On his sixth flying lap of FP2, Ogura bettered Jake Dixon’s (Zinia GASGAS Aspar Team) FP1 time by 0.059s as Chantra and Alonso Lopez (CAG Speed Up) improved their Friday morning efforts inside the top five as the sun shone at the Red Bull Ring. Chantra, with nine minutes to go, then climbed up to P1 to make it a Honda Team Asia 1-2. And on his next flying lap, the Thai star went 0.588s quicker than Ogura as plenty of improvements were being made across the board. Fernandez cut that advantage down to 0.323s before Ogura was just 0.055s off his teammate’s effort with four minutes left, with fourth place Dixon yet to improve on his 1:35.000 in FP1. But in the end, no one would be able to beat Chantra’s time. Tony Arbolino (Elf Marc VDS Racing Team) grabbed P4 in the closing stages to sit behind the leading trio, both the Italian and fifth place Lopez demoted Dixon down to P6. Cameron Beaubier (American Racing) is seventh ahead of FP3 and is joined in the top 10 by Fermin Aldeguer (CAG Speed Up), Filip Salač (Gresini Racing Moto2™) and Jorge Navarro (Flexbox HP40).
Bo Bendsneyder, who was 15th in FP, was the complete session in the top 14, which will put him directly in to Q2. This is important, there is a chance of rain tomorrow during FP3. If so, times will not be as fast as the second free practice, which was completely dry.
Results FP2:
Source: motogp.com, stopandgo.es