Completely different weather conditions met the Moto3 riders for this afternoon’s second free practice at Silverstone, while the session was declared wet at the start due to a few drops of rain, the practice was actually sunny and dry, but very windy however that didn’t stop standings leader Sandro Cortese from taking the top of the charts and then better himself again in his final flying lap and finally stop the clock in 2:19.
063 and shaving off another a tenth of a second.
JHK Laglisse Efren Vazquez who was third fastest in this morning’s wet session moved up a spot after swapping the top spot with Cortese to take second ahead of Team Italia FMI’s Romano Fenati in his second ever session on the British circuit.
The Italian was +0.
465s from Cortese after his crash earlier in the day.
Estrella Galicia 0,0’s Alex Rins was 4th with his Suter Honda, while Maverick Vinales took the fifth spot and Danny Kent who headed the charts in FP1 fell to sixth with Louis Rossi behind the Red Bull KTM Ajo rider.
Luis Salom was eighth and Alberto Moncayo and Alexis Masbou closed out the top ten.
Two riders crashed early on Ivan Moreno and John McPhee (in his second GP wildcard appearance) while Adrian Martin and Niklas Ajo had their best times cancelled after cutting the turn in the last sector.
Moto3 Silverstone FP2 results:01- Sandro Cortese – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – 2’19.
063 02- Efren Vazquez – JHK T-Shirt LaGlisse – FTR Honda M312 – + 0.
382 03- Romano Fenati – Team Italia FMI – FTR Honda M312 – + 0.
465 04- Alex Rins – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 0.
544 05- Maverick Vinales – Blusens Avintia – FTR Honda M312 – + 0.
547 06- Danny Kent – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – + 0.
668 07- Louis Rossi – Racing Team Germany – FTR Honda M312 – + 0.
761 08- Luis Salom – RW Racing GP – KALEX KTM – + 0.
800 09- Alberto Moncayo – BANKIA Aspar Team – KALEX KTM – + 0.
914 10- Alexis Masbou – Caretta Technology – Honda NSF250R – + 1.
435 11- Alan Techer – Technomag CIP TSR – TSR3 Honda – + 1.
668 12- Danny Webb – Mahindra Racing – Mahindra MGP-3O – + 1.
681 13- Jakub Kornfeil – Redox Ongetta Centro Seta – FTR Honda M312 – + 1.
745 14- Miguel Oliveira – Team Estrella Galicia 0,0 – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 1.
938 15- Hector Faubel – BANKIA Aspar Team – KALEX KTM – + 1.
983 16- Adrian Martin – JHK T-Shirt Laglisse – FTR Honda M312 – + 2.
000 17- Zulfahmi Khairuddin – AirAsia SIC Ajo – KTM M32 – + 2.
275 18- Jonas Folger – Iodaracing Project – Ioda TR002 – + 2.
334 19- Jasper Iwema – MOTO FGR – MOTO FGR 3 Honda – + 2.
535 20- Jack Miller – Caretta Technology – Honda NSF250R – + 2.
787 21- Niccolò Antonelli – San Carlo Gresini Moto3 – FTR Honda M312 – + 2.
850 22- Niklas Ajo – TT Motion Events Racing – KTM M32 – + 2.
863 23- John McPhee – KRP Racing Steps Foundation – KRP Honda M3-01 – + 3.
136 24- Simone Grotzkyj Giorgi – Ambrogio NEXT Racing – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 3.
153 25- Brad Binder – RW Racing GP – KALEX KTM – + 3.
310 26- Arthur Sissis – Red Bull KTM Ajo Factory Team – KTM M32 – + 3.
465 27- Alessandro Tonucci – Team Italia FMI – FTR Honda M312 – + 3.
492 28- Ivan Moreno – Andalucia JHK LaGlisse – FTR Honda M312 – + 3.
963 29- Isaac Vinales – Ongetta Centro Seta – FTR Honda M312 – + 3.
989 30- Kenta Fujii – Technomag CIP TSR – TSR3 Honda – + 4.
278 31- Toni Finsterbusch – Cresto Guide MZ Racing – Honda NSF250R – + 4.
357 32- Fraser Rogers – KRP Racing Steps Foundation – KRP M3-01 Honda – + 4.
362 33- Giulian Pedone – Ambrogio NEXT Racing – Suter Honda MMX3 – + 5.
050 34- Marcel Schrotter – Mahindra Racing – Mahindra MGP-3O – + 6.
362 35- Luigi Morciano – Ioda Team Italia – Ioda TR002 – + 6.
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