AustrianGP Moto2 WU: Morbidelli and Lüthi already in a fight

Mild weather and an 18° track welcome the Moto2 riders for their final test gallop before the Austrian Grand Prix race which marks the eleventh meeting of the year. The championship is led by Franco Morbidelli but the Italian had to lose on Saturday to his compatriot and elder Pasini. For a small thousandth, the Marc VDS driver had the spotlight stolen by the man who is celebrating his 32nd birthday this Sunday. He will blow out his candles from the top of his thirteenth career peak position and his second in a row after that of Brno last weekend.

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#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

The session was initially delayed due to a track inspection ordered just after the end of the Moto3 warm-up. A control which will only delay the release of the wild animals by a few minutes. We learned that Syahrin saw all his times canceled due to incorrect tire pressure noted after the technical inspection. It was twelfth time. We also discovered the package of Danny Kent who therefore did not recover from his fall in the rain on Friday morning. The Briton, replacing Schrotter convalescent will, as we recall, pilot SpeedUp in Moto2 for the 2018 and 2019 seasons.

Alex Marquez, Morbidely et Lüthi were the first leading trio while Nakagami et Quarterly completed the top 5 at the start of the exercise which saw Brad Binder fall. The two Marc VDS drivers then continued to exchange positions at the top of the hierarchy. But with five minutes to go, it's Lüthi which set the pace in 1'29.921.

It's good though Morbidely who took the best morning time in 1'29.769 ahead of the Swiss and his teammate. Nakagami remembered the good memories of all in front bagnaia still a member of the top 5. Marini leads the rest of the peloton where we relieve and Quarterly ninth. Virgin puts the Mistral610 nineteenth.

AustrianGP Moto2 WU: Chronos

1	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'29.769
2	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	1'29.921	0.152	0.152
3	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'29.982	0.213	0.061
4	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'30.011	0.242	0.029
5	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'30.124	0.355	0.113
6	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'30.267	0.498	0.143
7	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'30.379	0.610	0.112
8	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'30.402	0.633	0.023
9	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'30.439	0.670	0.037
10	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'30.447	0.678	0.008
11	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'30.471	0.702	0.024
12	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'30.482	0.713	0.011
13	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'30.718	0.949	0.236
14	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'30.720	0.951	0.002
15	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'30.759	0.990	0.039
16	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'30.809	1.040	0.050
17	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'30.816	1.047	0.007
18	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'30.827	1.058	0.011
19	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'30.852	1.083	0.025
20	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	1'30.864	1.095	0.012
21	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'30.887	1.118	0.023
22	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'30.910	1.141	0.023
23	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'30.938	1.169	0.028
24	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'30.981	1.212	0.043
25	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'30.998	1.229	0.017
26	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'31.019	1.250	0.021
27	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'31.229	1.460	0.210
28	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'31.487	1.718	0.258
29	20	Joe ROBERTS	Kalex	1'31.549	1.780	0.062
30	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'31.708	1.939	0.159
31	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'31.979	2.210	0.271