Silverstone Moto2 British Grand Prix Qualifying: Bagnaia snatches pole from Gardner's Mistral610!

The weather was changeable at Silverstone and the Moto2 riders understood this well while watching the long, twisty qualifying session of the MotoGP. To win the bet, you will have to play with the elements in this category which discovers a track drying at high speed under threatening clouds ready to release its drops to shake up the situation... Who will have been the smartest and the most daring?

Before answering this question, here is the table summarizing the chronometric facts:

 

Silverstone Moto2™	2017	2018
FP1	2'08.191 Dominique Aegerter	2'08.385 Marcel Schrotter
FP2	2'07.491 Alex Marquez	2'10.452 Alex Marquez
FP3	2'06.996 Alex Marquez	2'08.182 Marcel Schrotter
Qualification	2'06.572 Mattia Pasini
Warm Up	2'07.035 Takaaki Nakagami
Course	Nakagami, Pasini, Morbidelli
All time lap record	2'06.345 Sam Lowes 2015

 

Baldassarri begins by getting a scare at turn 12 while his compatriot Pasini jumps into the fray with a 2'14.490 as a reference. Marquez which has agitated on the KTM follow. Baldassarri et bagnaia close the top 5.  Locatelli, fourth and Manzi sixth invite themselves to the forefront before Marini et Lowes do not dislodge them. The track continues to dry out and the times drop as the minutes tick by.

The proof: Alex Marquez takes the lead in 2'12.976 at the end of the first quarter of an hour. The brother of whom you know even does a 2'11.009 and he is followed by a Virgin to the convalescent hand, Sam Lowes et Gardner on Tech3.

The last fifteen minutes are attacked with a lecuona on provisional pole on a KTM, ahead Schrotter, Pasini, Marquez et Mir. Courses fall at turn 12. agitated is sixth and Lowes tenth, that is to say as many KTM private riders ahead of the Mattighofen officials who definitely cannot do it. Olive tree is only sixteenth.

In 2'10.048, Schrotter hurts a competition pushed back by more than four tenths in one go. Lowes counterattack and go second but still more than two tenths behind.

Quarterly is thirteenth but in good company since just behind the championship leader bagnaia. In 2'09.827, Sam Lowes thrills the audience by taking control of the session. But his teammate lecuona did better in 2'09.480. Roberts and the NTS amaze by coming fourth.

The last minutes offer an incessant change of a hierarchy which ends up designating bagnaia as its leader. He is ahead of an explosive Gardner on the Mistral 610, Alex Marquez, Schrotter Marini et Quarterly. lecuona et Lowes are eighth and ninth but first KTM. Olive tree is a disappointing 23rd.

British Grand Prix Silverstone Moto2 Qualifying: Chronos

1	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	2'08.153
2	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	2'08.347	0.194	0.194
3	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	2'08.411	0.258	0.064
4	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Kalex	2'08.442	0.289	0.031
5	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	2'08.643	0.490	0.201
6	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	Speed ​​Up	2'08.756	0.603	0.113
7	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	2'08.772	0.619	0.016
8	27	Iker LECUONA	KTM	2'08.774	0.621	0.002
9	22	Sam LOWES	KTM	2'08.785	0.632	0.011
10	13	Roman FENATI	Kalex	2'08.908	0.755	0.123
11	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Kalex	2'08.921	0.768	0.013
12	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	2'08.976	0.823	0.055
13	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	2'09.007	0.854	0.031
14	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	2'09.041	0.888	0.034
15	40	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Kalex	2'09.129	0.976	0.088
16	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	2'09.252	1.099	0.123
17	77	Dominique AEGERTER	KTM	2'09.301	1.148	0.049
18	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	Tech 3	2'09.323	1.170	0.022
19	66	Niki TUULI	Kalex	2'09.578	1.425	0.255
20	16	Joe ROBERTS	NTS	2'09.582	1.429	0.004
21	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	2'09.706	1.553	0.124
22	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	2'09.838	1.685	0.132
23	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	2'09.968	1.815	0.130
24	62	Stefano MANZI	Suter	2'09.994	1.841	0.026
25	4	Steven ODENDAAL	NTS	2'10.112	1.959	0.118
26	52	Danny Kent	Speed ​​Up	2'10.285	2.132	0.173
27	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	2'10.888	2.735	0.603
28	65	Josh OWENS	Kalex	2'11.033	2.880	0.145
29	95	Jules DANILO	Kalex	2'11.522	3.369	0.489
30	21	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	2'12.355	4.202	0.833
31	55	Alejandro MEDINA	Kalex	2'12.847	4.694	0.492
32	24	Simone COURSES	Kalex	2'13.871	5.718	1.024
33	18	Xavi CARDELUS	Kalex	2'14.055	5.902	0.184