BarcelonaHonda are complicated bikes and the most difficult to drive in the entire World Championship. Knowing how to carry them (and not having them carry you) is the biggest challenge for any driver coming to the Japanese team. Drivers like Jorge Lorenzo didn’t make it, and that was the fear that hovered over Pol Espargaró. Granollers, in its first season at Honda, was not achieving the expected results … Until this weekend at the Silverstone circuit. In this Sunday’s race (2 pm, DAZN), the Catalan will start from the most advanced position on the grid after being vindicated.
The punches in the air at the end of the qualifying session already showed that Pol Espargaró had just lost weight. The adaptation to the Honda is being complicated, and although the improvement is seen week after week, this better time has given a break and strength to the Granollers driver. After a fierce fight with Jorge Martín (Ducati) in the last laps to lower the clock even further, the Madrid rider made a mistake leaving the track and his time was not recorded, which relegated him. in fourth place on Sunday’s grid. Espargaró could hardly believe it when he left his motorbike in the closed park, behind number 1 (a privileged place for poleman).
The day has been sweet for Honda. With a Marc Márquez already recovered from the fright of Friday’s training session (when he fell at more than 270 km / h and rolled until he re-entered the track), the Japanese team has made the best classification of the season. Cervera will start from fifth position, just ahead of Aleix Espargaró, who has said that right now he is “one of the three best MotoGP riders”.
In the first Grand Prix with Maverick Viñales officially out of Yamaha, the cross was taken by his former teammate Fabio Quartararo. The World Cup leader did not have the best feelings in the qualifying round, conditioned by the sprain that occurred yesterday during free practice, which took him to the medical center. From the third box on the grid, the Frenchman will try to impose his driving with authority and take the victory to keep the distance in the World Cup overall. Before that, however, he will have to overcome the revelation of Ducati and Pol Espargaró, who does not want to miss the opportunity to claim himself as a winning bet for Honda.
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