
Veijer Beats Escrig to Jerez Pole; Gonzalez Third
Tony Arbolino topped wet final practice at Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto, posting the fastest time of the Moto2 Free Practice Two with a 1:53.516 on his Pirelli-shod REDS Fantic Racing Kalex. Collin Veijer then claimed pole in Saturday qualifying, stopping the clock at 1:39.101 on his Red Bull KTM Ajo Kalex and setting the front of the grid for the Moto2 race weekend.
Veijer edged Alex Escrig into second with a 1:39.158, and Manuel Gonzalez took third with a 1:39.196. Senna Agius qualified fourth and Alonso Lopez fifth, the two separated by one-thousandth of a second. Veijer ran on Pirelli control tires. Joe Roberts qualified 20th on his OnlyFans American Racing Team Kalex with a 1:40.119.
Final practice was run in damp, wet conditions and produced much slower lap times than Friday. Arbolino’s 1:53.516 set the pace in the session, Mario Aji was second on his Idemitsu Honda Team Asia Kalex with a 1:54.090 and Barry Baltus, Arbolino’s REDS Fantic Racing teammate, was third with a 1:54.149. Alonso Lopez was fourth, Senna Agius fifth, Alex Escrig sixth, Dani Munoz seventh, Dani Holgado eighth, Jorge Navarro ninth and Collin Veijer tenth. The session featured a 28-rider field. Earlier on Friday, Agius had set a new all-time Moto2 lap record at Jerez with a 1:38.973 on his Liqui Moly Dynavolt IntactGP Kalex, breaking Deniz Oncu’s 2025 benchmark of 1:39.564.
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