Following a decent pace in this morning’s Warm Up at the TT Circuit Assen, Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Deniz Öncü had a great start off the line, which saw him moving up from P15 to 10th. Yet, he was back in 12th by the end of the first lap.

The second day of action at the TT Circuit Assen started with bright sunshine, especially on the side of Deniz Öncü. The Red Bull KTM Tech3 rider managed to improve on his Friday’s practice time by 0.662 seconds in FP3 this morning, which brought him to fifth in the combined standings and therefore straight to Q2.

Red Bull KTM Tech3 rider Deniz Öncü familiarized himself today with the TT Circuit in Assen aboard his KTM Moto3 machine. The Turkish youngster built up his feeling throughout Friday and managed to improve his FP1 time by 0.501 seconds in FP2, although it slightly started to rain towards the end of the second session. Yet, his fastest lap of 1:42.893 made him sit in 18th position overall, just 0.453 seconds off the top 10.