#AmericasGP Moto2 WU: Nakagami surprises Morbidelli

A present but shy sun warming the track to 20° and an atmosphere at 16° welcomed the Moto2 onto an Austin track which opens the third Grand Prix of the season. A deadline that Iker Lecuona will not experience, who pushed himself to the limit after having completed all the test sessions after returning from a heavy convalescence. On Saturday, Morbidelli dominated the proceedings to take his second pole position of the season.

A situation which was this before the last test gallop preliminary to the race:

 

#AmericasGP Moto2	2016	2017
FP1	2'10.156 Alex Rins	2'11.606 Miguel Oliveira
FP2	2'09.564 Alex Rins	2'10.601 Alex Marquez
FP3	2'09.981 Sam Lowes	2'10.164 Alex Marquez
QP	2'08.850 Alex Rins	2'09.379 Franco Morbidelli
Warm Up	2'10.237 Takaaki Nakagami
Course	Rins Lowes Zarco
All time lap record	2'08.850 Alex Rins 2016

 

The exercise was carried out clearly with a Morbidely dominating a Nakagami wide awake and promising for the future. This until the final seconds, when the Japanese achieved a 2'10.089 ensuring him the top of the timesheet.

The poleman was therefore content with second position in front Lüthi and Olive tree still in ambush for KTM. Alex Marquez closed the top 5 at Simeon et Pasini while Yonny Hernandez was finally in the top 10 with an eighth performance. Schrotter follows for Suter and Courses also but for SpeedUp.

Xavier Vierge is eighteenth with the Mistral 610 and Fabio Quartararo discreet twenty-first.

#AmericasGP Moto2 WU: Chronos

1	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	2'10.089
2	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	2'10.112	0.023	0.023
3	12	Thomas luthi	Kalex	2'10.257	0.168	0.145
4	44	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	2'10.799	0.710	0.542
5	73	Alex Marquez	Kalex	2'10.967	0.878	0.168
6	19	Xavier Simeon	Kalex	2'11.071	0.982	0.104
7	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	2'11.170	1.081	0.099
8	68	Yonny Hernandez	Kalex	2'11.265	1.176	0.095
9	23	Marcel schrotter	Suter	2'11.282	1.193	0.017
10	24	Simone Courses	Speed ​​Up	2'11.353	1.264	0.071
11	77	Dominique Aegerter	Suter	2'11.418	1.329	0.065
12	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	2'11.425	1.336	0.007
13	9	Jorge Navarro	Kalex	2'11.475	1.386	0.050
14	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	2'11.548	1.459	0.073
15	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	2'11.551	1.462	0.003
16	32	Isaac Viñales	Kalex	2'11.562	1.473	0.011
17	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	2'11.575	1.486	0.013
18	97	Xavi Verge	Tech 3	2'11.696	1.607	0.121
19	11	Sandra Cortese	Suter	2'11.725	1.636	0.029
20	60	Julian Simon	Tech 3	2'11.785	1.696	0.060
21	40	fabio quartararo	Kalex	2'11.970	1.881	0.185
22	10	Luca marini	Kalex	2'12.045	1.956	0.075
23	88	Ricard Cardus	KTM	2'12.054	1.965	0.009
24	5	Andrea Locatelli	Kalex	2'12.146	2.057	0.092
25	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	2'12.148	2.059	0.002
26	42	Francis Bagnaia	Kalex	2'12.327	2.238	0.179
27	45	Tetsuta nagashima	Kalex	2'12.346	2.257	0.019
28	89	Khairul Idham Pawi	Kalex	2'12.506	2.417	0.160
29	52	Danny Kent	Suter	2'12.599	2.510	0.093
30	62	Stefano manzi	Kalex	2'13.238	3.149	0.639
31	47	Axel Bassani	Speed ​​Up	2'13.631	3.542	0.393