Jaume Masiá once again led the second practice session at the Moto3 Thai GP. The championship leader didn’t improve his time in Buriram, ending up with a nearly identical lap time as the morning.
After leading the opening session, Masiá (Leopard Racing/Honda) entered the second practice as the fastest, ahead of David Muñoz (BOE Motorsports/KTM). Positions swapped with the second flying laps, while Ayumu Sasaki (Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP) moved up to third.
The top positions stabilized, despite improvements in lap times, until just over 20 minutes from the checkered flag when José Antonio Rueda (Red Bull KTM Ajo) overtook Masiá to claim second place. However, the lap times were still not better than those in the morning session.
With about 14 minutes to go, Joel Kelso (CFMoto Racing PrüstelGP) dethroned Muñoz from the lead. The Spanish rider was overtaken a few minutes later by Collin Veijer (Liqui Moly Husqvarna Intact GP), who thus became Kelso’s main pursuer, and he immediatly overtook Kelso to take the lead.
Considerable changes occurred within the last five minutes. Several riders improved their lap times, with David Alonso (Gaviota GasGas Aspar) taking the lead, David Moreira (MT Helmets-MSi/KTM) in second, Veijer in third, and Ryusei Yamanaka (Gaviota GasGas Aspar) in fourth.
Right at the end, Masiá improved his time and secured the lead, 0.111s ahead of Alonso. He missed to improve his morning session’s fastest lap time by just a thousandth of a second. Moreira finished in third, followed by Veijer and Yamanaka to round out the top five.
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