QATAR
MOTOGP TEST REPORT
P80
Miller's 2014 best time.
With the rival marques taking
alternate places all the way to
eighth, EG Honda's Jorge Na-
varro was second overall, just six
hundredths adrift; and Ongetta
Rivacold Honda rider Niccolo
Antonelli a close fourth.
Then Binder's Red Bull KTM,
Enea Bastianini's Gresini Honda;
top rookie Joan Mir (Leopard
KTM) and Livio Loi (RW Honda);
before top Mahindra rider Jorge
Martin, ninth on the Aspar bike,
0.449 down.
Quartararo, also switched
from Honda to KTM, was 12th.
Moto2 and Moto3 have three
more testing days at Qatar, from
March 11 to 13, before the first
race. CN
low class rookie and Leopard
Racing teammate Miguel Oliveira
was 23rd.
Moto3 times did not challenge
the record books, but also threw
up at least one surprise.
Spanish CEV champion of
2015 Nicolo Bulega made a
blazing debut, topping the time
sheets on two out of three days
on his Sky VR46 KTM, and
ending up third overall. Bulega
is filling the role held last year by
under-aged Fabio Quartararo,
then double CEV champion.
His teammate Romano Fenati
emerged at the top overall on
a day-two time of 1:46.55, just
under Brad Binder's race re-
cord—last year's fastest lap, but
still three-tenths short of Jack
even more cheerful than usual
as he enjoyed the switch to
Kalex with the Gresini Team.
"I've got everything I need to win
the World Championship," he
glowed.
Zarco apart, the usual sus-
pects were up in the top group—
rising star Lorenzo Baldassari
(Forward) third, narrowly ahead
of title candidate Alex Rins (Pagi-
nas Amarillas), then Swiss veter-
ans Thomas Luthi and Dominque
Aegerter (both Interwetten).
Taka Nakagami, Jonas Folger,
Sandro Cortese and Marcel
Schrotter (also switched to
Kalex) completed the top 10.
Moto3 Champion Danny Kent
made a flying start, placing 12th,
within a second of the top. Fel-
This kid is quick. Bulega is another
one of Rossi's protégés.
