2023-04-25 18:18:33
The Motorcycle World Championship returns to Europe this weekend. The Ángel Nieto Jerez Circuit will mark the beginning of a long stay of the ‘Continental Circus’ on our continent, a Spanish Grand Prix that this year will be marked by record temperatures: up to 35º C maximum are scheduled for Friday’s day on the Andalusian tracka heat that will decrease slightly throughout Saturday and Sunday, with temperatures that will be around 30º C.
MotoGP lands in our country with two Italians leading the general classification; despite not shining especially in Austin, Marco Bezzecchi was able to hold on to the lead of the premier class thanks to the 64 points with which he said goodbye to COTA, keeping his distance from Pecco Bagnaia (2nd 53p.) in the 11 points, benefited by the fall of the Ducati Lenovo Team rider in the Grand Prix of the Americas when he was leading the race ahead of Alex Rins.
Precisely Pecco is the last winner of the Spanish GPa victory that the Ducati man won by a minimum advantage of two tenths over another of the great specialists in southern Spain, Fabio Quartararowho arrives in Jerez ranked seventh overall with a gap of 30 points compared to the leaders.
The unexpected winner of the GP of Las Americas, Alex Rins, also has a lot to say this weekend; The Catalan has risen meteorically in the overall world championship thanks to the 34 points he scratched at COTA, and is already classified in third position, 17 points behind Bezzecchi. Rins plays at home, in Spain, and faces the race in Jerez with morale through the roof after dazzling in the US. If he can get his Honda tuned up, it could be one of the rivals to beat in the two races of the weekend.
Not far behind, fourth overall with 45 points, Maverick Vinales continues to hunt for his first victory with Aprilia; the errors of the driver Roses when actuating the clutch during the two outings in Austin doomed his chances of doing very well on a track where, by rhythm, Viñales was among the best, with speed to spare to get on the podium. If in Jerez he manages to solve his handicap as soon as the traffic light goes out, the Catalan will get into the fight from the first round.
Jerez will foreseeably see the return of two riders who could not compete in Argentina or Austin; are Enea Bastianini and Marc Marquez, both pending undergoing a final medical examination on Thursday morning to confirm that they have recovered from their respective injuries and that they can participate in this Spanish Grand Prix.
And what to say about one of the great attractions of this Spanish Grand Prix: the presence of Dani Pedrosa on the grid. The KTM tester will run his second MotoGP wildcard two years after first competing in the 2021 Styrian GP on the RC16, and having completed several recent private tests in southern Spain, the #26 may be one of The big revelations of the weekend.
Moto2 also has an Italian leader, Tony Arbolino; the Marc VDS Racing driver has not been off the podium since the start of the season, and with 61 points he is currently responsible for leading the general classification with a seven-point advantage over Pedro Acosta, winner of the Portimao and Austin races. At more distance, 20 points, Aron Canet (3rd 41p.) He will look for a good result on a track where he has never won in Moto2 (he did win in Moto3, in 2019).
And in the youngest category of Moto3, technical draw between Daniel Holgado and Diogo Moreira. The Spaniard and the Brazilian have 49 points each in their respective lockers, although it is Holgado who leads the general classification for having one more victory than Moreira, who has not yet been able to crown the Moto3 podium this year. With 17 less points, Xavier Artigas (3rd 32nd) wants to take advantage of his podium in Austin to maintain that momentum at his home race, just like a Jaume Masia (4th 31p.) who also uncorked the Prosseco at COTA and who arrives in great shape at Jerez.
As usual, all the action of the Spanish GP can be followed live through DAZN, Movistar (Motor Package) and the Videopass on the championship’s official website. The schedules on Sunday will be delayed by one hour so as not to coincide with the Azerbaijan race of the Formula 1 World Cup, so that Moto3 will start at 12:00, Moto2 will start at 1:15 p.m. and MotoGP will start on Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
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The schedules of the Spanish GP of MotoGP 2023 are the following:
Friday April 28
09:00 – 09:35 Moto3 FP1
09:50 – 10:30 Moto2 FP1
10:45 – 11:30 MotoGP FP1
13:15 – 13:50 Moto3 FP2
14:05 – 14:45 Moto2 FP2
15:00 – 16:00 MotoGP FP2
Saturday April 29
08:40 – 09:10 Moto3 FP3
09:25 – 09:55 Moto2 FP3
10:10 – 10:40 MotoGP FP
10:50 – 11:05 MotoGP Q1
11:15 – 11:30 MotoGP Q2
12:50 – 13:05 Moto3 Q1
13:15 – 13:30 Moto3 Q2
13:45 – 14:00 Moto2 Q1
14:10 – 14:25 Moto2 Q2
15:00 – MotoGP Sprint Race
Sunday April 30
10:45 – 10:55 MotoGP Warm Up
12:00 Moto3 Race
13:15 Moto2 Race
15:00 MotoGP Race
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