Arón Canet didn’t do better than the Mandalika record from this morning but secured the pole position for the Moto2 Indonesian GP by dominating the qualifying session.

Manuel González (Correos Prepago Yamaha VR46 Master Camp/Kalex) led in the initial moments of the session, but without improving his time on his second attempt, he dropped three positions. Canet (Pons Wegow Los40/Kalex) took the lead.

Filip Salac (QJMotor Gresini/Kalex) was in second place, with Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Ajo/Kalex) in third. However, there was still a lot of time left in the session. Six minutes from the end, Tony Arbolino (Elf Marc VDS/Kalex) complicated his task by crashing when he was in eighth place.

In his penultimate lap, González came within just three thousandths of a second of the lead in second place. He couldn’t go any further, and Canet thus confirmed the pole position. Salac will start from third place, ahead of Acosta.

Q2 results:

Qualifying results:

O conteúdo Arón Canet celebrates pole position for the Moto2 Indonesian GP aparece primeiro em Motorcycle Sports.

The lap record in the Moto2 World Championship at Mandalika continues to fall. Arón Canet set the pace in the third practice session for the Indonesian GP this morning, improving the record that had been broken yesterday. All riders improved compared to Friday.

After most of the riders had completed at least one flying lap, Somkiat Chantra (Idemitsu Honda Team Asia/Kalex) was in the lead. However, he was then overtaken by Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Ajo/Kalex), who spent the most time at the front: for nearly 20 minutes, starting from the ten-minute mark.

It was Canet who beat the championship leader with a sequence of two fast laps in the final moments. The Pons Wegow Los40 rider ended with a lap time of 1m33.847s, setting a new record. Fermín Aldeguer (Beta Tools SpeedUp/Boscoscuro) came close, just 0.095s behind, with Acosta in third. Manuel González (Correos Prepago Yamaha VR46 Master Cap/Kalex) finished fourth, while Chantra completed the top five.

In 14th place, Dennis Foggia (Italtrans Racing Team/Kalex) secured the last direct spot in the second qualifying, leaving Alonso López (Beta Tools SpeedUp/Boscoscuro) in the Q1 by 0.007s. Among the other riders who will have to go through the first phase of qualifying is the championship’s third-placed rider, Jake Dixon (Inde GasGas Aspar/Kalex).

Timesheet:

O conteúdo Arón Canet leads the third Moto2 practice session in Mandalika with a new record aparece primeiro em Motorcycle Sports.

Zonta van den Goorbergh led the first qualifying for the Moto2 Indian GP, securing a spot in Q2. Sergio García, Barry Baltus, and Darryn Binder also made it to Q2 by finishing in the remaining positions among the top four.

The first leader was García (Pons Wegow Los40/Kalex), ahead of Binder (Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP/Kalex). Van den Goorbergh (Fieten Olie Racing GP/Kalex) and Taiga Hada (Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team/Kalex) were also in the qualification positions.

García remained at the top with his second lap, while Hada moved up to second. Van den Goorbergh stayed in third and Rory Skinner (OnlyFans American Racing/Kalex) became fourth.

Improvements in lap times were constant, as were changes in the timesheets. Van den Goorbergh took the lead with six minutes to go, displacing García. Baltus (Fieten Olie Racing GP/Kalex) climbed to third, and Hada dropped to fourth. Binder later returned to the qualification zone, pushing Baltus out.

Van den Goorbergh had a crash but was not beaten and finished in first place. García was second. Baltus made a late recovery to third on his final lap, leaving Binder in fourth. Hada missed out on Q2, finishing fifth just 0.016s behind the top four. Among those eliminated, the biggest surprise is Izan Guevara (Inde GasGas Aspar/Kalex), who will start from 26th place.

Results:

O conteúdo Zonta van den Goorbergh sets the pace in Q1 and advances to Moto2 Q2 in India aparece primeiro em Motorcycle Sports.