The worst is never certain! And in place of the big storms predicted for this morning, we are currently only entitled to a few very light drops of intermittent rain, which does not prevent the Moto3 riders from setting off on slick tires for these 20 minutes warm up in the Czech Republic.
The track is at 22°, the air at 20°.
12 penalty places were imposed on Enea Bastianini et Albert Arenas for irresponsible conduct during qualifying. They will therefore start at the back of the grid.
#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 (see here) |
Qualification |
2'07.785 Brad Binder | 2'08.571 Gabriel Rodrigo (see here) |
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 |
Faced with more than uncertain weather, the Moto3 riders hasten to adopt a consistent pace. After a few minutes, John mcphee sets a pace of 2'09.527. He precedes the Argentine poleman gabriel rodrigo and, pleasant surprise, the feminine Maria Herrera.
Despite a particularly gray sky, the track remained dry, which allowed the Briton to come within half a second of the best qualifying time.
Two minutes from the checkered flag, we observe with pleasure that Jules Danilo took advantage of these ultimately rather good conditions for the motorcycles (fresh air for the engines, track not too hot unlike yesterday) to position themselves 10th.
Roman Fenati, his teammate, from whom much is expected for this race, is in 11th position while Joan mir, the championship leader, only appears in 19th place.
