#ItalianGP Moto2 FP3: Pasini opens the throttle wide

Despite a broken foot, Alex Marquez finished fourth at the last meeting in France and for the second time this season. Last year, at Mugello, he finished the race in 12th place from 15th on the grid and it was his best result on this track in Moto2. But after having achieved the best time in the field yesterday, Friday, the brother of whom you know to display his ambitions. Including that of beating his teammate and championship leader Morbidely his home.

A situation explained below and which announces a duel between the drivers of a Marc VDS team still undefeated since the start of the season:

 

#ItalianGP Mugello Moto2	2016	2017
FP1	1'53.592 Johann Zarco	1'52.568 Franco Morbidelli
FP2	1'52.944 Johann Zarco	1'52.229 Alex Marquez
FP3	1'52.382 Sam Lowes
Qualification	1'51.965 Sam Lowes
Warm up	1'52.458 Takaaki Nakagami
Race 1	Lowes, Luthi, Nakagami
Race 2	Zarco, Baldassarri, Lowes (see here)
All time lap record	1'51.514 Sam Lowes 2015

 

In 1'52.241, Morbidely showed that this end of the morning would be that of the counterattack. The winner of four out of five Grands Prix contested this season was followed by Courses and Nakagami. During this time, agitated returning to the stand with a Suter released water vapor.

An incident that did not distract Courses who, continuing his effort with the SpeedUp, achieved a 1'52.177 which was the best performance in the category at Mugello since the start of the meeting. A performance imitated less than twenty minutes from the end of the exercise by Nakagami in 1'52.155. The top 10 was then closed by Lüthi at Tech3 Remy gardner while Quarterly remained in the good group with a thirteenth position.

A hierarchy frozen before the start of the last five minutes which brought the stage out of its torpor. Pasini woke everyone up with a 1'52.011 which was only the starter for a more intimidating 1'51.963. We left it there and the ItalTrans driver can boast before the lunch break of asserting himself with the only time below 1'52 per lap.

Nakagami follows and Courses closes the leading trio to the Marc VDS duo led by Morbidely before Alex Marquez. Xavier Vierge is a good sixth with the Mistral610 and Olive tree places his KTM eighth. Lüthi complete the top 10 bagnaia and the first Suter is thirteenth with agitated. Quarterly slips to seventeenth position.

#ItalianGP Moto2 FP3: Chronos

1	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'51.963
2	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'52.155	0.192	0.192
3	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'52.177	0.214	0.022
4	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'52.235	0.272	0.058
5	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'52.477	0.514	0.242
6	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'52.511	0.548	0.034
7	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'52.515	0.552	0.004
8	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'52.537	0.574	0.022
9	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'52.567	0.604	0.030
10	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	1'52.673	0.710	0.106
11	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'52.734	0.771	0.061
12	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'52.809	0.846	0.075
13	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'52.832	0.869	0.023
14	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'52.876	0.913	0.044
15	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'52.896	0.933	0.020
16	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Suter	1'52.981	1.018	0.085
17	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'53.052	1.089	0.071
18	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'53.168	1.205	0.116
19	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'53.179	1.216	0.011
20	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	Kalex	1'53.181	1.218	0.002
21	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'53.200	1.237	0.019
22	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'53.268	1.305	0.068
23	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'53.454	1.491	0.186
24	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'53.523	1.560	0.069
25	52	Danny Kent	Kalex	1'53.620	1.657	0.097
26	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'53.735	1.772	0.115
27	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'53.775	1.812	0.040
28	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'53.838	1.875	0.063
29	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'53.964	2.001	0.126
30	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'54.206	2.243	0.242
31	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'54.465	2.502	0.259
32	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'54.561	2.598	0.096
33	22	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	1'55.503	3.540	0.942