Esteve Rabat continues to enhance his status as Moto2 championship favourite after topping the times on day one of the second pre-season test. The Spaniard, who led the field at Valencia last week, finished a quarter of a second clear of Thomas Luthi at Jerez today as the two proved a class apart from everyone else.
The day got off to a slow start with overnight rain leaving grip levels low but even in the trickier conditions of this morning, Rabat and Luthi dominated. By the end of proceedings though, Rabat had gone quicker than his own pole position from a year ago with both he and Luthi in the 1:42s bracket.
Mika Kallio was third fastest on the second Marc VDS Kalex with class rookies Sam Lowes and Maverick Vinales keeping up their impressive winter form to take fourth and fifth respectively. Takaaki Nakagami was sixth fastest ahead of Sandro Cortese and Julian Simon with Simone Corsi ninth as Forward Racing kicked off their 2014 programme, running a unique ‘Forward KLX’ chassis based on last year’s Kalex.
The 33 rider field taking part in this week’s test does not include Gino Rea with the Briton choosing to rest his left foot after breaking it at Valencia last week.
MOTO2 OFFICIAL TEST – JEREZ – TUESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY | ||||
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POS | RIDER | BIKE | TEAM | TIME |
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KALEX | MARC VDS RACING TEAM | 1:42.747 |
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SUTER | INTERWETTEN PADDOCK MOTO2 | 1:42.989 |
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KALEX | MARC VDS RACING TEAM | 1:43.320 |
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SPEED UP | SPEED UP | 1:43.449 |
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KALEX | PONS HP 40 | 1:43.544 |
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KALEX | IDEMITSU HONDA TEAM ASIA | 1:43.570 |
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KALEX | DYNAVOLT INTACT GP | 1:43.634 |
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KALEX | ITALTRANS RACING TEAM | 1:43.695 |
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FORWARD KLX | NGM FORWARD RACING | 1:43.748 |
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KALEX | PONS HP 40 | 1:43.793 |
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SUTER | TASCA RACING MOTO2 | 1:43.841 |
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SPEED UP | QMMF RACING TEAM | 1:44.178 |
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SUTER | FEDERAL OIL GRESINI MOTO2 | 1:44.226 |
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CATERHAM SUTER | CATERHAM MOTO RACING | 1:44.283 |
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SUTER | TECHNOMAG CARXPERT | 1:44.338 |
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FORWARD KLX | NGM FORWARD RACING | 1:43.348 |
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SUTER | MAPFRE ASPAR TEAM MOTO2 | 1:44.394 |
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KALEX | ARGINANO & GINES RACING | 1:44.412 |
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TECH 3 | TECH 3 RACING | 1:44.499 |
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KALEX | SAG TEAM | 1:44.518 |
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KALEX | PETRONAS RACELINE MALAYSIA | 1:44.553 |
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SUTER | IODARACING PROJECT | 1:44.596 |
23 | ![]() |
KALEX | ARGINANO & GINES RACING | 1:44.601 |
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KALEX | ITALTRANS RACING TEAM | 1:44.617 |
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SUTER | FEDERAL OIL GRESINI MOTO2 | 1:44.912 |
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CATERHAM SUTER | CATERHAM MOTO RACING | 1:44.951 |
27 | ![]() |
TECH 3 | TECH 3 RACING | 1:45.112 |
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SPEED UP | QMMF RACING TEAM | 1:45.209 |
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KALEX | IDEMITSU HONDA TEAM ASIA | 1:45.298 |
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SUTER | MAPFRE ASPAR TEAM MOTO2 | 1:45.743 |
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KALEX | APH PTT THE PIZZA SAG | 1:46.027 |
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MOTOBI | TELURU TEAM JIR WEBIKE | 1:46.378 |
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SUTER | TECHNOMAG CARXPERT | 1:46.770 |