of FP3 on Saturday morning are Kaito Toba (Honda Team Asia), Kazuki Masaki (BOE Skull Rider Mugen Race), Marcos Ramirez (Leopard Racing) and Makar Yurchenko (BOE Skull Rider Mugen Race).
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