#AustrianGP Moto2 FP3: Lüthi dominates and Sam Lowes already at Forward?

Yesterday, Friday, during the first day of the Austrian Grand Prix, the Moto2s played with the clouds to leave us facing an assumed duel between the first two in the championship who are Morbidelli and Lüthi. A fight that Miguel Oliveira will want to referee with an equally fast KTM while the troublemaker Pasini can be capable of the best or the worst. What is the outlook for this Saturday?

Before giving the answer, here is the situation in table. For this start of a second day, the highlight of which will be the qualifications, the Austrian sky appears overcast but mild, while the track is warm at 23°.

 

#AustrianGP Moto2	2016	2017
FP1	1'30.117 Johann Zarco	1'31.203 Miguel Oliveira
FP2	1'29.695 Tom Lüthi	1'30.211 Franco Morbidelli
FP3	1'29.598 Johann Zarco
Qualification	1'29.255 Johann Zarco

At the start of the exercise, we were informed of a Danny Kent still crumpled from its collision in the rain suffered yesterday with Alex Marquez. We also learned that Sam Lowes, forced to leave his Aprilia post in MotoGP for next season, was in contact with the Forward team for a return to the category that could be considered shattering.

Tom Luthi announced the color from the first minutes with a 1'30.020 giving hope for a session finally at least as fast as that of last year. Because it is clear that, since the start of this Moto2 season, the 2017 pace is lower than that of 2016.

While the Swiss twisted his Kalex, Miguel Oliveira fell at turn 4 to the great despair of the Austrian public, all committed to the KTM cause. After fifteen minutes of work, Lüthi insisted by setting the first time under 1'30 of the weekend in 1'29.738. Alex Marquez, his runner-up, was pushed back by more than half a second… Isaac Viñales took the pursuit by a little more than four tenths and Xavier Virgo was fourth with the Mistral610. Quarterly closed the top 10 and Morbidely was in seventh place.

As the last quarter of an hour approaches, Pasini was under 1'30 in 1'29.995. Morbidely was starting to worry by vegetating in the ninth row. The final sprint was a trio in 1'29 with a Lüthi sparkling leader followed by bagnaia and Pasini. Alex Marquez led the rest of the peloton in front of a Olive tree well back in the top 5 with the KTM. Vinales, first name Isaac, is sixth in front Morbidely, discreet this morning. Marini follows the same as Quarterly encouraging ninth whileagitated closes the top 10 with its Suter at the Mistral610 of Virgin.

#AustrianGP Moto2 FP3: Chronos

1	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	1'29.738
2	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'29.903	0.165	0.165
3	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'29.906	0.168	0.003
4	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'30.073	0.335	0.167
5	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'30.094	0.356	0.021
6	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'30.115	0.377	0.021
7	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'30.186	0.448	0.071
8	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'30.348	0.610	0.162
9	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'30.393	0.655	0.045
10	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'30.456	0.718	0.063
11	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'30.462	0.724	0.006
12	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'30.471	0.733	0.009
13	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'30.509	0.771	0.038
14	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'30.548	0.810	0.039
15	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'30.555	0.817	0.007
16	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'30.587	0.849	0.032
17	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'30.607	0.869	0.020
18	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'30.692	0.954	0.085
19	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	1'30.760	1.022	0.068
20	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'30.793	1.055	0.033
21	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'30.855	1.117	0.062
22	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'30.861	1.123	0.006
23	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'30.913	1.175	0.052
24	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'30.966	1.228	0.053
25	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'31.044	1.306	0.078
26	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'31.225	1.487	0.181
27	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'31.238	1.500	0.013
28	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'31.424	1.686	0.186
29	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'31.524	1.786	0.100
30	52	Danny Kent	Suter	1'31.847	2.109	0.323
31	20	Joe ROBERTS	Kalex	1'31.861	2.123	0.014
32	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'32.611	2.873	0.750