#AustrianGP Moto2 Qualifying: Pasini ahead of Morbidelli by a thousandth

It was under overcast skies but dry weather and a track heated to 27° that the Moto2s were going to perform for their qualifying session in Austria. Since this morning, it was Tom Lüthi who set his pace in front of the beginner Bagnaia who was ahead of his elder from the VR46 Academy, Pasini. Oliveira was fifth with the local KTM while there was concern for Morbidelli in seventh. But the most important thing was now.

To put your thoughts in order, here is the situation table:

 

#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	1'29.738 Tom Lüthi
Qualification	1'29.255 Johann Zarco

 

input, Pasini made the talk with a 1'29.394 which brought him closer to the track record established last year by Johann zarco. The two Marc VDS Racing drivers Morbidely et Alex Marquez followed in the ranking but almost half a second behind. But it's still Bagniaia who took the pursuit into his own hands by signing the second performance.

Xavier Vierge, for his part, destroyed his Mistral 610 in a pattern imposed by the laws of gravity, practically following his teammate at the same time. It was also on the parts of the latter's motorcycle that the Spaniard slipped and fell. A solidarity in the misfortune that the Tech3 team would have done without.

The first quarter of an hour passed Lüthi take second position and Quarterly the fifth, in front Morbidely. The latter was pushing hard to get into the leading trio. NAVARRO restored a desperate situation and thus avoided a fall and damage to his motorcycle less than twenty minutes before the end of hostilities. A pitfall that could not be avoided Courses which fell at turn 9.

Virgin rejoined the track with a repaired Mistral610 for the final fifteen minutes of the performance. We learned that Danny Kent suffered the martyr since his fall on Friday, but the Englishman replacing Schrotter injured didn't want to throw in the towel.

Five minutes from time, Pasini still held pole position ahead of a bagnaia decidedly peevish and Lüthi who was going out Morbidely of the first provisional line. A strategic position that the championship leader recovered and even better than that since he only failed by a thousandth against a Pasini which therefore takes its second consecutive top position after that of Brno.

Alex Marquez takes the last cone of the first row, leaving the second to bagnaia, Lüthi et Quarterly. Issac Vinales follows as well asOlive tree with the KTM and Nakagami. Despite his misfortunes, Virgin is tenth.

#AustrianGP Moto2 Qualifying: Chronos

1	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'29.394
2	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'29.395	0.001	0.001
3	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'29.570	0.176	0.175
4	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'29.581	0.187	0.011
5	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	1'29.696	0.302	0.115
6	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'29.855	0.461	0.159
7	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'29.868	0.474	0.013
8	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'29.998	0.604	0.130
9	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'30.097	0.703	0.099
10	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'30.101	0.707	0.004
11	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'30.116	0.722	0.015
12	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'30.148	0.754	0.032
13	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'30.175	0.781	0.027
14	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'30.247	0.853	0.072
15	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'30.258	0.864	0.011
16	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'30.262	0.868	0.004
17	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'30.276	0.882	0.014
18	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'30.286	0.892	0.010
19	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'30.294	0.900	0.008
20	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	1'30.347	0.953	0.053
21	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'30.363	0.969	0.016
22	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'30.585	1.191	0.222
23	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'30.591	1.197	0.006
24	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'30.624	1.230	0.033
25	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'30.738	1.344	0.114
26	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'30.778	1.384	0.040
27	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'30.960	1.566	0.182
28	20	Joe ROBERTS	Kalex	1'31.092	1.698	0.132
29	52	Danny Kent	Suter	1'31.293	1.899	0.201
30	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'31.807	2.413	0.514
31	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'31.825	2.431	0.018
32	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'31.840	2.446	0.015