Among those affected was Pol Espargaro, who switched back from Honda to the KTM umbrella and did his first laps on the new GasGas machine yesterday. The Spaniard was in the middle of the field in terms of lap times, even if he wasn’t allowed to describe his impressions, the shining eyes revealed a lot.
Jack Miller also rode the factory KTM for the first time yesterday. For a long time he stayed in the midfield, but at the end of the day he had to settle for a 17th lap time. His new teammate Brad Binder set the seventh fastest lap, becoming the only driver from a non-Italian brand to finish in the top eight. Ducati rider Luca Marini set the fastest time.
Newcomer Augusto Fernandez, the newly crowned Moto2 World Champion, only achieved the penultimate lap time on his MotoGP debut at GasGas. The Spaniard’s daily program was to get used to the device.
Source: Nachrichten
