The intermediate class completed their final practice outing in rather grey but dry conditions and it was a familiar picture at the top of the timing screens, with Jake Dixon hogging the limelight throughout FP2 and showing off solid race pace. Barry Baltus managed to close in to within a tenth of a second of the leader late on, while Aron Canet got right back up to speed after an eventful Friday and climbed into third place on his final flying lap – two tenths behind Dixon.
After leading the way on Friday, Manuel Gonzalez settled for 4th on Saturday morning, but continues to be another of the favourites for Sunday. Despite narrowly missing out on Q2, Deniz Öncü was quick in FP2 and joined the top five, ahead of Darryn Binder and Celestino Vietti – the South African the only rider of the trio who safely made it to Q2 on Friday.
Alonso Lopez, Filip Salac and Senna Agius completed the top 10 of the session, less than half a second slower than the leader. Although Dani Holgado held onto a Q2 place on Friday, David Alonso led the rookie battle on Saturday – finishing three places ahead of the Spaniard in 16th, despite an early off-track excursion.
Results:
Pos | No. | Rider | Bike | Time | Diff | Prev |
1 | 96 | Jake Dixon | Boscoscuro | 01:41.486 | ||
2 | 7 | Barry Baltus | Kalex | 01:41.559 | 0.073 | 0.073 |
3 | 44 | Aron Canet | Kalex | 01:41.706 | 0.220 | 0.147 |
4 | 18 | Manuel Gonzalez | Kalex | 01:41.732 | 0.246 | 0.026 |
5 | 53 | Deniz öncü | Kalex | 01:41.826 | 0.340 | 0.094 |
6 | 15 | Darryn Binder | Kalex | 01:41.837 | 0.351 | 0.011 |
7 | 13 | Celestino Vietti | Boscoscuro | 01:41.857 | 0.371 | 0.020 |
8 | 21 | Alonso Lopez | Boscoscuro | 01:41.868 | 0.382 | 0.011 |
9 | 12 | Filip Salac | Boscoscuro | 01:41.882 | 0.396 | 0.014 |
10 | 81 | Senna Agius | Kalex | 01:41.951 | 0.465 | 0.069 |
11 | 84 | Zonta Vd Goorbergh | Kalex | 01:41.956 | 0.470 | 0.005 |
12 | 24 | Marcos Ramirez | Kalex | 01:42.011 | 0.525 | 0.055 |
13 | 11 | Alex Escrig | Forward | 01:42.042 | 0.556 | 0.031 |
14 | 14 | Tony Arbolino | Boscoscuro | 01:42.064 | 0.578 | 0.022 |
15 | 75 | Albert Arenas | Kalex | 01:42.083 | 0.597 | 0.019 |
16 | 80 | David Alonso | Kalex | 01:42.260 | 0.774 | 0.177 |
17 | 16 | Joe Roberts | Kalex | 01:42.270 | 0.784 | 0.010 |
18 | 10 | Diogo Moreira | Kalex | 01:42.276 | 0.790 | 0.006 |
19 | 27 | Daniel Holgado | Kalex | 01:42.314 | 0.828 | 0.038 |
20 | 71 | Ayumu Sasaki | Kalex | 01:42.339 | 0.853 | 0.025 |
21 | 99 | Adrian Huertas | Kalex | 01:42.383 | 0.897 | 0.044 |
22 | 95 | Collin Veijer | Kalex | 01:42.566 | 1.080 | 0.183 |
23 | 64 | Mario Aji | Kalex | 01:42.648 | 1.162 | 0.082 |
24 | 28 | Izan Guevara | Boscoscuro | 01:42.855 | 1.369 | 0.207 |
25 | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Forward | 01:43.015 | 1.529 | 0.160 |
26 | 4 | Ivan Ortola | Boscoscuro | 01:43.172 | 1.686 | 0.157 |
27 | 92 | Yuki Kunii | Kalex | 01:43.333 | 1.847 | 0.161 |
28 | 66 | Oscar Gutierrez | Boscoscuro | 01:43.920 | 2.434 | 0.587 |