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Video: Niccoló Antonelli sweeps for pole in Misano and Riccardo Rossi throws Pedro Acosta from the front row
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:34
The rain continues to prevent the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix of MotoGP is disputed normally. The track continued to be wet during Moto3 qualifying, although at the last minute a certain lane was already beginning to be seen that suggested that perhaps MotoGP qualifying will be disputed dry.
In humid conditions there has been no rival for Niccolò Antonelli, who has walked through Misano. The Italian had to pass Q1, but he did it with overwhelming forcefulness, and then he also set pole position with six tenths of advantage. A 1: 48.563 that puts him in the privileged position of the grid.
Foggia and Fenati will have to come back in the race
There has been more fighting behind Antonelli. As usual in these conditions, we have seen again that the drivers who came from Q1 have had a certain advantage. Not only because of Antonelli's pole position, but because Riccardo Rossi will start third and Jaume Masià has gotten sixth. Only John McPhee, twelfth, fails.
In fact Rossi, a true specialist in wet conditions, has removed Pedro Acosta from the front row with the clock already at zero, although later Izan Guevara also came to improve the Spaniard's time. The world championship leader will start from fifth position into the race in which he could be champion.
The good news for Acosta is that his rival for the title, Dennis Foggia, has suffered a lot of problems. He has not been comfortable on the water and, although he has improved his lap times, it only helped him to start from fourteenth position on the grid, almost two and a half seconds from pole.
To the Foggia debacle is added that of Romano Fenati, who has not even been able to overcome Q1 and will start nineteenth. The Italian was the great dominator of the weekend in Misano a month ago, although then he crashed in the race. The comebacks of Foggia and Fenati are going to put the spice on this Sunday day.
Who second is Filip Salac, another wet specialist who has taken advantage of the situation. In any case, it's great news that he's already so recovered from the Austin coup. The recently promoted MotoGP driver, Darryn Binder, has only qualified in sixteenth position.
Of the three new faces we have in Misano Much credit must be given to what Daniel Holgado, Deniz Öncü's replacement, has done at Tech3. In his first Grand Prix he qualified directly for Q2, although there he was unable to compete against more veteran drivers and came last. It will come out eighteenth.
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