Moto2 Le Mans France Warm Up: Sam Lowes plays the spoilsport

For the third time this season, American Joe Roberts will start from pole position this season. That of the French Grand Prix will have been won by a hard fight since it only took 87 thousandths to decide between the Tennor American Racing driver of Sam Lowes. It was the Australian Remy Gardner who completed the first row in the very last seconds of this very competitive session…

On the second row of the starting grid of Moto2 French Grand Prix we will find Jorge Martín who managed to save the furniture despite a fall mid-session, with his two Italian compatriots and teammates from Sky Racing Team VR46 at his side, Marco Bezzecchi et Luca marini. The current leader of the Championship managed to achieve a very good performance by obtaining the sixth time despite his violent fall the day before.

In his wake, the two representatives of the Petronas Sprinta Racing team, Xavi Verge et Jake Dixon ranked seventh and eighth respectively. Enea Bastianini, survivor of Q1 a few minutes earlier with the best time of the session, will complete the third row. It is another Italian pilot in the person of Stefano manzi which will complete the Top 10 at the end of these two qualifying sessions.

This Sunday is race day. Moto2, exceptionally, will take place at the end of the meeting, i.e. after MotoGP. To get in condition, here is the Warm Up, like the table which summarizes the facts experienced so far...

Moto2™ Le Mans	2019	2020
FP1	1'36.894 Andrea Locatelli	1'51.279 Kasma Daniel
FP2	1'36.551 Brad Binder	1'37.400 Jorge Martin
FP3	1'40.581 Steven Odendaal	1'36.490 Joe Roberts
Q1	1'49.102 Thomas Lüthi	1'36.731 Enea Bastianini
Q2	1'49.055 Jorge Navarro	1'36.256 Joe Roberts
Warm Up	1'37.796 Remy Gardner	1'36.859s Sam Lowes
Course	Marquez, Navarro, Fernandez
All time lap record	1'36.188 Francesco Bagnaia 2018

Weekend info:

Lorenzo Baldassari will join the Forward MV Agusta team for 2021.

It's gone for 20min

For memory, Jorge Navarro will have to complete two long lapses during the race following the fall of George Martin here.

It is bastianini which signs the reference time in 1.37.871s. He is ahead Lowes and Bezzecchi.

kick of contraction in turn 3. Gardner his teammate also makes a mistake in turn 8

kick of Canet in turn 6 and Biesiekirski makes a mistake in the same place but stays on its wheels.

Nagashima also goes to the mat in turn 3.

Lowes takes control 3 minutes from the end of the session with a time of 1.37.322s. Fernandez, Bezzecchi, Dixon and Bastianini, make up the top5.

kick of Schrotter in turn 8

Announcement made that Stefano manzi is moving to PONS next year for the 2021 season. This is therefore an exchange with Lorenzo Baldassari. 

End of session who sees Lowes (1.36.859s) finish at the forefront in front Fernandez, Bastianini, Bezzecchi and Luthi.

Full results: