It was a track a little more welcoming than the one covered by the other two categories this morning which the Moto2s discovered for their last test gallop before qualifying this afternoon. Yesterday, Friday, it was Alex Márquez who imposed his pace on a peloton where both the Suter and the KTM showed their ambitions to challenge the hegemony of the Kalex. Would Aegerter for Switzerland and Oliveira for Austria achieve the feat?
Before answering this question, here is the situation:
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#BritishGP Moto2™ |
2016 |
2017 |
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FP1 |
2'09.346 Sam Lowes (see here) |
2'08.191 Dominique Aegerter |
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FP2ic |
2'08.428 Sam Lowes (see here) |
2'07.491 Alex Marquez |
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FP3 |
2'07.564 Sam Lowes (see here) |
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Qualification |
2'26.740 Sam Lowes (see here) |
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Warm Up |
2'16.695 Sam Lowes (see here) |
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Course |
Lüthi, Morbidelli, Nakagami (see here) |
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All time lap record |
2'06.345 Lowes 2015 |
The track was 23° and mostly dry. In 2'07.958, Alex Marquez confirmed its supremacy from the start, ahead of Morbidely et Lüthi who then took the lead in 2'07.840. Olive tree, fourth maintained the desires of KTM.
More Alex Marquez, stung, posted the best time of the weekend in 2'06.996 after a quarter of an hour of competition. Morbidely, Lüthi, Pasini, Olive tree et Baldassarri were hanging behind whose brother you know. Quarterly, convalescing, was twenty-second.
The last five minutes were on the horizon and NAVARRO fell in turn 12 and lecuona shot straight. But all this was happening far from a Alex Marquez perfectly mastering his subject... But not his nerves on a bagnaia lost on the trajectory in sight of the checkered flag…
#BritishGP Moto2 FP3: Chronos
| 1 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | Kalex | 2'06.996 | ||
| 2 | 21 | Frank MORBIDELLI | Kalex | 2'07.364 | 0.368 | 0.368 |
| 3 | 54 | Matthias PASINI | Kalex | 2'07.567 | 0.571 | 0.203 |
| 4 | 12 | Thomas LUTHI | Kalex | 2'07.840 | 0.844 | 0.273 |
| 5 | 7 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Kalex | 2'07.910 | 0.914 | 0.070 |
| 6 | 87 | Remy GARDNER | Tech 3 | 2'07.917 | 0.921 | 0.007 |
| 7 | 44 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | KTM | 2'07.927 | 0.931 | 0.010 |
| 8 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Kalex | 2'08.028 | 1.032 | 0.101 |
| 9 | 24 | Simone COURSES | Speed Up | 2'08.193 | 1.197 | 0.165 |
| 10 | 32 | Isaac VIÑALES | Kalex | 2'08.202 | 1.206 | 0.009 |
| 11 | 97 | Xavi VIRGIN | Tech 3 | 2'08.236 | 1.240 | 0.034 |
| 12 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 2'08.441 | 1.445 | 0.205 |
| 13 | 9 | Jorge NAVARRO | Kalex | 2'08.481 | 1.485 | 0.040 |
| 14 | 49 | Axel PONS | Kalex | 2'08.557 | 1.561 | 0.076 |
| 15 | 62 | Stefano MANZI | Kalex | 2'08.559 | 1.563 | 0.002 |
| 16 | 77 | Dominique AEGERTER | Suter | 2'08.597 | 1.601 | 0.038 |
| 17 | 41 | Brad BINDER | KTM | 2'08.641 | 1.645 | 0.044 |
| 18 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | Kalex | 2'08.663 | 1.667 | 0.022 |
| 19 | 45 | Tetsuit NAGASHIMA | Kalex | 2'08.772 | 1.776 | 0.109 |
| 20 | 40 | Fabio QUARTARARO | Kalex | 2'08.849 | 1.853 | 0.077 |
| 21 | 11 | Sandro CORTESE | Suter | 2'08.891 | 1.895 | 0.042 |
| 22 | 10 | Luca MARINI | Kalex | 2'08.907 | 1.911 | 0.016 |
| 23 | 5 | Andrea LOCATELLI | Kalex | 2'09.016 | 2.020 | 0.109 |
| 24 | 27 | Iker LECUONA | Kalex | 2'09.099 | 2.103 | 0.083 |
| 25 | 37 | Augusto FERNANDEZ | Speed Up | 2'09.106 | 2.110 | 0.007 |
| 26 | 15 | Alex DE ANGELIS | Kalex | 2'09.309 | 2.313 | 0.203 |
| 27 | 6 | Tarran MACKENZIE | Suter | 2'09.674 | 2.678 | 0.365 |
| 28 | 57 | Edgar PONS | Kalex | 2'09.675 | 2.679 | 0.001 |
| 29 | 2 | Jesko RAFFIN | Kalex | 2'09.677 | 2.681 | 0.002 |
| 30 | 20 | Joe ROBERTS | Kalex | 2'09.789 | 2.793 | 0.112 |
| 31 | 94 | Jake DIXON | Suter | 2'10.805 | 3.809 | 1.016 |
| 32 | 89 | Khairul Idham PAWI | Kalex | 2'11.752 | 4.756 | 0.947 |
