British Grand Prix Silverstone Moto2 Warm Up: Schrotter dominates Gardner in the final seconds!

This twelfth round of the Moto2 championship at Silverstone promises to be a possible break in the championship for Francis Bagnaia. The Italian is in fact in pole position while his rival for the title Oliveira will start from beyond twentieth place with a KTM that is not really at ease. The surprise and the underdog will be Remy gardner who will want to write the last letters of nobility of a Mistral610 which will disappear at Tech3 at the end of the year. The other star will be the weather, with rain so feared that the meeting times were disrupted...

Before jumping into the fray, 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	2'08.153 Francesco Bagnaia
Warm Up	2'07.035 Takaaki Nakagami
Course	Nakagami, Pasini, Morbidelli
All time lap record	2'06.345 Sam Lowes 2015

 

And this famous rain appeared at the start of the Moto3 warm-up session. The Moto2 therefore discovered a wet track at 13°5 and ambient air at barely 14°. Which does not discourage a seasoned audience!

In 2'24.339 Sam Lowes shows that a KTM can still walk on this track by signing the first reference. Joe Roberts shows that an NTS in the rain is not bad either since he is fifth, behind a Kent found, a Gardner which confirms, as Schrotter, second.

Quarterly only takes the track for the last five minutes. In 2'23.648, Schrotter takes orders at Lowes while things are less bad for Olive tree, seventh as for the official KTMs since Binder knock on the door of the top 5. Tuuli impresses and emerges fourth. Quarterly is thirteenth.

In 2'22.898, Gardner takes the lead and promises for the race. He is the only one under the 2'23 lap mark with the Mistral610. Olive tree is fourth in front bagnaia. We won't stop there since the Tech3 pilot is being grilled by Schrotter under the checkered flag. Lowes, bagnaia et Olive tree follow, Quaratararo ninth.

British Grand Prix Silverstone Moto2 Warm Up: Chronos

1	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Kalex	2'22.814
2	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	2'22.898	0.084	0.084
3	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	2'22.920	0.106	0.022
4	22	Sam LOWES	KTM	2'23.083	0.269	0.163
5	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	2'23.190	0.376	0.107
6	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	2'23.240	0.426	0.050
7	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	Speed ​​Up	2'23.253	0.439	0.013
8	77	Dominique AEGERTER	KTM	2'23.428	0.614	0.175
9	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	2'23.698	0.884	0.270
10	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	2'23.759	0.945	0.061
11	52	Danny Kent	Speed ​​Up	2'23.851	1.037	0.092
12	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	2'23.855	1.041	0.004
13	65	Josh OWENS	Kalex	2'23.943	1.129	0.088
14	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Kalex	2'24.153	1.339	0.210
15	62	Stefano MANZI	Suter	2'24.257	1.443	0.104
16	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	2'24.406	1.592	0.149
17	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	2'24.571	1.757	0.165
18	27	Iker LECUONA	KTM	2'24.582	1.768	0.011
19	66	Niki TUULI	Kalex	2'24.809	1.995	0.227
20	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	2'25.582	2.768	0.773
21	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	2'26.014	3.200	0.432
22	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	2'26.208	3.394	0.194
23	21	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	2'26.348	3.534	0.140
24	4	Steven ODENDAAL	NTS	2'26.457	3.643	0.109
25	16	Joe ROBERTS	NTS	2'26.684	3.870	0.227
26	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	2'27.096	4.282	0.412
27	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	Tech 3	2'27.483	4.669	0.387
28	95	Jules DANILO	Kalex	2'27.720	4.906	0.237
29	18	Xavi CARDELUS	Kalex	2'28.074	5.260	0.354
30	40	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Kalex	2'28.420	5.606	0.346
31	13	Roman FENATI	Kalex	2'28.896	6.082	0.476
32	24	Simone COURSES	Kalex	2'29.045	6.231	0.149
33	55	Alejandro MEDINA	Kalex	2'29.353	6.539	0.30