Filip Salač set the fifth time in the Moto3 test drives before the restart of the World Road Motorcycle Championship in Jerez. The pilots returned to the competition track for the first time after a break of more than four months, due to the pandemic, the Qatar Grand Prix took place only in March, where they rode only in the Moto3 and Moto2 classes.
Filip Salač on the archive picture.
Vlastimil Vacek, Right
On the Spanish track, where the Spanish Grand Prix championship will continue over the weekend after more than four months, Salač lagged behind the fastest man of the day, the British John McPhe, in a combination of times from two sections by 560 thousandths. The Czech pilot was surpassed by the Spaniards Raúl Fernández and Jaume Masiá and the Japanese Tacuki Suzuki.
On Friday, the competition program will start in Jerez with free practice, on Saturday there will be qualifications and on Sunday the races. Salač, who signed a new contract with the Italian stable VNE Snipers just before the restart of the season, entered the championship in eighth place in Qatar during the triumph of the Spaniard Albert Arenas.
In the royal cubature of MotoGP, the fastest Maverick Viñales from Spain was in Jerez before another yamaze rider, the Frenchman Fabio Quartarar. Marc Márquez, the world champion on the hunt, finished behind them.
Jakub Kornfeil was not enough for any of the 17 rivals during his debut on an electric machine in the MotoE class. In all three parts of the tests, he closed the results list and was more than five seconds behind the leader. The long-term Moto3 rider returns to racing half a year after the end of his career. In the electric motorcycle championship, he recently replaced Brit Bradley Smith in the WithU Motorsport team, who moved to MotoGP.
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