Qatar Moto2 Test Day 2 Results: Vierge Heads Very Close Field On Second Day

Submitted by David Emmett on Sat, 2021-03-20 18:05

The second day of the Moto2 test at Qatar saw six riders end the day with nothing between them at the top of the timesheets. Xavi Vierge took top spot on Saturday, the Petronas Sprinta Racing rider leading Aron Canet on the Inde Aspar Boscoscuro bike, while Jorge Navarro of the MB Conveyors Speed Up Team put another Boscoscuro (the chassis formerly known as Speed Up) into third, three hundredths behind Canet.

Remy Gardner was fourth fastest on the Red Bull KTM Ajo machine, six thousandths of a second behind Navarro, and six hundredths slower than Vierge. Jake Dixon put the second Petronas Sprinta bike into fifth, rounding out a good day for the Petronas team, while Sky VR46's Marco Bezzecchi finished sixth fastest, less than nine hundredths of a second off the time of Vierge and making it six riders in less than a tenth of a second.

Bo Bendsneyder, now on a Kalex with the Mandalika SAG team, headed up the second wave, just ahead of impressive rookie Raul Fernandez and 2020 title candidate Sam Lowes.

The test finishes on Sunday.

Results:

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Prev
1	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	1'58.832
2	44	Aron Canet	Boscoscuro	1'58.858	0.026	0.026
3	9	Jorge Navarro	Boscoscuro	1'58.888	0.056	0.030
4	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	1'58.894	0.062	0.006
5	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	1'58.900	0.068	0.006
6	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	1'58.921	0.089	0.021
7	64	Bo Bendsneyder	Kalex	1'59.185	0.353	0.264
8	25	Raul Fernandez	Kalex	1'59.204	0.372	0.019
9	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	1'59.211	0.379	0.007
10	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	1'59.245	0.413	0.034
11	14	Tony Arbolino	Kalex	1'59.360	0.528	0.115
12	37	Augusto Fernandez	Kalex	1'59.468	0.636	0.108
13	79	Ai Ogura	Kalex	1'59.568	0.736	0.100
14	62	Stefano Manzi	Kalex	1'59.569	0.737	0.001
15	12	Thomas Luthi	Kalex	1'59.644	0.812	0.075
16	40	Hector Garzo	Kalex	1'59.656	0.824	0.012
17	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Kalex	1'59.759	0.927	0.103
18	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	1'59.762	0.930	0.003
19	6	Cameron Beaubier	Kalex	1'59.833	1.001	0.071
20	75	Albert Arenas	Boscoscuro	1'59.854	1.022	0.021
21	42	Marcos Ramirez	Kalex	1'59.904	1.072	0.050
22	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	1'59.913	1.081	0.009
23	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex	1'59.978	1.146	0.065
24	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	MV Agusta	1'59.994	1.162	0.016
25	23	Marcel Schrotter	Kalex	2'00.035	1.203	0.041
26	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	2'00.083	1.251	0.048
27	5	Yari Montella	Boscoscuro	2'00.116	1.284	0.033
28	13	Celestino Vietti	Kalex	2'00.538	1.706	0.422
29	55	Hafizh Syahrin	NTS	2'00.941	2.109	0.403
30	70	Barry Baltus	NTS	2'02.811	3.979	1.870