After reportedly being the the fastest rider during KTM’s private test at Almeria, Maverick Vinales arrived at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia for the first official Moto3 test of the 2013 season to top the time sheets in all three sessions that were held today.
Maverick Vinales is now riding a KTM for JHK T-shirt LaGlisse and he posted a best time of 1’40″715 – the only rider to break the 1,41 barrier – and he was also under Jonas Folger’s qualifying pole position lap in last season’s Valencia round.
Following Vinales was Luis Salom who suffered a small crash, Alex Rins and Zulfahmi Khairuddin, which put four official factory KTM’s in the top four spots with a fifth thanks to Aspar’s Jonas Folger, who is running a Kalex chassis.
Last year’s Italian revelation Romano Fenati was sixth riding a FTR Honda for San Carlo Team Italia, while Jakub Kornfeil took 7th ahead of Efren Vazquez, who is debuting the new Mahindra by Suter Racing.
Arthur Sissis and Alex Marquez who are also riding KTM’s were 9th and 10th respectively while Maverick Vinales’ cousin Issac was 11th.
Sixteen year- old Ana Carrasco – the first female in Moto3 – and Vinales team mate made an impressive day 1 debut as she finished 12th and ahead of several more experienced Moto3 GP riders.
Moto3 Valencia test day 1 results:01- Maverick Vinales – JHK T-Shirt LaGlisse 1’40.
715 02- Luis Salom – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team + 0.
156 03- Alex Rins – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 + 0.
589 04- Zulfahmi Khairuddin – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team + 1.
073 05- Jonas Folger – MAPFRE Aspar Team Moto3 + 1.
378 06- Romano Fenati – San Carlo Team Italia + 1.
717 07- Jakub Kornfeil – Redox RW Racing GP + 1.
745 08- Efren Vazquez – Mahindra Racing – Mahindra 1.
872 09- Arthur Sissis – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team + 1.
975 10- Alex Marquez – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 + 2.
252 11- Isaac Vinales – Bimbo Ongetta Centro Seta + 2.
260 12- Ana Carrasco – JHK T-Shirt LaGlisse +2.
322 13- Brad Binder – Ambrogio Racing + 2.
414 14- Jack Miller – Caretta Technology RTG + 2.
451 15- Danny Webb – Ambrogio Racing + 2.
463 16- Matteo Ferrari – Ongetta Centro Seta + 2.
464 17- Lorenzo Baldassarri – Go & Fun Gresini Moto3 + 2.
733 18- Juanfran Guevara – CIP Moto + 3.
032 19- Toni Finsterbusch – Kiefer Racing + 2.
848 20- Niklas Ajo – Avant Tecno + 2.
879 21- Alan Techer – CIP Moto + 3.
032 22- Jasper Iwema – RW Racing GP + 3.
185 23- Eric Granado – MAPFRE Aspar Team Moto3 + 3.
222 24- John McPhee – Caretta Technology RTG + 3.
311 25- Livio Loi – Marc VDS Racing Team + 3.
469 26- Philipp Ottl – Paddock TT Motion Events + 3.
469 27- Miguel Oliveira – Mahindra Racing + 3.
642 28- Florian Alt – Kiefer Racing + 3.
957 29- Francesco Bagnaia – San Carlo Team Italia + 4.
257 30- Alexis Masbou – Ongetta Rivacold + 4.
515 31- Hyuga Watanabe – Team La Fonte Tasca Racing + 6.
540 32- Alessandro Tonucci – Team La Fonte Tasca Racing + 26.
232Photo source Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo.
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