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Moto3, QP: hat trick for Bastianini at Aragón

Third pole position of the season for Enea, who beats out Navarro and Loi. Dalla Porta, Di Giannantonio and Migno are the other Italians in the top 15

QP: hat trick for Bastianini at Aragón

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The little red helmets that indicate the Moto3 pole position went mad, especially in the final 4 minutes when at least 10 riders took a turn at the top of the rankings before the chequered flag came out.

With a perfect and intelligent lap, Enea Bastianini rode his team Gresini Honda to first place with a time of 1’58”293 achieved in 11 laps taken at the top speed of 230 km/h. An intelligent lap because Enea skilfully and quickly got out of traffic on the track, avoiding any trouble and the “slipstream seekers” that are always present during qualifiers.

For Bastianini this is the third pole position of 2016 and it confirms the good trend of the team Gresini rider, who will have his sights set on the win tomorrow. After Enea, Jorge Navarro earned the second spot on the grid with his team Estrella Galicia Honda at a gap of 213 thousandths behind Bastianini. Closing out the front row is Belgian rider, Livio Loi’s Honda with a time of 1’58”521.

On the second row, Argentinian Gabriel Rodrigo rode his KTM to the fourth spot on the grid, followed by Aron Canet and Philipp Oettl, within just a few hundredths of a second.

Seventh best time went to Brad Binder with more than half a second behind the South African on pole, and behind the championship leader were Frenchman Fabio Quartararo and Hiroki Ono.

Italian riders Lorenzo Dalla Porta and Fabio Di Giannantonio finished respectively in twelfth and thirteenth place, with the Roman team Gresini rider falling victim to a harmless crash. Their gap behind the leader is more than 7 seconds.

The other Italians on the sheets were Andrea Migno, fourteenth, Andrea Locatelli, sixteenth, Nicolò Bulega and Niccolò Antonelli, respectively eighteenth and nineteenth. Francesco Bagnaia finished twenty-first on his Mahindra.

 

 

 

Translated by Jonathan Blosser
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