Aleix Espargaró and Bradley Smith will start from the sixth and seventh rows respectively in the GP of Emilia Romagna e Riviera di Rimini tomorrow, the second round of the championship on the Misano circuit.
Aleix missed going straight through to Q2 by just 189 thousandths which kept him from taking the last time that would have pre-qualified him for Q2 in the third practice session.
In the Q1 session, the Spaniard crashed just as he was doing his best lap. In fact, after beating his best times in the first two sectors, he was decidedly in the running for one of the top two spots. He finished with a time of 1’31.912 which places him sixteenth, without being able to complete a true time attack with the soft tyre.
Bradley Smith was the victim of a crash during FP4 without any physical consequences, but which forced the English rider to change bikes for qualifying. He stopped the clock at 1’32.486, which will put him on the seventh row of the starting grid tomorrow.
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