Rider Nation Team Motorcycle Time Lap Total Gap Top Speed 1 25 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Blusens Avintia FTR HONDA 1’55.865 17 18 201.6 2 7 Efren VAZQUEZ SPA JHK T-Shirt Laglisse FTR HONDA 1’56.847 16 16 0.982 0.982 3 44 Miguel OLIVEIRA POR Estrella Galicia 0,0 SUTER HONDA 1’57.114 8 9 1.249 0.267 197.9 4 [...]
The Red Bull KTM Ajo Team made a strong effort at the qualifying in Portugal. Sandro Cortese took his second pole position in three races while Briton Danny Kent took his best qualifying position so far with fourth place, starting tomorrow’s Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril from the head of the second row. Cortese qualified [...]
Mahindra rider Danny Webb proved the steady progress of the all-new all-independent Mahindra MGP-30 Moto3 bike at Estoril today, claiming his best qualifying position so far, putting him within sight of a points-scoring finish in tomorrow’s race. 21-year-old Danny Webb put the white-and-red machine 18th on the 34-strong grid, in spite of a niggling gear-shifting [...]
The Marc VDS Racing Team’s Scott Redding will start tomorrow’s Portuguese Moto2 Grand Prix from the front row of the grid, after qualifying third fastest at Estoril this afternoon. Mika Kallio will start the race from the sixth row of the grid, after struggling with set-up issues in today’s two sessions. Redding was on a [...]
Casey Stoner continued Repsol Honda’s dominance at Estoril this weekend as the reigning MotoGP™ champion snatched pole position from teammate Dani Pedrosa by just 0.013 seconds in a tightly contested qualifying session that saw the top eleven riders split by just one second. Monster Tech3 Yamaha’s Cal Crutchlow continued his excellent form with the British [...]
Tech 3 Racing’s Bradley Smith has vowed to launch one of his trademark aggressive performances in tomorrow’s Estoril Moto2 race after qualifying in 13th position. Smith powered his Tech 3 Mistral 610 machine to a best time of 1.41.733 in today’s qualifying session, which left him just over 0.2s away from the top six. Working [...]
Gino Rea suffered another disappointing qualifying session today, but the British rider is remaining upbeat after making improvements with the rear setting of his Moriwaki MD600. Unfortunately a mechanical problem prevented him from making the most of his progress this afternoon but Rea is hopeful he can make up positions in tomorrow’s Grand Prix of [...]
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team rider Cal Crutchlow stormed to his second front row start in the opening three rounds of the 2012 MotoGP World Championship with another scintillating qualifying performance in Estoril today. Only reigning World Champion Casey Stoner and 2011 Estoril winner Dani Pedrosa were quicker than the British rider, who maintained his [...]
Rider Nation Team Motorcycle Time Lap Total Gap Top Speed 1 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol SUTER 1’40.934 20 20 2 12 Thomas LUTHI SWI Interwetten-Paddock SUTER 1’41.054 19 21 0.120 0.120 3 45 Scott REDDING GBR Marc VDS Racing Team KALEX 1’41.278 21 21 0.344 0.224 4 5 Johann ZARCO FRA JIR [...]