#CzechGP Moto3 Qualifications: Champagne for Rodrigo reminiscent of Porto!

It was under a still mild sky heating the Brno track to 46° that the starting grid for the Czech Republic Grand Prix, Moto3 version, was going to be decided. During the last trial gallop, it was Open up who had achieved the best time despite a fall. An adventure that the Italian seemed to take a liking to like some of his colleagues in a chaotic start to the competition.

Before going into detail, here is the state of play…

 

#CzechGP Moto3	2016	2017
FP1	2'08.515 Enea Bastianini	2'21.970 Tim Georgi (see here)
FP2	2'08.047 Brad Binder	2'20.819 Joan Mir (see here)
FP3	2'07.713 Brad Binder	2'08.773 Niccolo Bulega
Qualification	2'07.785 Brad Binder
Warm up	2'22.759 John McPhee
Course	Mc Phee, Martin, Di Giannantonio (see here)
All time lap record	2'07.622 Alex Rins 2013

 

The first minutes of this qualification were indeed rich in emotions: Open up fell entering turn 9, then Cornfeel et Rodrigo clung to the glazing 14 before Tuff does not fall at turn 13. A series which fortunately ended as quickly as it began. During this time, fenati signed the first reference in 2'09.218.

Livio Law was betrayed by his bike at turn 3 and was annoyed to see his pace cut off. A pace that put him tenth. In the ranking, Migno, Ramirez, Canet et Mir led the hunt for fenati.  Open up was sixteenth and Danilo nineteenth.

As we begin the last quarter of an hour, Mir was in second place, only 44 thousandths behind Fenny5. By Giannantonio included the top 5 and our Danilo nationally was in a good seventh place. Five minutes from the goal, the entire field, almost, returned to the stands. In view of the big final explanation.

The consequence of this timing was traffic on the track worthy of a summer chase on the road. From this final bouquet, it is the Argentinian rocket Rodrigo which rose the highest, in Brno. Never has an Argentinian done so well since Oporto in 2500cc during the 2004 season. Down at the start of the session, he is at the top of the timesheet. fenati and Guevara follow while the second line is made up of Mir, Open up et Bendsnyeder.

Ramirez, By Giannantonio et Law occupy the third row. Oettl closes the top 10. McPhee et Migno fell during those crucial seconds. Danilo is eighteenth, just behind Canet.

#CzechGP Moto3 Qualifications: Chronos

1	19	Gabriel RODRIGO	KTM	2'08.571
2	5	Roman FENATI	Honda	2'08.721	0.150	0.150
3	58	Juanfran GUEVARA	KTM	2'08.874	0.303	0.153
4	36	Joan Mir	Honda	2'08.967	0.396	0.093
5	8	Nicholas BULEGA	KTM	2'08.971	0.400	0.004
6	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	KTM	2'08.991	0.420	0.020
7	42	Marcos RAMIREZ	KTM	2'09.043	0.472	0.052
8	21	Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO	Honda	2'09.142	0.571	0.099
9	11	Livio LOI	Honda	2'09.148	0.577	0.006
10	65	Philipp OETTL	KTM	2'09.187	0.616	0.039
11	71	Ayumu SASAKI	Honda	2'09.348	0.777	0.161
12	23	Niccolo ANTONELLI	KTM	2'09.358	0.787	0.010
13	24	Tatsuki SUZUKI	Honda	2'09.359	0.788	0.001
14	16	Andrea MIGNO	KTM	2'09.361	0.790	0.002
15	41	Nakarin ATIRATPHUVAPAT	Honda	2'09.479	0.908	0.118
16	14	Tony ARBOLINO	Honda	2'09.543	0.972	0.064
17	44	Aaron CANET	Honda	2'09.547	0.976	0.004
18	95	Jules DANILO	Honda	2'09.565	0.994	0.018
19	17	John MCPHEE	Honda	2'09.583	1.012	0.018
20	33	Enea BASTIANINI	Honda	2'09.614	1.043	0.031
21	6	Maria HERRERA	KTM	2'09.698	1.127	0.084
22	48	Lorenzo FROM THE DOOR	Mahindra	2'09.730	1.159	0.032
23	27	Kaito TOBA	Honda	2'09.762	1.191	0.032
24	84	Jakub KORNFEIL	Peugeot	2'10.168	1.597	0.406
25	7	Adam NORRODIN	Honda	2'10.176	1.605	0.008
26	10	Dennis FOGGIA	KTM	2'10.198	1.627	0.022
27	75	Albert Arenas	Mahindra	2'10.222	1.651	0.024
28	96	Manuel PAGLIANI	Mahindra	2'10.578	2.007	0.356
29	12	Marco BEZZECCHI	Mahindra	2'10.803	2.232	0.225
30	77	Tim GEORGI	KTM	2'10.841	2.270	0.038
31	4	Patrick PULKKINEN	Peugeot	2'11.450	2.879	0.609
32	18	Gabriel MARTINEZ-ABREGO	KTM	2'12.424	3.853	0.974