Maverick Vinales led the Moto3 field for the second day running as the opening test of 2013 continued at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia. It was another day dominated by the KTMs although fourth placed Romano Fenati was among the big movers on day two, bringing the leading FTR-Honda to within a second of Vinales at the top.
After setting the pace on Tuesday, Vinales wasted no time lowering his own benchmark time this morning, improving to a 1:40.227 to lead Fenati by six tenths in the first session. Fenati wouldn’t go quicker in the remainder of the day and was subsequently overtaken by Alex Rins and Luis Salom who matched each other in the 1:40.4s bracket.
The Spaniards’ teammates completed a KTM-heavy top six with Zulfahmi Khairuddin and Alex Marquez next up while Jonas Folger kept up his good form with seventh. The German was riding on board the 2013-spec Kalex KTM for the first time and was impressed by its first outing. Jakub Kornfeil was eighth quickest ahead of Brad Binder with Mahindra maintaining their promising start courtesy of tenth placed Miguel Oliveira.
Danny Webb finished his second day with Ambrogio Racing in sixteenth spot despite crashing on Wednesday while Matteo Ferrari led the rookie pack in eighteenth, one place ahead of John McPhee on Caretta Technology-RTG’s FTR.
| Moto3 Valencia Test: Combined Classification – Wednesday 13th February | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Rider | Nat | Team | Best Time |
| 1 | 25. Maverick Vinales | 
|
JHK t-shirt Laglisse | 1:40.168 |
| 2 | 42. Alex Rins | |
Estrella Galicia 0’0 | 1:40.408 |
| 3 | 39. Luis Salom | |
Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1:40.435 |
| 4 | 5. Romano Fenati |  |
San Carlo Team Italia | 1:40.911 |
| 5 | 63. Zulfahmi Khairuddin |  |
Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1:40.961 |
| 6 | 12. Alex Marquez | |
Estrella Galicia 0’0 | 1:41.295 |
| 7 | 94. Jonas Folger |  |
Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 | 1:41.590 |
| 8 | 84. Jakub Kornfeil |  |
Redox RW Racing GP | 1:41.667 |
| 9 | 41. Brad Binder |  |
Ambrogio Racing | 1:41.785 |
| 10 | 44. Miguel Oliveira |  |
Mahindra Racing | 1:41.902 |
| 11 | 8. Jack Miller |  |
Caretta Technology-RTG | 1:42.109 |
| 12 | 32. Isaac Vinales | |
Bimbo-Ongetta-Centro Seta | 1:42.134 |
| 13 | 53. Jasper Iwema |  |
RW Racing GP | 1:42.182 |
| 14 | 7. Efren Vazquez | |
Mahindra Racing | 1:42.201 |
| 15 | 61. Arthur Sissis | |
Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1:42.298 |
| 16 | 99. Danny Webb |  |
Ambrogio Racing | 1:42.328 |
| 17 | 58. Juan Francisco Guevara | |
CIP | 1:42.346 |
| 18 | 3. Matteo Ferrari | |
Ongetta-Centro Seta | 1:42.443 |
| 19 | 17. John McPhee | |
Caretta Technology-RTG | 1:42.446 |
| 20 | 11. Livio Loi |  |
Marc VDS Racing Team | 1:42.475 |
| 21 | 65. Philipp Oettl | |
Paddock TT Motion Events | 1:42.574 |
| 22 | 4. Francesco Bagnaia | |
San Carlo Team Italia | 1:42.577 |
| 23 | 31. Niklas Ajo |  |
Avant Tecno | 1:42.624 |
| 24 | 22. Ana Carrasco | |
JHK t-shirt Laglisse | 1:42.655 |
| 25 | 57. Eric Granado |  |
Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3 | 1:42.672 |
| 26 | 89. Alan Techer |  |
CIP | 1:43.069 |
| 27 | 9. Toni Finsterbusch | |
Kiefer Racing | 1:43.082 |
| 28 | 77. Lorenzo Baldassarri | |
Team Go & Fun Honda Gresini | 1:43.256 |
| 29 | 19. Alessandro Tonucci | |
Team La Fonte Tascaracing | 1:44.081 |
| 30 | 23. Niccolo Antonelli | |
Team Go & Fun Honda Gresini | 1:44.398 |
| 31 | 29. Hyuga Watanabe |  |
Team La Fonte Tascaracing | 1:44.464 |
| 32 | 10. Alexis Masbou | |
Ongetta-Rivacold | 1:44.647 |
