This German Moto2 Grand Prix is not one you should miss if you want to leave for your summer vacation with peace of mind. At the end of the meeting on the Sachsenring, the calendar will indeed give the drivers a respite. For Francis Bagnaia, the opportunity is ideal to impact the morale of his adversaries, but the latter see the deadline as an opportunity to get back to the VR46 pilot!
bagnaia has four victories in eight Grands Prix and he leads the championship with 16 points ahead of the official KTM Olive tree. But others, for equally legitimate reasons, will want to shine this weekend: Marcel Schrötter will thus be in front of his audience while fabio quartararo would see himself getting on the podium for the third time in a row, which no one has managed to do so far with a Speed-Up…
Before getting started, here is the table providing an overview…
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Sachsenring Moto2 |
2017 |
2018 |
| FP1 | 1'24.976 Miguel Oliveira | |
| FP2 | 1'24.848 Tom Lüthi | |
| FP3 | 1'24.130 Franco Morbidelli | |
| Qualification | 1'32.159 Franco Morbidelli | |
| Warm Up | 1'26.014 Francesco Bagnaia | |
| Course | Morbidelli, Oliveira, Bagnaia | |
| All time lap record | 1'24.044 Johann Zarco 2015 |
20° in the air, 35° on the track, the sun is shining in Germany. In 1'25.405, lecuona establishes the first benchmark ahead of the former winner of this German Grand Prix agitated. The two men seem to announce a good weekend for KTM. Alex Marquez follows and he is pursued by the two SpeedUps of Kent and Quarterly. So much so that we only have one Kalex in the top 5…
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After twenty minutes, Olive tree et Brad Binder enter the top 5, thus presenting an almost perfect Austrian picture. Especially since bagnaia, the rival and leader in the championship is only twenty-sixth… at 1s 075 however!
The last quarter of an hour started, Mir takes a little off-track excursion at turn 13. He is sixteenth. But up front, it's still the KTMs that rule the roost. Binder nevertheless falls at turn 13. He is seventh in front Quarterly.
In 1'25.172, Argerter moves to the top of the hierarchy. Danilo crash at turn 8. He is twenty-ninth. Alex Marquez goes off the track. He is fourth whileOlive tree if hoist second. We will remember that Monsieur Frère fell heavily last year on this circuit, injuring his vertebrae.
Baldassarri reveals himself in the last minute by finishing second. But for three thousandths, Locatelli deprives him of politeness. But agitated will remain leader! Quarterly is eleventh and bagnaia an anonymous twenty-fifth.
German Grand Prix Sachsenring Moto2 FP1: Chronos
| 1 | 77 | Dominique AEGERTER | KTM | 1'25.172 | ||
| 2 | 5 | Andrea LOCATELLI | Kalex | 1'25.198 | 0.026 | 0.026 |
| 3 | 7 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Kalex | 1'25.201 | 0.029 | 0.003 |
| 4 | 44 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | KTM | 1'25.331 | 0.159 | 0.130 |
| 5 | 27 | Iker LECUONA | KTM | 1'25.405 | 0.233 | 0.074 |
| 6 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | Kalex | 1'25.477 | 0.305 | 0.072 |
| 7 | 22 | Sam LOWES | KTM | 1'25.487 | 0.315 | 0.010 |
| 8 | 13 | Roman FENATI | Kalex | 1'25.582 | 0.410 | 0.095 |
| 9 | 40 | Augusto FERNANDEZ | Kalex | 1'25.611 | 0.439 | 0.029 |
| 10 | 41 | Brad BINDER | KTM | 1'25.630 | 0.458 | 0.019 |
| 11 | 20 | Fabio QUARTARARO | Speed Up | 1'25.634 | 0.462 | 0.004 |
| 12 | 32 | Isaac VIÑALES | Kalex | 1'25.641 | 0.469 | 0.007 |
| 13 | 52 | Danny Kent | Speed Up | 1'25.648 | 0.476 | 0.007 |
| 14 | 10 | Luca MARINI | Kalex | 1'25.649 | 0.477 | 0.001 |
| 15 | 54 | Matthias PASINI | Kalex | 1'25.656 | 0.484 | 0.007 |
| 16 | 23 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Kalex | 1'25.693 | 0.521 | 0.037 |
| 17 | 87 | Remy GARDNER | Tech 3 | 1'25.753 | 0.581 | 0.060 |
| 18 | 24 | Simone COURSES | Kalex | 1'25.804 | 0.632 | 0.051 |
| 19 | 36 | Joan Mir | Kalex | 1'25.905 | 0.733 | 0.101 |
| 20 | 97 | Xavi VIRGIN | Kalex | 1'25.946 | 0.774 | 0.041 |
| 21 | 62 | Stefano MANZI | Suter | 1'25.985 | 0.813 | 0.039 |
| 22 | 64 | Bo BENDSNEYDER | Tech 3 | 1'26.080 | 0.908 | 0.095 |
| 23 | 4 | Steven ODENDAAL | NTS | 1'26.146 | 0.974 | 0.066 |
| 24 | 9 | Jorge NAVARRO | Kalex | 1'26.215 | 1.043 | 0.069 |
| 25 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 1'26.322 | 1.150 | 0.107 |
| 26 | 89 | Khairul Idham PAWI | Kalex | 1'26.328 | 1.156 | 0.006 |
| 27 | 45 | Tetsuit NAGASHIMA | Kalex | 1'26.460 | 1.288 | 0.132 |
| 28 | 51 | Eric GRANADO | Suter | 1'26.927 | 1.755 | 0.467 |
| 29 | 95 | Jules DANILO | Kalex | 1'27.082 | 1.910 | 0.155 |
| 30 | 16 | Joe ROBERTS | NTS | 1'27.111 | 1.939 | 0.029 |
| 31 | 66 | Niki TUULI | Kalex | 1'27.351 | 2.179 | 0.240 |
| 32 | 21 | Federico FULIGNI | Kalex | 1'27.620 | 2.448 | 0.269 |
| 33 | 18 | Xavi CARDELUS | Kalex | 1'30.208 | 5.036 | 2.588 |
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