2014 Moto3 Jerez Test Day 2, Final: Team Ajo Strength Sees Miller Lead And Hanika Rise

Submitted by David Emmett on Wed, 2014-02-19 17:40

Aki Ajo's teams have a firm grip on the Moto3 class on the second day of testing at Jerez. Jack Miller ended the day on top of the timesheets, well inside the pole record set by Alex Rins in May last year. Miller's teammate Karel Hanika grabbed second spot, the Red Bull Rookie Cup champion of 2013 making an outstanding debut in the class. Rounding out the top three was Danny Kent on the factory Husqvarna, an operation which is also run by Aki Ajo.

Though Miller's time was out of reach of the rest, over a third of a second quicker than the chasing mob, the group that followed was close. Karel Hanika was strong all session, Danny Kent putting on a late charge to challenge Hanika at the end of the session, ending the day just a thousandth behind the Czech rider. Italian Romano Fenati of the Team Sky VR46 squad was another four thousandths behind Kent, and his teammate Pecco Bagnaia was another two hundredths behind Fenati.

Alex Marquez was the first Honda rider, the NSF250RW showing distinct signs of improvement. Marquez ended the day just six tenths behind Miller, with Efren Vazquez and the French prodigy Fabio Quartararo a couple of hundredths behind.

Testing concludes on Thursday.

Times:

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Prev.	In Session
1	8	Jack Miller	KTM	1:46.278			Session 1
2	98	Karel Hanika	KTM	1:46.645	0.367	0.367	Session 3
3	52	Danny Kent	Husqvarna	1:46.646	0.368	0.001	Session 3
4	5	Romano Fenati	KTM	1:46.650	0.372	0.004	Session 3
5	21	Francesco Bagnaia	KTM	1:46.674	0.396	0.024	Session 1
6	23	Niccolo Antonelli	KTM	1:46.806	0.528	0.132	Session 3
7	12	Alex Marquez	Honda	1:46.882	0.604	0.076	Session 3
8	32	Isaac Viñales	KTM	1:46.899	0.621	0.017	Session 3
9	7	Efren Vazquez	Honda	1:46.899	0.621	0.000	Session 2
10	31	Niklas Ajo	Husqvarna	1:46.943	0.665	0.044	Session 1
11	20	Fabio Quartararo	Honda	1:46.965	0.687	0.022	Session 1
12	84	Jakub Kornfeil	KTM	1:46.967	0.689	0.002	Session 2
13	58	Juanfran Guevara	Kalex-KTM	1:47.049	0.771	0.082	Session 3
14	44	Miguel Oliveira	Mahindra	1:47.169	0.891	0.120	Session 1
15	65	Philipp Oettl	Kalex-KTM	1:47.174	0.896	0.005	Session 3
16	11	Livio Loi	Kalex-KTM	1:47.760	1.482	0.586	Session 2
17	17	John Mcphee	Honda	1:47.801	1.523	0.041	Session 2
18	57	Eric Granado	KTM	1:47.802	1.524	0.001	Session 3
19	19	Alessandro Tonucci	Mahindra	1:47.913	1.635	0.111	Session 3
20	41	Brad Binder	Mahindra	1:47.970	1.692	0.057	Session 3
21	61	Arthur Sissis	Mahindra	1:47.977	1.699	0.007	Session 3
22	22	Ana Carrasco	Kalex-KTM	1:48.155	1.877	0.178	Session 2
23	63	Zulfahmi Khairuddin	Honda	1:48.430	2.152	0.275	Session 3
24	38	Hafiq Azmi	KTM	1:48.551	2.273	0.121	Session 2
25	9	Scott Deroue	Kalex-KTM	1:48.725	2.447	0.174	Session 2
26	3	Matteo Ferrari	Mahindra	1:48.831	2.553	0.106	Session 2
27	51	Bryan Schouten	Mahindra	1:48.983	2.705	0.152	Session 3
28	43	Luca Grunwald	Kalex-KTM	1:49.002	2.724	0.019	Session 3
29	33	Enea Bastianini	KTM	1:49.054	2.776	0.052	Session 2
30	4	Gabriel Ramos	Kalex-KTM	1:49.234	2.956	0.180	Session 1
31	10	Alexis Masbou	Honda	1:49.314	3.036	0.080	Session 2
32	95	Jules Danilo	Mahindra	1:49.686	3.408	0.372	Session 2
33	55	Andrea Locatelli	Mahindra	1:50.536	4.258	0.850	Session 1