Aragon Grand Prix, Moto2, FP3: Alex Marquez is also comfortable.

It was under radiant sunshine that this Moto2 Aragon Grand Prix began on Friday, which announced a duel between Schrotter et bagnaia. The gaps are nevertheless tiny and the KTMs have not said their last word against the Kalex while SpeedUp and its commando Quarterly will play spoilsport. Although we are still far from the Rabat track record set in 2015, last year's pole position time has already been beaten. proof of a constant fight which resumes this Saturday morning...

Before diving into the bath, here is the table that refreshes your memory…

Aragon Moto2™	2017	2018
FP1	2'09.869 Thomas Lüthi	1'53.570 Marcel Schrotter
FP2	1'54.439 Mattia Pasini	1'53.784 Francesco Bagnaia
FP3	1'54.200 Franco Morbidelli
Qualification	1'53.736 Miguel Oliveira
Warm Up	1'54.260 Franco Morbidelli
Course	Morbidelli, Pasini, Oliveira
All time lap record	1'52.232 Tito Rabat 2015

23° in the air, 30° on the track, the weather will not be a disruptive element this Saturday in Aragon. A beautiful weather that will not benefit Espargaro Pol in MotoGP because we learned before the release of the wild animals that the KTM official in MotoGP recovered from his fall during the FP3 with a broken left clavicle. End of game for him!

input, Schrotter signs a 1'53.373 which is the fastest performance of the weekend. NAVARRO, Locatelli, lecuona, bagnaia et Quarterly follow in this zone 1'53 per lap. Alex Marquez is the first driver to stay within 1'54. At the end of the first quarter of an hour, the brother of whom you know passes the milestone in 1'53.973 but remains seventh.

Brad Binder tumbles into the leading trio who then refuse him a Alex Marquez which takes its rhythm, like Quarterly which goes fifth.  Olive tree is only seventeenth and Mir fifteenth.

In 1'53.617, Quarterly climbs third. The Frenchman seems in great shape behind NAVARRO et Schrotter...

 

 

Mid-session, Pasini tickle Schrotter by 31 thousandths while his teammate Locatelli follows him in the leading trio.  Joe Roberts falls at turn 5 with his NTS. He was 24th. Andrea Locatelli falls after the same glazing.

The last five minutes begin when Luca Marini landed fourth even though, since Friday, he had had all the difficulty in the world to climb beyond fifteenth place. Manzi crash at turn 9. He was 26th.

In 1'53.319, Alex Marquez takes the lead in the run-up to the checkered flag. Olive tree enters the top 10. We will leave it there with a Quarterly seventh.

Aragon Grand Prix, Moto2, FP3: times

1	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'53.319
2	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Kalex	1'53.332	0.013	0.013
3	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'53.363	0.044	0.031
4	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'53.501	0.182	0.138
5	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'53.533	0.214	0.032
6	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'53.615	0.296	0.082
7	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	Speed ​​Up	1'53.617	0.298	0.002
8	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'53.698	0.379	0.081
9	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'53.768	0.449	0.070
10	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'53.818	0.499	0.050
11	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'53.833	0.514	0.015
12	40	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Kalex	1'53.864	0.545	0.031
13	27	Iker LECUONA	KTM	1'53.877	0.558	0.013
14	22	Sam LOWES	KTM	1'53.892	0.573	0.015
15	52	Danny Kent	Speed ​​Up	1'54.024	0.705	0.132
16	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'54.042	0.723	0.018
17	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'54.094	0.775	0.052
18	24	Simone COURSES	Kalex	1'54.110	0.791	0.016
19	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Kalex	1'54.111	0.792	0.001
20	77	Dominique AEGERTER	KTM	1'54.234	0.915	0.123
21	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	Tech 3	1'54.300	0.981	0.066
22	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	1'54.461	1.142	0.161
23	4	Steven ODENDAAL	NTS	1'54.479	1.160	0.018
24	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'54.571	1.252	0.092
25	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'54.658	1.339	0.087
26	66	Niki TUULI	Kalex	1'54.864	1.545	0.206
27	62	Stefano MANZI	Suter	1'54.873	1.554	0.009
28	16	Joe ROBERTS	NTS	1'54.883	1.564	0.010
29	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'54.935	1.616	0.052
30	12	Sheridan MORAIS	Kalex	1'55.793	2.474	0.858
31	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Suter	1'55.797	2.478	0.004
32	21	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	1'56.049	2.730	0.252
33	18	Xavi CARDELUS	Kalex	1'56.091	2.772	0.042
34	95	Jules DANILO	Kalex	1'56.348	3.029	0.257