Blaž Štremfelj
After winter testing was scheduled to begin last month in Malaysia but was canceled, caravan racers MotoGP gathered on the track these days losail, where the first two races of this season will take place later this month.
It’s the first test day of regular racers marked by the wind, who harassed racers on the track, and also applied to the asphalt surface desert sand, which is why we didn’t see right in the first hours a lot going on.
He was among the first on the track Espargaro Pol, eagerly waiting to test the Honda engine for the first time, and set the first fast lap Miguel Oliveira, which after last year's debut on a motorcycle Tech3 moved to the factory team this year KTM. The Portuguese was the fastest after the first two hours of the test day, and an hour later the initiative was taken by the German Stefan bradl with Honda, which on Friday in Doha already passed shakedown testing.
Three hours before the end, he set the fastest time Johann zarco, a racer of the Pramac team, and an hour and a half later he reached the top Asparagus z April, who was the first racer to run the lap in less than a minute and 55 seconds, and immediately improved the lap time by 1: 54.687 by two tenths.
No one beat his time to the end, Bradl however, with a lag of 0.256 seconds, he was the second fastest. The third time of day was set by the current world champion Joan mir with Suzuki, and they finished the day in the top five Jack Miller in Miguel Oliveira.
The first test day as a racer LCR Honda he started with an ugly fall for Alex Marquez, who, however, carried her away only with blows and abrasions, so he could continue working.
