Miguel Oliveira managed today the 11th best time in qualifying session 2, for which he was qualified early in the morning, right in FP3, when he set the seventh best mark of the session. He showed his surprising race pace in FP4, training that he led categorically from start to finish and, in the qualification session, managed to qualify to leave the fourth row, for what will be the 15th race of the season, which this end of week takes place in Aragon, Spain.
At the beginning of the morning, in what was the third free practice session of the weekend, very windy, Miguel Oliveira managed to improve his mark from the previous day, setting his best time in seventh position, at 1m47s224, just +0.232 that the best time of this session. The rider from Almada managed to run 18 laps, the 16th being his best ‘chrono’, when he already had medium-soft tires, front and rear, respectively – something that the previous day he had expressed wanting to continue experimenting with.
In FP4, the portuguese rider led the session absolutely, registering the best pace on the track and predicting an equally surprising race pace to take place tomorrow at MotorLand. 1m47s430 was the best mark recorded in this free practice session, where he ran 14 laps, a mark by Falcão from Charneca de Caparica, the fastest rider of this FP4.
Qualified directly for Q2, as he was part of the top-10 of the best combined times of the weekend, Oliveira bet on hard and soft tires (front and rear), a choice that allowed him to manage his passages through the finish line with the 11th best record, in 1m47s183. He will thus leave the fourth row of the starting grid, for this Sunday's race, with a time scheduled for 1p.m – mainland Portugal time.
