Moto2: Jake Dixon guarantees the pole in Austin

Moto2: Jake Dixon guarantees the pole in Austin


Vice leader of the championship and coming from Vitória in Argentina, Dixon confirms the good start of the season




Veteran in the category and winner of the Argentine GP, Jake Dixon was the big name on Saturday. The British, who won his first race of the season two weeks ago, entered the dispute on the title and is currently 11 disadvantage points compared to the leadership.

After the leader of the championship, Manuel González, for not having qualified directly to the second quarter in the classification training on Friday, we had an innovative second quarter, with big names in the access class that had to pass it, including the Brazilian DioGo Moreira.

González dominated Q1, being the fastest with a time of 2min07s355, putting 0.863 in second place, which was David Alonso, winning his first Q2 in his first season on Moto2. Filipe Salac and Deniz Öncu have had the last vacant places.



Manuel González, league leader

The Brazilian Diogo Moreira was only in the seventh position of the first quarter, 1S098 of the best time, and will leave only the 21st position in the race of this Sunday (30/03). The 20 -year -old young promise sold, in an interview with Espn Broadcast, recorded before the classification, on not obtaining the expected performance and the difficulties of treating the different track conditions between Friday and Saturday.



Diogo Moreira has a bad Saturday in the fee

Already in Q2, many changes occurred in the controversy for the pole, but which consolidated first was Jake Dixon, with the time of 2min04s432, followed by Manuel González, who, also from Q1, guaranteed in the front row, 0.250 by his direct opponent. Barry Baltus still fell at the end of the session, but managed to guarantee third place to close the front row.

The great surprise of the Moto2 classification was due to David Alonso, who, in addition to going to the second quarter for the first time, won an excellent sixth position and closed the second row, which will also present Zonta Vd Gorbergh and Aron Caet, fourth and fifth, respectively.



David Alonso has its best evaluation on Moto2

The top 10 was completed by Tony Arbolino, Marcos Ramírez, Filipe Salac and Deniz Öncu, the last two originally from Q1.

The Moto2 race takes place this Sunday, at 2:15 pm, in Brasilia Time, with the transmission of Espn 4/Disney+.

Source: Terra

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