#JapaneseGP Moto2 FP1: Alex Marquez does as well as his brother

The rain present for Moto3 and MotoGP did not let go of Moto2 on this morning of a Japanese Grand Prix launching the overseas campaign of the calendar, which will also continue with Malaysia and Australia. To warm up the category had attracted attention with the announcements of Granado at Forward and Danilo at SAG. It will be recalled that in this championship, it is Morbidelli who leads the way ahead of Lüthi, and for 21 points.

Since we are talking about inventory, here is the essential information table:

#JapaneseGP Moto2™	2016	2017
FP1	1'51.816 Takaaki Nakagami
FP2	1'50.625 Tom Lüthi
FP3	1'50.373 Tom Lüthi
Qualification	1'49.961 Johann Zarco
Warm Up	1'50.695 Tom Lüthi
Course	Lüthi, Zarco, Morbidelli (see here)
All time lap record	1'49.961 Johann Zarco 2016

 

The exercise began with the falls of Mizuno and Fernandez. Syahrin took the lead with a time of 2'06.862 beforeAlex Marquez did not take the lead, thus showing that he was in good shape.  Lüthi et Morbidely were third and fourth. As for Manzi, it showed that between a great performance and a nice fall, the line was thin…

Morbidely raised the tone at the end of the first quarter of an hour with a performance in 2'06.435, exactly when his boss in the box Bartholomew announced that caution should be exercised at the start of Motegi...

Absent from the debates was a Pasini, simply last while NAVARRO et Simeon were enjoying great heat. Quarterly was 22nd.

At the start of the last quarter of an hour, Syahrin took back the lead in 2'06.320 ahead Morbidely, Alex Marquez, Lüthi and the local Nakagami. Olive tree was sixth for KTM. The leading Malaysian then fell at turn 3 but was able to bring his bike back to the pits nine minutes from the checkered flag.

Five minutes from time, Lüthi came out of his reserve by imposing a 2'05.925 on the rest of the field, the first time under 2'06 of the session. A performance that then improved Alex Marquez by four tenths. Andrea Locatelli fell at turn eleven when he was ninth.

The brother of whom you know and winner in Japan in 2014 with a Moto3 finished the work in the lead in front Lüthi et Syahrin. bagnaia et Morbidely completed the top 5. agitated, with Suter leading the rest of the field ahead of Cortese, Manzi, Oliveira and Navarro closing out the top 10.

Quarterly is twenty-seventh and the first Mistral610 is sixteenth with Gardner.

#JapaneseGP Moto2 FP1: Chronos

1	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	2'05.460
2	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	2'05.925	0.465	0.465
3	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	2'06.212	0.752	0.287
4	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	2'06.426	0.966	0.214
5	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	2'06.435	0.975	0.009
6	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	2'06.654	1.194	0.219
7	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	2'06.694	1.234	0.040
8	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	2'06.808	1.348	0.114
9	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	2'06.982	1.522	0.174
10	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	2'07.021	1.561	0.039
11	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	2'07.076	1.616	0.055
12	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	2'07.408	1.948	0.332
13	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	2'07.612	2.152	0.204
14	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	2'07.678	2.218	0.066
15	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	2'07.750	2.290	0.072
16	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	2'07.791	2.331	0.041
17	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	2'07.798	2.338	0.007
18	33	Ikuhiro ENOKIDO	Kalex	2'07.800	2.340	0.002
19	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	2'07.936	2.476	0.136
20	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	2'08.376	2.916	0.440
21	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	2'08.408	2.948	0.032
22	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	2'08.474	3.014	0.066
23	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	2'08.636	3.176	0.162
24	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	2'08.843	3.383	0.207
25	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Suter	2'08.851	3.391	0.008
26	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	2'08.960	3.500	0.109
27	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	2'08.963	3.503	0.003
28	34	Ryo MIZUNO	Kalex	2'09.061	3.601	0.098
29	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	2'09.067	3.607	0.006
30	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	2'09.536	4.076	0.469
31	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	2'09.836	4.376	0.300
32	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	2'09.885	4.425	0.049
33	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	2'11.744	6.284	1.859