#BritishGP MotoGP FP2: Crutchlow in the sky and Marquez twice on the ground

For its 40th anniversary, the British Grand Prix will celebrate two things at Silverstone. On the one hand schedule individuals due to mechanical and media competition and, on the other hand, an unprecedented procedure for changing motorcycles in the event of flag to flag. If the first originality will be experienced on Sunday, the second will be discovered at the end of this FP2. So we will look at that closely.

In the meantime, on the track side, this was the situation when riding under a beautiful sun and a track at 36°

 

#BritishGP MotoGP™	2016	2017
FP1	2'02.483 Maverick Vinales (see here)	2'02.130 Maverick Vinales
FP2	2'01.421 Andrea Iannone (see here)
FP3	2'00.944 Marc Marquez (see here)
FP4	2'17.678 Marc Marquez (see here)
Q1	2'18.193 Eugene Laverty (see here)
Q2	2'19.265 Cal Crutchlow (see here)
Warm Up	2'15.285 Yonny Hernandez (see here)
Course	Vinales, Crutchlow, Rossi (see here)
All time lap record	2'00.234 Marquez 2015

 

The start of the session, however, gave its share of emotions with a violent drop in Marc Marquez in turn 4. The championship leader got up after a moment and seemed unharmed when he returned to his box. A reassuring state that the pilot confirmed to his team.

An incident that did not cool down the local hero Crutchlow who signed an intimidating 2'01.730 which pushed back Red his closest pursuer more than half a second away. Vinales et Dovizioso followed, just like Alex Espargaro again there with his Aprilia. As for Marquez, he reassured everyone by taking second place, thirty-one thousandths behind the Englishman as soon as he came out with his second bike!

Another push of the collar and the five-time title winner finally took the lead, showing everyone that he was in no way impressed by his very recent accident.

Ten minutes from the goal, the feeling came from Pol Espargaro who took third place with his KTM. The other RC16 of Bradley Smith crossed during this time in twenty second place… Vinales, Red, Lorenzo, Alex Espargaro, Dovizioso et zarco then closed the strategic top 10 where Pedrosa was a notable absentee.

Five minutes from time, Crutchlow launched a new offensive to position itself on the crest of 2'00 per lap. Marquez was pushed back more than seven tenths and suffered his second fall of the afternoon at turn 13. The Spaniard was in fact forced to throw in the towel, having damaged his two machines in a single session.

The checkered flag saluted one of which Crutchlow triumphing alone under the 2'00 mark. Red followed and Vinales also just like Alex Espargaro et Marquez closing the top 5. Lorenzo was sixth ahead of an explosive Espargaro Pol with his KTM which was ahead zarco, Dovizioso still with the old fairing, and Redding which deprived the two official Suzukis of the top 10 by Iannone.

Baz was fifteenth and Pedrosa a distant seventeenth...

As for the new procedure, here is an example…

#BritishGP MotoGP FP2:

1	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	2'00.897
2	46	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	2'01.138	0.241	0.241
3	25	Maverick VIÑALES	Yamaha	2'01.168	0.271	0.030
4	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	2'01.592	0.695	0.424
5	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	2'01.611	0.714	0.019
6	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	2'01.655	0.758	0.044
7	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	2'01.832	0.935	0.177
8	5	johann zarco	Yamaha	2'01.885	0.988	0.053
9	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	2'01.893	0.996	0.008
10	45	Scott REDDING	Ducati	2'01.933	1.036	0.040
11	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	2'01.974	1.077	0.041
12	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	2'02.072	1.175	0.098
13	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Ducati	2'02.097	1.200	0.025
14	17	Karel ABRAHAM	Ducati	2'02.098	1.201	0.001
15	76	Loris BAZ	Ducati	2'02.202	1.305	0.104
16	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	Ducati	2'02.250	1.353	0.048
17	26	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	2'02.408	1.511	0.158
18	43	Jack Miller	Honda	2'02.507	1.610	0.099
19	94	Jonas Folger	Yamaha	2'02.580	1.683	0.073
20	8	Hector BARBERA	Ducati	2'02.735	1.838	0.155
21	53	Tito RABAT	Honda	2'02.860	1.963	0.125
22	22	Sam LOWES	Aprilia	2'03.475	2.578	0.615
23	38	Bradley SMITH	KTM	2'04.429	3.532	0.954