Austin Moto2 Warm Up: Alex Marquez announces the color

The sun is out for this Sunday of the Grand Prix of the Americas and it is under a storm of blue skies that Moto2 begins its warm-up session. When the grip becomes precarious, the KTMs are at the party but when the track is more welcoming, it is the Kalex who take their revenge. On the one hand Miguel Oliveira, the other Alex Marquez, the brother of whom you know who achieved pole position and who, unlike his elder, will indeed start from the head of the starting grid. Who of the two will do better?

Before answering this question, here is the summary table of the facts…

 

Austin Moto2™	2017	2018
FP1	2'11.606 Miguel Oliveira	2'12.104 Miguel Oliveira
FP2	2'10.601 Alex Marquez	2'11.104 Miguel Oliveira
FP3	2'10.164 Alex Marquez	2'11.135 Mattia Pasini
Qualification	2'09.379 Franco Morbidelli	2'10.588 Alex Marquez
Warm Up	2'10.089 Takaaki Nakagami	2'11.216 Alex Marquez
Course	Morbidelli, Lüthi, Nakagami
All time lap record	2'08.850 Alex Rins 2016

 

17° on the post, 15° in the air, the protagonists set off on the bumpy Austin track which hurt the KTMs on Saturday. It will be recalled that no official from Mattighofen is registered in the top 10 despite the promises of the free sessions. In terms of disappointments, we must also cite a Baldassarri second in the provisional general but never in the rhythm since the start of his performance in Texas.

In 2'12.623, Mir signs the first reference in front Olive tree. The duel between the Austrian brand and the Belgian team resumes with a vengeance. lecuona didn't take long to take the initiative in 2'12.329, ahead of Alex Marquez. It will be recalled that the Swiss is the teammate of Sam Lowes, fifth at this point in the exercise.

Five minutes from time, Olive tree shows that the pace can be below 2'12 by signing a 2'11.751. A message received by lecuona, Mir et Alex Marquez who follow him. The latter did even better in 2'11.301. We note a Pasini only fifteenth. Baldassarri is eleventh, which is still better than his teammate Barbera, 23rd. But what about bagnaia, 20th?

Alex Marquez definitively marks his territory in 2'11.216, ahead Olive tree relegated to four tenths, and lecuona, Mir et Lowes. Quartararo is fifteenth, behind Aegerter.

Austin Moto2 Warm Up:

1	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	2'11.216
2	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	2'11.625	0.409	0.409
3	27	Iker LECUONA	KTM	2'11.848	0.632	0.223
4	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	2'11.952	0.736	0.104
5	22	Sam LOWES	KTM	2'12.017	0.801	0.065
6	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Kalex	2'12.034	0.818	0.017
7	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	2'12.106	0.890	0.072
8	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	2'12.196	0.980	0.090
9	24	Simone COURSES	Kalex	2'12.315	1.099	0.119
10	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	2'12.512	1.296	0.197
11	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	2'12.516	1.300	0.004
12	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	2'12.516	1.300
13	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	2'12.516	1.300
14	77	Dominique AEGERTER	KTM	2'12.521	1.305	0.005
15	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	Speed ​​Up	2'12.663	1.447	0.142
16	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	2'12.783	1.567	0.120
17	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	2'12.811	1.595	0.028
18	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Kalex	2'12.815	1.599	0.004
19	13	Roman FENATI	Kalex	2'12.843	1.627	0.028
20	62	Stefano MANZI	Suter	2'12.954	1.738	0.111
21	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	2'12.979	1.763	0.025
22	40	Hector BARBERA	Kalex	2'13.058	1.842	0.079
23	52	Danny Kent	Speed ​​Up	2'13.315	2.099	0.257
24	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	2'13.390	2.174	0.075
25	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	2'13.527	2.311	0.137
26	16	Joe ROBERTS	NTS	2'13.596	2.380	0.069
27	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	Tech 3	2'13.824	2.608	0.228
28	51	Eric GRANADO	Suter	2'13.856	2.640	0.032
29	4	Steven ODENDAAL	NTS	2'14.542	3.326	0.686
30	95	Jules DANILO	Kalex	2'14.710	3.494	0.168
31	63	Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN	Kalex	2'15.682	4.466	0.972
32	21	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	2'17.422	6.206	1.740