#BritishGP Moto2 Qualifying: Pasini's third consecutive pole

In MotoGP a certain Marc Marquez had just set the new MotoGP track record with a performance under two minutes per lap. In Moto2, the ambition was of course different, but the category was dominated since Friday afternoon by brother Alex Marquez. The latter was therefore expected around the corner…

In the meantime, here is the situation and the reference times…

 

#BritishGP Moto2™	2016	2017
FP1	2'09.346 Sam Lowes (see here)	2'08.191 Dominique Aegerter
FP2ic	2'08.428 Sam Lowes (see here)	2'07.491 Alex Marquez
FP3	2'07.564 Sam Lowes (see here)	2'06.996 Alex Marquez
Qualification	2'26.740 Sam Lowes (see here)
Warm Up	2'16.695 Sam Lowes (see here)
Course	Lüthi, Morbidelli, Nakagami (see here)
All time lap record	2'06.345 Lowes 2015

 

Without preliminaries, Pasini signed a 2'06.622 which announced a danger to the track record of Sam Lowes established in 2015. The Italian veteran repeated his performance a lap later to the nearest thousandth. Never seen !  Alex Marquez, Morbidely et Olive tree could only observe the damage. agitated was sixth with Suter behind Nakagami and in front Lüthi.

Marquez, Morbidely et Marini and Nakagami joined Pasini below the 2'07 mark but without dislodging him from the lead of the session. Better still, the latter pushed the envelope a little further in 2'06.572 less than five minutes from the goal. Another two tenths and the record was up for grabs for the ItalTrans driver. But we left it there, which was already good since it was synonymous with third pole position in a row!

Alex Marquez et Morbidely complete the first line and Nakagami, Marini then the Suteragitated the second. Olive tree is eighth with the KTM in front Lüthi only ninth. Virgin is thirteenth with the Mistral610 and Quarterly twenty third.

#BritishGP Moto2 Qualifying: Chronos

1	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	2'06.572
2	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	2'06.794	0.222	0.222
3	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	2'06.817	0.245	0.023
4	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	2'06.936	0.364	0.119
5	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	2'06.983	0.411	0.047
6	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	2'07.024	0.452	0.041
7	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	2'07.061	0.489	0.037
8	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	2'07.124	0.552	0.063
9	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	2'07.245	0.673	0.121
10	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	2'07.271	0.699	0.026
11	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	2'07.299	0.727	0.028
12	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	2'07.382	0.810	0.083
13	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	2'07.606	1.034	0.224
14	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	2'07.659	1.087	0.053
15	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	2'07.674	1.102	0.015
16	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	2'07.732	1.160	0.058
17	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	2'07.795	1.223	0.063
18	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	2'07.904	1.332	0.109
19	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	2'07.986	1.414	0.082
20	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	2'07.991	1.419	0.005
21	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	2'08.206	1.634	0.215
22	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	2'08.216	1.644	0.010
23	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	2'08.305	1.733	0.089
24	15	Alex DE ANGELIS	Kalex	2'08.531	1.959	0.226
25	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	2'08.566	1.994	0.035
26	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	2'08.656	2.084	0.090
27	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	2'08.710	2.138	0.054
28	20	Joe ROBERTS	Kalex	2'08.859	2.287	0.149
29	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	2'08.880	2.308	0.021
30	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	2'09.105	2.533	0.225
31	94	Jake DIXON	Suter	2'09.227	2.655	0.122
32	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	2'09.884	3.312	0.657