#FrenchGP Le Mans Moto2 FP3: Bagnaia achieves the feat!

After the overcast sky and the rain on Friday, the wild Moto2 team found itself at the end of Saturday morning on a Bugatti track with more lenient asphalt. The opportunity to improve your times and for the opponents of Baldassari the opportunity to challenge his best time achieved in the morning. In the afternoon rain, it was Alex Marquez who had shown his know-how. And today ?

Before embarking on qualifying, the Moto2 riders will take advantage of FP3 to iron out the final details. When we entered the stage, this was the situation on the clock:

 

#FrenchGP Moto2	2016	2017
FP1	1'37.903 Simone Corsi	1'38.158 Lorenzo Baldassari
FP2	1'37.370 Johann Zarco	1'46.931 Alex Marquez
FP3	1'37.358 Tom Lüthi
QP	1'36.847 Tom Lüthi
Warm up	1'37.556 Takaaki Nakagami
Course	Rins, Corsi, Lüthi
All time lap record	1'36.847 Tom Lüthi

 

14° in the air and 21° on a track resurfaced since last year and drying under the rays of a timid but brave sun, the conditions were, so to speak, acceptable for a regular fight in Moto2 .

After ten minutes of hostility, the emotion was at turn 6 where Alex Marquez was thrown from his Kalex, dragging into his misfortune a lecuona who asked for nothing. Axel Pons escaped a scare by shooting straight to avoid the two men in distress. At this moment, it is bagnaia who led the dance with a time of 1'38.739 ahead Morbidely.

Thirty minutes from the goal, Nakagami made a mistake at turn 14. Moment when Morbidely decided to take control of the session in 1'38.005. The fastest lap of the weekend. Lüthi et agitated was relegated to almost seven tenths. Remy gardner fell at turn 7, Courses at turn 6 and bagnaia and gravel got a fright without consequence.

Twenty minutes from the end, Alex Marquez was still in consultation at the medical center with his collateral victim lecuona. On the French side, Quarterly was seventeenth and Xavier Virgo on the Mistral 610 thirteenth. Morbidely still held the rope in front of the Swiss duo agitated et Lüthi now two tenths.

The last quarter of an hour started, Luca marini got angry and threatened the supremacy of his compatriot from Marc VDS Racing by 81 thousandths. Lüthi did better by taking the lead with a fine 1'37.855. At the same time, we learned of a broken collarbone for lecuona.

bagnaia accompanied Lüthi in the 1'37 lap zone and placed second in the provisional hierarchy. Morbidely replied but he failed only six thousandths behind the Interwetten driver. The last five minutes promised to turn into the final explanation. An epilogue that will be missed Pawi, made a mistake at turn 3. The first fifteen were grouped within the same second.

The championship leader increased his advantage to 1'37.553, a speed which will get the better of a Pasini huddled in his wake before falling at turn 13. End of game? It's not knowing well bagnaia. The Moto2 beginner gave one last push to sign a 1'37.438 which gave him a good first place. Something to rejoice the VR46 team.

Morbidely is satisfied with second place in front Lüthi author of the same time, and Marini. agitated closes the top 5 as best Suter and Axel Pons follows in front Simeon et Cardus, leader at KTM. Yonny Hernandez is ninth and leaves it to Courses to complete the top 10.

Cortese leads the rest of the peloton made up in particular by Olive tree, Virgin et Quarterly, honorable fourteenth. Alex Marquez is finally twenty-fifth after having spent his session at the medical center.

#FrenchGP Le Mans Moto2 FP3: Chronos

1. Francis Bagnaia ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (Kalex) 1m 37.386s
2. Franco Morbidelli ITA EG 0,0 Marc VDS (Kalex) 1m 37.477s
3. Thomas luthi SWI CarXpert Interwetten (Kalex) 1m 37.477s

4. Luca marini ITA Forward Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 37.629s
5. Dominique Aegerter SWI Kiefer Racing (Suter) 1m 37.849s
6. Axel Pons SPA RW Racing GP (Kalex) 1m 37.891s
7. Xavier Simeon BEL Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 (Kalex) 1m 38.017s
8. Ricard Cardus SPA Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 1m 38.030s
9. Yonny Hernandez COL AGR Team (Kalex) 1m 38.036s
10. Simone Courses ITA Speed ​​Up Racing (Speed ​​Up) 1m 38.043s
11. Sandra Cortese GER Dynavolt Intact GP (Suter) 1m 38.073s
12. Miguel Oliveira POR Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 1m 38.077s
13. Xavi Verge SPA Tech 3 Racing (Tech 3) 1m 38.121s
14. fabio quartararo FRA Pons HP40 (Kalex) 1m 38.233s
15. Hafiz Syahrin MAL Petronas Raceline Malaysia (Kalex) 1m 38.234s
16. Takaaki Nakagami JPN IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia (Kalex) 1m 38.237s
17. Lorenzo Baldassarri ITA Forward Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 38.267s
18. Jorge Navarro SPA Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 (Kalex) 1m 38.304s
19. Mattia Pasini ITA Italtrans Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 38.330s
20. Isaac Viñales SPA BE-A-VIP SAG Team (Kalex) 1m 38.533s
21. Tetsuta nagashima JPN Teluru SAG Team (Kalex) 1m 38.546s
22. Andrea Locatelli ITA Italtrans Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 38.550s
23. Marcel schrotter GER Dynavolt Intact GP (Suter) 1m 38.755s
24. Jesko Raffin SWI Garage Plus Interwetten (Kalex) 1m 38.755s
25. Stefano manzi ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (Kalex) 1m 39.310s
26. Iker Lecuona SPA Garage Plus Interwetten (Kalex) 1m 39.495s
27. Axel Bassani ITA Speed ​​Up Racing (Speed ​​Up) 1m 39.677s
28. Remy gardner AUS Tech 3 Racing (Tech 3) 1m 39.704s
29. Alex Marquez SPA EG 0,0 Marc VDS (Kalex) 1m 39.707s
30. Tarran Mackenzie GBR Kiefer Racing (Suter) 1m 39.708s
31. Edgar Pons SPA Pons HP40 (Kalex) 1m 40.476s
32. Khairul Idham Pawi MAL IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia (Kalex) 1m 41.656s