Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull Ring Moto2 Warm-up: Öttl, the smartest!

Tetsuta Nagashima is the only one who was able steal from KTM the pleasure of being in pole position at the start of the Austrian Grand Prix, in this case with Brad Binder. However, there is nothing mean about this Japanese person and, on the contrary, appeared very friendly during the post-qualifying press conference…

Will he go the distance at race pace over 25 laps against the monster of will that is Brad Binder ?

The 20 minutes of this warmup will allow us to get a first idea, even if, in any case, with no less than 11 drivers in less than 3 tenths, everything remains open.

The sky is gray, the track is damp and the temperatures are 20° in and 22° on the ground.

Red Bull Ring Moto2™	2018	2019
FP1	1'30.441 Francesco Bagnaia	1'29.264 Augusto Fernández
FP2	1'43.344 Steven Odendaal	1'29.029 Brad Binder
FP3	1'38.377 Remy Gardner	1'28.811 Mattia Pasini
Q1	XXX	1'29.139 Iker Lecuona
Q2	1'29.409 Francesco Bagnaia	1'28.718 Tetsuta Nagashima
warm up	1'30.242 Marcel Schrötter	1'35.760 Philipp Öttl
Course	Bagnaia, Oliveira, Marini
All time lap record	1'28.811 Mattia Pasini (2019)

The Moto3 drivers, although the majority started on wet tires, showed that the Austrian surface remained tricky, particularly on the white line of turn #4.

As a result, despite the trajectories starting to dry out in places, their Moto2 colleagues all set off on wet tires.

In these delicate conditions, the championship leader, Álex Márquez (Kalex, Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS), as well as the pole sitter, Tetsuta Nagashima (Kalex, Onebox TKKR SAG Team), prefer to wait a little in their box, just like Enea Bastianini (Kalex, Italtrans Racing Team) et Marco Bezzecchi (KTM, Red Bull KTM Tech3)...

After 3 laps, a small shower unfortunately reappeared in certain turns while Fabio Di Giannantonio (Speed ​​Up, +Ego Speed ​​Up) leads the session in 1'38.742.

This does not prevent some, after having made their mark, from improving their times, like Andrea Locatelli (Kalex, Italtrans Racing Team) 5 minutes from the checkered flag.

In these delicate conditions, the experienced Tom Lüthi (Kalex, Dynavolt Intact GP) also did well and recorded a 1'38.220 before Fabio DiGiannantonio does not regain the leadership in 1'38.169.

The condition of the track improves noticeably in the last 2 minutes, which allows for numerous improvements, starting with that of Philipp Ottl (KTM, Red Bull KTM Tech3) who achieved the best time of the session after using rear slick tires.

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