Nico Terol on pole and straight to the race in the 125cc at Indianapolis

The 125cc qualifying session has just finished and I have the feeling that if we let Nico have 10 more laps, he would keep lowering his time on every single one of them. In the end he has been only 75 thousandths away from the pole record set by Marc Márquez last year, and this despite the grip problems they have been experiencing this season.

You can tell the track is getting better and, thanks to this, Nico has managed to drop to 1:48.199, his sixth pole of the season, and he comes ready to give everything to pick up points again in the championship.

Behind the pole sitter of the day came Sandro Cortese and Johann Zarco. The former stopped the clock at 1:48.919 (0.720) and the latter set 1:48.939 (0.740).

It seems that Nico has a lot of pace and it will be very difficult for anyone to catch him under the same conditions. He set the best time after making his second pit stop, where, as Aspar explained, they fitted new tyres and carbon wheels.

You can choose between two types of wheels: magnesium and carbon. Magnesium is in itself a very, very light material, but carbon is a little lighter still. Carbon also helps with changes of direction and provides greater traction, but also more chattering.

You have to be very careful with the finish line kerb, as several riders have already tried to hold on to the sheet-metal kerb, going too far onto it and crashing as a result. Perhaps it was not the best option to put there.

Of our Maverick riders, Maverick was fourth, Faubel sixth, Efrén seventh, Gadea ninth, Adrián Martín fourteenth and Joan Perelló twenty-sixth. We really missed Alberto Moncayo, who I am sure would have been well up the order as he was looking very good. We wish him a speedy recovery; he will not need an operation for his collarbone injury. He wants to return at Misano, but that may be too soon.

Great time too for Danny Kent, who managed to qualify fifth on the RSA of his teammate Floger, while Floger, on Kent’s RSV, took eighth-best time.

Tomorrow we will have to pay very close attention to race strategy; tyres will be the key, as it is not known exactly how long they will last over many laps. Terol will try to keep his pace for as long as possible, and that will mean a gap.

We will also have to pay special attention to slipstreaming, as the finish line is very far away and any slipstream can win a race, more so here than anywhere else.

Brad Binder, substitute for Luis Salom (whom we look forward to seeing again very soon), is doing nothing wrong, even though there is a big difference between the pace of the Rookies Cup and the 125cc.