Roberts leads home hero Salač in rainy Moto2 Brno Practice

Moto3 may have been dry but the dark clouds rolled back into Brno and the rain came in buckets for Moto2. Leading the charge into Saturday and with the top 14 locked in for Q2, Joe Roberts (OnlyFans American Racing Team) hit the jackpot at the right time ahead of home-hero Filip Salač (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team). 

The session originally started out dry and the charge out of pitlane was right on queue with the green flag dropping. Everyone had to get out and set their representative bankers as soon as possible. Whilst it was dry for most of the track, the rain really came down hard in the final sector. Eventually, Salač went back out on track but with three minutes to go, the session was red flagged as the rain intensified.

Roberts, Salač and championship leader Manuel Gonzalez (LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP) were the three at the head of the field as the rain came down. It wasn’t just one side of the American Racing garage that was happy though, with Marcos Ramirez (OnlyFans American Racing Team) snatching fourth.

Behind the top four, British GP winner Senna Agius (LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP) was inside the top five but the big shock was in sixth. One of the last riders to improve was Mattia Pasini (Fantic Racing Redemption) and the 39-year-old veteran Italian, a wildcard for this weekend, finds himself sixth and in Q2. Aron Canet (Fantic Racing Lino Sonego), Jake Dixon (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team), Alonso Lopez (Sync SpeedRS Team) and his teammate Celestino Vietti complete the top ten.

Zonta Van Den Goorbergh (RW-Idrofoglia Racing GP), Jorge Navarro (KLINT Forward Factory Team) Izan Guevara (BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2) and Collin Veijer (Red Bull KTM Ajo) complete the top 14, Veijer directly into Q2 for the first time in Moto2™. Veijer just edged out teammate and Aragon GP winner Deniz Öncü, who goes into Q1 having finished 15^th.

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