Submitted by Zara Daniela on
It was a glorious welcome to the Tuscan hills for the world championship and the lightweight class were the first to clear away the cobwebs. They did a reasonably good job too, with few off track excursions and plenty of the usual suspects crowding the top of the timesheets. To the delight of the locals, it was an Italian taking the first headline of the day, Jerez winner Niccolo Antonelli back into the limelight after an unfortunate weekend in France. Gabriel Rodrigo led the way for a while before getting demoted to second by a tenth of a second, ahead of Le Mans victor John McPhee.
With the top three seemingly one step ahead at this stage – that step worth about three tenths – Lorenzo Dalla Porta and Aron Canet were best of the rest, within half a second of the leader. Rookie Can Oncu is starting to make an impression on the timesheets with sixth place in FP1, ahead of veteran-by-comparison Albert Arenas. Alonso Lopez, Tony Arbolino and Tatsuki Suzuki completed the top ten, while Jaume Masia in 11th was the final rider within a second of the leader.
The likes of Jakub Kornfeil, Romano Fenati, Marcos Ramirez and Kaito Toba had more low key starts outside of the top ten but it was just FP1 on a dirty track after all.
Results:
| Pos. | Num. | Rider | Bike | Time | Gap 1st | Prev. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 | Niccolò ANTONELLI | Honda | 1'58.188 | ||
| 2 | 19 | Gabriel RODRIGO | Honda | 1'58.324 | 0.136 | 0.136 |
| 3 | 17 | John MCPHEE | Honda | 1'58.360 | 0.172 | 0.036 |
| 4 | 48 | Lorenzo DALLA PORTA | Honda | 1'58.608 | 0.420 | 0.248 |
| 5 | 44 | Aron CANET | KTM | 1'58.687 | 0.499 | 0.079 |
| 6 | 61 | Can ONCU | KTM | 1'58.860 | 0.672 | 0.173 |
| 7 | 75 | Albert ARENAS | KTM | 1'58.928 | 0.740 | 0.068 |
| 8 | 21 | Alonso LOPEZ | Honda | 1'58.987 | 0.799 | 0.059 |
| 9 | 14 | Tony ARBOLINO | Honda | 1'59.026 | 0.838 | 0.039 |
| 10 | 24 | Tatsuki SUZUKI | Honda | 1'59.067 | 0.879 | 0.041 |
| 11 | 5 | Jaume MASIA | KTM | 1'59.178 | 0.990 | 0.111 |
| 12 | 84 | Jakub KORNFEIL | KTM | 1'59.190 | 1.002 | 0.012 |
| 13 | 54 | Riccardo ROSSI | Honda | 1'59.224 | 1.036 | 0.034 |
| 14 | 11 | Sergio GARCIA | Honda | 1'59.233 | 1.045 | 0.009 |
| 15 | 55 | Romano FENATI | Honda | 1'59.246 | 1.058 | 0.013 |
| 16 | 42 | Marcos RAMIREZ | Honda | 1'59.264 | 1.076 | 0.018 |
| 17 | 6 | Ryusei YAMANAKA | Honda | 1'59.346 | 1.158 | 0.082 |
| 18 | 27 | Kaito TOBA | Honda | 1'59.356 | 1.168 | 0.010 |
| 19 | 7 | Dennis FOGGIA | KTM | 1'59.511 | 1.323 | 0.155 |
| 20 | 76 | Makar YURCHENKO | KTM | 1'59.548 | 1.360 | 0.037 |
| 21 | 71 | Ayumu SASAKI | Honda | 1'59.564 | 1.376 | 0.016 |
| 22 | 25 | Raul FERNANDEZ | KTM | 1'59.766 | 1.578 | 0.202 |
| 23 | 77 | Vicente PEREZ | KTM | 1'59.828 | 1.640 | 0.062 |
| 24 | 22 | Kazuki MASAKI | KTM | 1'59.837 | 1.649 | 0.009 |
| 25 | 12 | Filip SALAC | KTM | 1'59.859 | 1.671 | 0.022 |
| 26 | 13 | Celestino VIETTI | KTM | 1'59.929 | 1.741 | 0.070 |
| 27 | 3 | Kevin ZANNONI | TM | 1'59.934 | 1.746 | 0.005 |
| 28 | 31 | Gerry SALIM | Honda | 2'00.045 | 1.857 | 0.111 |
| 29 | 16 | Andrea MIGNO | KTM | 2'00.385 | 2.197 | 0.340 |
| 30 | 40 | Darryn BINDER | KTM | 2'00.399 | 2.211 | 0.014 |
| 31 | 69 | Tom BOOTH-AMOS | KTM | 2'04.080 | 5.892 | 3.681 |
