The final round of the 2021 Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing Championship season, which is being held on the Valencia circuit, kicked off in the rain that characterised the first day of practice. For all the riders, it was an entirely interim session, postponing the hunt for the best times to the second session.
It did not rain for FP2 in the afternoon but temperatures were cool and the asphalt, still damp here and there, never got any warmer than 13°C. These are historically hostile conditions for the RS-GP which kept the riders from expressing their full potential. Both Aleix (twelfth but just 89 one hundredths behind the leader) and Maverick (eighteenth with a time of 1’32.214) finished the day outside the top ten.
This means that weather conditions will play a key role tomorrow and the predictions say that they’ll be better.
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