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Espargaró confirms his potential in Sachsenring

Espargaró continues his hot streak in the sessions on Friday. The Catalan has made the best time in the two free sessions in Sachsenring disputed today, this time up imposing the champions Marc Márquez and Jorge Lorenzo, who seems to have recovered and have a good pace this weekend. Dani Pedrosa was ninth after a sharp fall.

Espargaró starts in pretty good shape this weekend. As usual this season, Aleix has dominated Friday practices, running as a great rival in the fight for pole tomorrow. In these FP2 the Catalan has set the fastest time in the final moments, just one-tenth better that the time recorded by Marc Marquez recovered from his little fall in FP1. Jorge Lorenzo finished third, showing himself as the main rival Marquez this weekend.
Stefan Bradl has done a great performance scoring the fourth best time, thus beating Alvaro Bautista, also very strong in these free practice, completing the Top 5. Behind the Spanish was Andrea Iannone, Pol Espargaró and Andrea Dovizioso from Ducati. Dani Pedrosa has only been ninth, consequence of a sharp fall at the beginning of the session that left him off from the rest of FP2. Yet he has remained ahead of Valentino Rossi, very discreet in this session because he has not passed the 10th place.
Outside the Top 10 is Bradley Smith, still smarting from a fall in the morning session, followed by Yonny Hernandez, Cal Crutchlow, Scott Redding and Michael Laverty.
The FP3 will take place tomorrow at 09:55 h (GMT).
Results:
Pos. Rider Team Motorbike Lap
1 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha 1:22.041
2 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1:22.158
3 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 1:22.368
4 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 1:22.430
5 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 1:22.440
6 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Pramac Racing Ducati 1:22.565
7 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 1:22.569
8 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 1:22.576
9 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1:22.589
10 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 1:22.619
11 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 1:22.719
12 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Energy T.I. Pramac Racing Ducati 1:22.724
13 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Ducati Team Ducati 1:22.757
14 70 Michael LAVERTY GBR Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 1:22.928
15 45 Scott REDDING GBR GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 1:22.933
16 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Drive M7 Aspar Honda 1:22.961
17 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Honda 1:23.049
18 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Drive M7 Aspar Honda 1:23.204
19 5 Colin EDWARDS USA NGM Forward Racing Forward Yamaha 1:23.327
20 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Racing Avintia 1:23.393
21 63 Mike DI MEGLIO FRA Avintia Racing Avintia 1:23.858
22 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Octo IodaRacing Team ART 1:23.912
23 23 Broc PARKES AUS Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 1:24.158