Jerez Moto2 FP3: Baldassarri at the record and Oliveira in MotoGP!

Moto2 begins its second day in Jerez in the same beautiful weather conditions that had delighted it the day before. It is therefore following a duel in the sun between bagnaia, leader of the championship, and Alex Marquez, local to the stage and winner on this route last year, which we will attend. In theory at least, because the challengers are capable of thwarting this well-crafted scenario. Starting with the riders equipped with KTM who learned this morning that a new member was going to join the clan: Tech3...

Before launching into hostilities, here is a reminder of the situation…

 

Jerez Moto2™	2017	2018
FP1	1'58.299 Alex Marquez	1'42.836 Francesco Bagnaia
FP2	1'43.121 Alex Marquez	1'42.537 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

 

22° in the air, 28° on the track, Jerez is the place to be this morning when you are a biker! In 1'44.899, Hector Barbera remembers everyone well by establishing the first reference of this last session before qualifying. Alex Marquez immediately responds to him in 1'44.404 and tells him that he will not share the status of local hero in front of his compatriots.

Odendal falls at turn 6 with his NTS chassis while he is twelfth. The time that Schrotter ranks second. A place that then takes Brad Binder, KTM official. However, it's on his teammate Olive tree that attention is suddenly focused with this official announcement which makes him the first Portuguese rider in MotoGP!

At the start of the last quarter of an hour, NAVARRO surprises his world with a 1'42.285 which propels him into the lead in front Sam Lowes which KTM is not thinking about for the future. As it is the time for surprises, Baldassarri offers a 1'42.206 which puts him in control of the session. Brad Binder as for him, pushes his broken down KTM to the pit… He is fifth behind Alex Marquez.

fenati, Pasini, Schrotter, bagnaia et Locatelli close the top 10 as the last five minutes loom. Olive tree is only thirteenth, just ahead Quarterly. Would he already have the lead in MotoGP? Alex Marquez commits his first mistake of the weekend by crashing at turn 6.

Baldassarri raises the tone and achieves the first time under 1'42 with a 1'41.958 which gives him the new track record in the category! He even improved it straight away to 1'41.890... NAVARRO, Pasini et Lowes follow. Alex Marquez is fifth ahead Brad Binder. bagnaia is only ninth, Olive tree twelfth, fenati good seventh and Quarterly sixteenth.

Jerez Moto2 FP3: Chronos

1	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'41.890
2	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'42.285	0.395	0.395
3	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'42.310	0.420	0.025
4	22	Sam LOWES	KTM	1'42.365	0.475	0.055
5	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'42.404	0.514	0.039
6	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'42.414	0.524	0.010
7	13	Roman FENATI	Kalex	1'42.446	0.556	0.032
8	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Kalex	1'42.561	0.671	0.115
9	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'42.570	0.680	0.009
10	52	Danny Kent	Speed ​​Up	1'42.687	0.797	0.117
11	27	Iker LECUONA	KTM	1'42.797	0.907	0.110
12	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'42.798	0.908	0.001
13	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'42.806	0.916	0.008
14	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'42.832	0.942	0.026
15	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Kalex	1'42.833	0.943	0.001
16	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	Speed ​​Up	1'42.860	0.970	0.027
17	40	Hector BARBERA	Kalex	1'42.899	1.009	0.039
18	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'42.958	1.068	0.059
19	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'43.059	1.169	0.101
20	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	Tech 3	1'43.159	1.269	0.100
21	24	Simone COURSES	Kalex	1'43.172	1.282	0.013
22	4	Steven ODENDAAL	NTS	1'43.201	1.311	0.029
23	36	Joan Mir	Kalex	1'43.206	1.316	0.005
24	16	Joe ROBERTS	NTS	1'43.235	1.345	0.029
25	62	Stefano MANZI	Suter	1'43.300	1.410	0.065
26	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'43.384	1.494	0.084
27	51	Eric GRANADO	Suter	1'43.536	1.646	0.152
28	3	Lukas TULOVIC	KTM	1'43.850	1.960	0.314
29	18	Xavi CARDELUS	Kalex	1'44.036	2.146	0.186
30	14	Hector GARZO	Tech 3	1'44.353	2.463	0.317
31	95	Jules DANILO	Kalex	1'44.652	2.762	0.299
32	21	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	1'44.712	2.822	0.060
33	63	Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN	Kalex	1'44.877	2.987	0.165