Pons HP 40’s Luis Salom2014 Le Mans Moto2 Friday Practice ResultsLuis Salom was the quickest rider Friday during the opening day of Moto2 practice at Le Mans. The HP 40 pilot finished ahead of the current Moto2 points leader, Tito Rabat, and Maverick Vinales, respectively.
Salom was already leading in the final stages but improved to 1:38.254 to end Friday ahead of his fellow intermediate class riders.Rabat (Marc VDS Racing Team) also pushed hard late in the practice but was ultimately 0.06s off the pace of his young compatriot, with Viñales (Pons HP 40) in third by a 0.1 of a second margin.Dominique Aegerter (Technomag carXpert) was fractionally (0.004s) slower than Moto3 World Champion Viñales in fourth, with Jonas Folger (AGR Team) making it three rookies in the top five.Completing the top ten were Simone Corsi (NGM Forward Racing), Mika Kallio (Marc VDS Racing Team), Franco Morbidelli (Italtrans Racing Team), Julian Simon (Italtrans Racing Team) and Alex De Angelis (Tasca Racing Moto2).A big crash for Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Paddock Moto2) early in FP2 at turn 3 saw a high speed lowside take him into the gravel, before Tetsuta Nagashima (Teluru Team JiR Webike) quickly rejoined having dropped his bike on track and then restarting at trackside.Towards the end of the practice Sandro Cortese (Dynavolt Intact GP) crashed to end his session prematurely, but he, Luthi and Nagashima were all unharmed.
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