#FrenchGP Le Mans Moto2 Warm-Up: Lüthi contains Bagnaia, Alex Marquez injured

A storm of blue skies welcomes the Moto2 onto a Le Mans track heated to 17° for a final tuning session before the hostilities of the race. Who will be the winner of this French Grand Prix, fifth meeting of the season? Tom Luthi holds the rope, since he will start from pole position.

To Alex Marquez, the latest winner in Jerez, it will be more complicated since yesterday's examinations carried out after his violent fall finally revealed a fracture in one foot. Since Saturday, here is the state of affairs with, in particular, a new Bugatti track record for the category:

#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	1'37.386 Pecco Bagnaia
QP	1'36.847 Tom Lüthi	1'36.548 Tom Lüthi
Warm up	1'37.556 Takaaki Nakagami
Course	Rins, Corsi, Lüthi
All time lap record	1'36.847 Tom Lüthi	1'36.548 Tom Lüthi

 

The same Alex Marquez will be there despite his injury. It's his teammate Morbidely which first set the tone in 1'37.623 before Lüthi does not raise his to 1'37.334. Marini, bagnaia et Alex Marquez took his suction while Virgin planted his Mistral610 in sixth place. In his enthusiasm, Marini fell at turn 8. The half-brother of Valentino Rossi finished fifth in Andalusia two weeks ago. The Italian has never done so well in Moto2.

The last assault on the Swiss fortress was made by bagnaia who took the CarXpert driver's reply in stride. In 1'37.063, the deal was settled and the VR46 driver was content with second place ahead of Baldassari which was revealed in the final seconds.

Courses et Alex Marquez complete the top5 whileOlive tree his KTM is sixth. Portuguese precedes Marina, his teammate Cardus et Morbidely who is satisfied with the ninth beat. It is Xavier Vierge which completes the top10. fabio quartararo is only twenty-third.

#FrenchGP Le Mans Moto2 Warm-Up: Chronos

1	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	1'37.063
2	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'37.133	0.070	0.070
3	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'37.179	0.116	0.046
4	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'37.373	0.310	0.194
5	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'37.403	0.340	0.030
6	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'37.470	0.407	0.067
7	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'37.473	0.410	0.003
8	88	Ricard CARDUS	KTM	1'37.546	0.483	0.073
9	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'37.564	0.501	0.018
10	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'37.639	0.576	0.075
11	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'37.665	0.602	0.026
12	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'37.695	0.632	0.030
13	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Suter	1'37.741	0.678	0.046
14	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'37.752	0.689	0.011
15	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'37.771	0.708	0.019
16	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'37.783	0.720	0.012
17	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	Kalex	1'37.926	0.863	0.143
18	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'37.937	0.874	0.011
19	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'37.945	0.882	0.008
20	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'37.997	0.934	0.052
21	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'38.026	0.963	0.029
22	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'38.044	0.981	0.018
23	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'38.266	1.203	0.222
24	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'38.354	1.291	0.088
25	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'38.405	1.342	0.051
26	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'38.445	1.382	0.040
27	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'38.551	1.488	0.106
28	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'38.995	1.932	0.444
29	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'39.412	2.349	0.417
30	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'39.983	2.920	0.571
31	47	Axel BASSANI	Speed ​​Up	1'40.301	3.238	0.318