Simeon surprises and takes Moto2 pole in Germany, with Torres 2nd and Espargaró 3rd

The Moto2 World Championship has contested the battle for pole position at the Sachsenring Circuit, with rider Xavier Simeon as the fastest, achieving the best time in this official practice session for the intermediate class, with a lap time of 1:24.665.

The session started with a very strong Pol Espargaró, who remained one of the front-runners of the class, without his main rival Scott Redding close by. The Briton does not seem very comfortable at the German track. The one who is well prepared for the Sachsenring is our Jordi Torres, who, with about 20 minutes to go, moved into first position with a superb time.

A calm session, without many incidents apart from Steven Odendaal’s crash, and with some riders physically affected, as is the case of Tito Rabat, who is suffering from his FP3 accident. In this situation, Torres continued to dominate the battle for pole position. Finally the last 10 minutes arrived, and the final attack began for all the riders. Many riders went out on red in these minutes, but it seemed that everything was between two men, Espargaró and Torres, as Redding made a move at the front but could not hold the position.

But at the last moment, when no one expected it, Xavier Simeon came from behind and set a stunning lap time of 1:24.665, becoming the pole-sitter of the intermediate class and earning his first pole position of his racing career, leaving behind our great Jordi Torres, who dominated much of the session, just 0.013s away. The 81 has missed out on his first World Championship pole by that small margin, a shame for sure, but as always he will fight in the race and will start from the front row of the grid.

Completing this front row of the grid is Pol Espargaró, who also finished just 0.039s from first, so imagine how tight the front of Moto2 is. Completing the top 10 we had Luthi 4th, Corsi 5th, Simón 6th, Nakagami 7th, Redding 8th, Kallio 9th and 10th De Angelis. The rest of ours placed Terol 12th, Cardús 15th, Rabat 23rd, Pons 24th, Elías 28th, Smith 29th, Ramos 31st, Mariñelarena 32nd.

More tomorrow.

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