Jack Miller’s wet weather expertise proved to be the difference as the Australian topped the timesheets on the final day of testing this week at Jerez. The Caretta Technology-RTG rider has a history of eye-catching performances in the rain, including his career-best fourth at the Sachsenring, and did so again to outpace Alex Rins on Estrella Galicia’s KTM.
With the weather turning nasty again, Wednesday proved to be the only day of dry running with Maverick Vinales remaining the fastest rider of the week. The championship favourite didn’t turn a wheel today due to the conditions but second fastest rider Alex Rins felt comfortable enough to complete 23 laps, coming within 0.141s of Miller’s benchmark in the wet.
Although few, if any, conclusions can be drawn from such a day, KTM’s dominance was certainly nowhere near as obvious as it had been in the dry. Jakub Kornfeil KTM-powered Kalex was third but Romano Fenati put a second FTR-Honda in the top four on his Team Italia bike. The Mahindra of Miguel Oliveira followed in fifth with KTM riders Alex Marquez and Zulfahmi Khairuddin sandwiching seventh-placed John McPhee on the second Caretta FTR-Honda.
After losing an engine yesterday, Arthur Sissis was back out on track and able to take ninth with Belgian rookie Livio Loi ending an eventful week on a high with tenth place.
| Moto3 Jerez Test: Combined Classification – Thursday 21st February | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Rider | Nat | Team | Best Time | |
| 1 | 8. Jack Miller |  |
Caretta Technology-RTG | 1:58.354 | |
| 2 | 42. Alex Rins |  |
Estrella Galicia 0’0 | 1:58.495 | |
| 3 | 84. Jakub Kornfeil |  |
Redox RW Racing GP | 1:58.644 | |
| 4 | 5. Romano Fenati |  |
San Carlo Team Italia | 1:59.044 | Report |
| 5 | 44. Miguel Oliveira |  |
Mahindra Racing | 1:59.100 | |
| 6 | 12. Alex Marquez | |
Estrella Galicia 0’0 | 1:59.193 | |
| 7 | 17. John McPhee |  |
Caretta Technology-RTG | 1:59.282 | |
| 8 | 63. Zulfahmi Khairuddin |  |
Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1:59.389 | |
| 9 | 61. Arthur Sissis | |
Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1:59.464 | |
| 10 | 11. Livio Loi |  |
Marc VDS Racing Team | 1:59.469 | |
| 11 | 53. Jasper Iwema |  |
RW Racing GP | 1:59.470 | |
| 12 | 29. Hyuga Watanabe |  |
Team La Fonte Tascaracing | 1:59.504 | |
| 13 | 7. Efren Vazquez | |
Mahindra Racing | 1:59.689 | |
| 14 | 3. Matteo Ferrari | |
Ongetta-Centro Seta | 2:00.072 | |
| 15 | 66. Florian Alt |  |
Kiefer Racing | 2:00.610 | |
| 16 | 77. Lorenzo Baldassarri | |
Team Go & Fun Honda Gresini | 2:00.855 | |
| 17 | 65. Philipp Oettl | |
Paddock TT Motion Events | 2:00.861 | |
| 18 | 4. Francesco Bagnaia | |
San Carlo Team Italia | 2:01.709 | Report |
| 19 | 58. Juanfran Guevara | |
CIP | 2:04.888 | |
| 20 | 19. Alessandro Tonucci | |
Team La Fonte Tascaracing | 2:05.625 | |
| 21 | 9. Toni Finsterbusch | |
Kiefer Racing | No Time | |
| 22 | 10. Alexis Masbou |  |
Ongetta-Rivacold | No Time | |
| 23 | 22. Ana Carrasco | |
JHK t-shirt Laglisse | No Time | |
| 24 | 23. Niccolo Antonelli | |
Team Go & Fun Honda Gresini | No Time | |
| 25 | 25. Maverick Vinales | |
JHK t-shirt Laglisse | No Time | |
| 26 | 31. Niklas Ajo |  |
Avant Tecno | No Time | |
| 27 | 32. Isaac Vinales | |
Bimbo-Ongetta-Centro Seta | No Time | |
| 28 | 39. Luis Salom | |
Red Bull KTM Ajo | No Time | |
| 29 | 41. Brad Binder |  |
Ambrogio Racing | No Time | |
| 30 | 57. Eric Granado |  |
Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 | No Time | |
| 31 | 89. Alan Techer | |
CIP | No Time | |
| 32 | 94. Jonas Folger | |
Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 | No Time | |
| 33 | 99. Danny Webb | |
Ambrogio Racing | No Time | |
