After the pole position conquered by Dennis Foggia in Moto3 and by Aleix Espargaró in MotoGP, on the saddle of Aprilia, the Italian party on Saturday afternoon in Montmeló ended with the best time of Celestino Vietti in Moto2. The Piedmontese of the Mooney VR46 team has in fact won the start at the pole for tomorrow’s race by stopping the clock on1: 43.823ruining the home driver’s dreams of glory at the best Aron Canet. The latter, who remained firmly in command of the standings until the last minutes, in fact lost the opportunity to shoot from pole alone 8 thousandths second, thus contenting himself with starting from second place in front of the American Joe Roberts and the British Jake Dixon.
A qualifying session that opened with the participation of Vietti in Q1, who obviously obtained the ticket for access to the next Q2 thanks to the conquest of 2nd place, immediately behind Alfonso Lopez, being 44 thousandths slower than the Spanish. The Top-4 was also completed with Tony Arbolino and Jorge Navarro but, despite the good conditions, Q2 has turned into a real nightmare for the Milanese from Kalex, who never went beyond 18 ° and last place of the second qualifying session. At the same time, after an unconvincing start, Vietti expressed the best of his repertoire in the last moments of the session, managing for a very short time to get the better of Canet’s time, apparently unattainable until the final bars of the test. Thanks to this result, Vietti thus wins his second pole position of the season after the one obtained in the inaugural GP in Qatar, in a starting grid that sees Ai Ogura – who shares championship leadership with him – only in tenth position.
Moto2 / GP Catalonia 2022: Starting grid (the first 18 of Q2)
POS. | PILOT | MOTORCYCLE | TIME / GAP |
1 | Celestino Vietti | Kalex | 1: 43.823 |
2 | Aron Canet | Kalex | +0.008 |
3 | Joe Roberts | Kalex | +0.179 |
4 | Jake Dixon | Kalex | +0.222 |
5 | Albert Arenas | Kalex | +0.226 |
6 | Sam Lowes | Kalex | +0.367 |
7 | Bo Bendsneyder | Kalex | +0.584 |
8 | August Fernandez | Kalex | +0.607 |
9 | Marcel Schrotter | Kalex | +0.654 |
10 | To the Ogura | Kalex | +0.668 |
11 | Alonso Lopez | Darkwood | +0.756 |
12 | Pedro Acosta | Kalex | +0.868 |
13 | Filip Salac | Kalex | +0.879 |
14 | Manuel Gonzalez | Kalex | +0.889 |
15 | Lorenzo From the door | Kalex | +0.925 |
16 | Jorge Navarro | Kalex | +0.955 |
17 | Barry Baltus | Kalex | +1,010 |
18 | Tony Arbolino | Kalex | +1.055 |
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