Takaaki Nakagami has continued to impress at Qatar, topping the timesheets in the final session of practice for the Moto2 class. The Japanese rider just edged Pol Espargaro to push the title favorite down into 2nd. Scott Redding took 3rd, the Marc VDS Racing man a quarter of a second behind Espargaro, and ahead of Espargaro's teammate Tito Rabat. Rabat in 4th was the last rider to get within a second of leader Nakagami.
There was a reason for this. A front is holding just off the Qatari peninsula, causing gusts of wind and rain to hit the track. The rain is enough to unnerve the riders, but not to wet the track, though the wind is what is hardest to cope with, gusting very hard from time to time.
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