The Red Bull KTM Tech3 duo of Ayumu Sasaki and Deniz Öncü experienced a tricky Friday at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya today. Sasaki landed inside the top 20 this morning and did his fastest lap of the day in FP1. Yet, the increasing wind didn’t facilitate proceedings for the Moto3 World Championship riders this afternoon and the Japanese youngster was unable to improve further during the second session.

Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Deniz Öncü displayed an impressive performance in today’s Gran Premio dell’Emilia Romagna e della Riviera di Rimini. Starting from 12^th on the grid, the Moto3 rookie was fighting hard to keep up with the top, lost the contact a bit around half way through the race, but was recovering from 15^th with each lap. In a clever way, he made up position by position to finally see the flag in a strong seventh place.

Following a tough Friday at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Deniz Öncü made the most of the track time available this morning and lowered his fastest lap from yesterday by 0.670 seconds to conclude the Free Practice sessions in 19^th overall. In Qualifying one, the Moto3 rookie did a fantastic time of 1:42.223 to secure P1, which made him passing through to Q2. In the second decisive session, he pushed hard again and finally did the 13^th fastest lap time, which makes him start tomorrow’s eighth round of the 2020 season at 11:00 local time from the fifth row of the grid.