Jerez Moto2 FP1: Bagnaia as boss

The Moto2s are arriving in Europe for a long campaign which begins this weekend on the selective track of Jerez. A meeting which promises to be thrilling since the tenors of a championship which began three Grands Prix ago had been the entertainers of the previous edition of the Spanish Grand Prix. The podium was in fact then composed of Alex Márquez, bagnaia and Miguel Olive tree... A trio of choices in which a fourth thief will want to get involved in the person of Joan Mir.

But before launching into the battle, here is the table which puts our ideas in place…

 

Jerez Moto2™	2017	2018
FP1	1'58.299 Alex Marquez
FP2	1'43.121 Alex Marquez
FP3	1'42.434 Alex Marquez
Qualification	1'42.080 Alex Marquez
Warm Up	1'42.527 Franco Morbidelli
Course	Marquez, Bagnaia, Oliveira
All time lap record	1'42.080 Alex Marquez 2017

 

The sky is barely cloudy and the temperatures are in unison, both in the air and on the track, when the protagonists enter the arena. 18°, a redone bitumen, everything is there for a great morning of motorcycling. A celebration that so much Dominique Aegerter which Remy gardner will watch from their beds in pain after being injured in training. The Kiefer team driver and the Tech3 driver are in fact withdrawn. Lukas Tulovic et Hector Héctor Garzò replace them respectively.

The first salvo reveals an astonishing hierarchy with a Iker Lecuona in spirit on his KTM which signs a 1'43.718. The teammate of Sam Lowes ahead Nagashima et Alex Marquez. At the end of the first quarter of an hour, bagnaia takes second place, but still two tenths behind the new leader who remains on the momentum of his excellent fifth place acquired in Austin. His best ranking after 22 Grands Prix completed.

Alex Marquez et Sam Lowes raise their voice and take the chase into their own hands, without dispossessing the Spaniard of control of the session who pushed his advantage to 1'43.242.

Things will thus remain frozen until the start of the last part of the exercise where Baldassarri joins the leading trio. In 1'43.019, Sam Lowes finally manages to take control of his young teammate while taking the place of leader. The Swiss Innovative Investors team therefore takes the lion's share and offers KTM an interesting double. Not bad since, during this time, Olive tree is only thirteenth with the official machine…

Stung, the Portuguese attacked and achieved a 1'43.208 which placed him between the two drivers of the Swiss team, as the last five minutes loomed. A final rush that launches bagnaia who took the lead with the first time below 1'43 per lap. Mir also works hard and moves up to fourth, in front lecuona et Alex Marquez.

Bagnaia, under full sail, signs a 1'42.836 which will not be disputed. Lowes, Fenati, Marquez and Oliveira follow then Mir, Lecuona and Baldassarri. Navarro and Schrotter close the top 10 to Brad Binder. Quartararo is 23rd, Danilo 29th.

Jerez Moto2 FP1: Chronos

1	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'42.836
2	22	Sam LOWES	KTM	1'43.019	0.183	0.183
3	13	Roman FENATI	Kalex	1'43.116	0.280	0.097
4	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'43.186	0.350	0.070
5	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'43.208	0.372	0.022
6	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	1'43.237	0.401	0.029
7	27	Iker LECUONA	KTM	1'43.242	0.406	0.005
8	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'43.258	0.422	0.016
9	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'43.279	0.443	0.021
10	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'43.327	0.491	0.048
11	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'43.444	0.608	0.117
12	52	Danny Kent	Speed ​​Up	1'43.502	0.666	0.058
13	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'43.570	0.734	0.068
14	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Kalex	1'43.672	0.836	0.102
15	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	Tech 3	1'43.693	0.857	0.021
16	4	Steven ODENDAAL	NTS	1'43.712	0.876	0.019
17	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'43.723	0.887	0.011
18	24	Simone COURSES	Kalex	1'43.762	0.926	0.039
19	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'43.846	1.010	0.084
20	62	Stefano MANZI	Suter	1'43.866	1.030	0.020
21	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'43.871	1.035	0.005
22	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	Speed ​​Up	1'43.881	1.045	0.010
23	40	Hector BARBERA	Kalex	1'44.035	1.199	0.154
24	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'44.083	1.247	0.048
25	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Kalex	1'44.171	1.335	0.088
26	51	Eric GRANADO	Suter	1'44.414	1.578	0.243
27	16	Joe ROBERTS	NTS	1'44.767	1.931	0.353
28	3	Lukas TULOVIC	KTM	1'44.950	2.114	0.183
29	95	Jules DANILO	Kalex	1'45.666	2.830	0.716
30	18	Xavi CARDELUS	Kalex	1'45.896	3.060	0.230
31	14	Hector GARZO	Tech 3	1'45.990	3.154	0.094
32	21	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	1'46.467	3.631	0.477
33	63	Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN	Kalex	1'46.509	3.673	0.042

 

 

 

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