2016 Valencia Moto3 FP1 Result: Guevara Leads Chilly Morning

Submitted by Zara Daniela on Fri, 2016-11-11 08:53

Probably anxious to get his hands on the Aspar Ducati, Pecco Bagnaia was fastest out of the gates, although the adrenaline was only enough for eighth place in the end. Equally excited to see the back of 2016 and get a fresh start was Fabio Quartararo, the Frenchman soon taking over at the top, with the now customary lap cancellations included in the FP1 package. He eventually dropped back to fourth.

That was really just the opening act for Brad Binder, the world champion taking it easy at the start but making his way to the top with ten minutes to go. Although he didn’t really have it all his own way, the South African getting pushed back to third by an impressive Juanfran Guevara, the Spaniard followed by his teammate, Gabriel Rodrigo, the two RBA riders topping the session for the first time this season.

As the rookie battle heated up, Joan Mir left his mark at the top of the timesheets briefly, dropping back to fifth at the checkered flag, in front of teammate Andrea Locatelli, making it a pretty successful session for the Leopard team.

The fightback for third place in the championship did not start as Jorge Navarro would have wanted, the Spaniard suffering a highly impressive and highly unpleasant highside halfway through the session, before setting a significant time. The deceptively sunny but chilly conditions also caught out Andrea Migno soon after, with Enea Bastianini also gracing the turn ten gravel trap in the final minute of the session, ending in fifteenth position.

Results:

Pos.	Num.	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap 1st	Prev.
1	58	Juanfran GUEVARA	KTM	1'40.333
2	19	Gabriel RODRIGO	KTM	1'40.538	0.205	0.205
3	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'40.590	0.257	0.052
4	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	KTM	1'40.607	0.274	0.017
5	36	Joan MIR	KTM	1'40.613	0.280	0.006
6	55	Andrea LOCATELLI	KTM	1'40.689	0.356	0.076
7	11	Livio LOI	Honda	1'40.753	0.420	0.064
8	21	Francesco BAGNAIA	Mahindra	1'40.791	0.458	0.038
9	44	Aron CANET	Honda	1'40.854	0.521	0.063
10	23	Niccolò ANTONELLI	Honda	1'40.881	0.548	0.027
11	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	KTM	1'40.900	0.567	0.019
12	31	Raul FERNANDEZ	KTM	1'41.115	0.782	0.215
13	88	Jorge MARTIN	Mahindra	1'41.154	0.821	0.039
14	65	Philipp OETTL	KTM	1'41.166	0.833	0.012
15	33	Enea BASTIANINI	Honda	1'41.176	0.843	0.010
16	8	Nicolo BULEGA	KTM	1'41.194	0.861	0.018
17	48	Lorenzo DALLA PORTA	KTM	1'41.358	1.025	0.164
18	76	Hiroki ONO	Honda	1'41.446	1.113	0.088
19	16	Andrea MIGNO	KTM	1'41.465	1.132	0.019
20	4	Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO	Honda	1'41.500	1.167	0.035
21	7	Adam NORRODIN	Honda	1'41.580	1.247	0.080
22	42	Marcos RAMIREZ	Mahindra	1'41.612	1.279	0.032
23	84	Jakub KORNFEIL	Honda	1'41.785	1.452	0.173
24	95	Jules DANILO	Honda	1'41.888	1.555	0.103
25	24	Tatsuki SUZUKI	Mahindra	1'41.899	1.566	0.011
26	40	Darryn BINDER	Mahindra	1'41.994	1.661	0.095
27	98	Karel HANIKA	KTM	1'42.136	1.803	0.142
28	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Honda	1'42.252	1.919	0.116
29	63	Vicente PEREZ	Peugeot	1'42.350	2.017	0.098
30	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Honda	1'42.489	2.156	0.139
31	77	Lorenzo PETRARCA	Mahindra	1'42.502	2.169	0.013
32	12	Albert ARENAS	Peugeot	1'42.592	2.259	0.090
33	26	Daniel SAEZ	KTM	1'42.766	2.433	0.174
34	43	Stefano VALTULINI	Mahindra	1'43.159	2.826	0.393
35	99	Enzo BOULOM	Mahindra	1'44.997	4.664	1.838