Moto2 Portimao Qualifying: Remy Gardner takes the lead ahead of Luca Marini

Ideal conditions in the Algarve on the Portimao track in Portugal where the sun came out for the weekend as the last event of the 2020 Moto2 season took place.

A season where nothing is yet decided as to who will be titled world champion. The game is not over, there are still four drivers who can claim the world crown: Enea Bastianini who is the leader of this ranking with 194 points to his name. Sam Lowes, the British who is second and who has 180 points. Let us recall in passing that the driver Marc VDS is physically affected, the latter having fallen during the last GP in Valencia and having injured his right wrist. It looks complicated even if we know that the latter is tough. Finally, among this ranking to conquer the title, we find the two teammates of the VR46, Luca Marini who is third with 176 points and Marco Bezzecchi which mathematically can still dream of the Holy Grail with its 171 points.

This morning, during FP3 it was Remy gardner who was the fastest, ahead of Enea Bastianini et Marcos Ramirez. Sam Lowes fell but still managed to qualify painfully for Q2. Luca marini finished fourth in the session and Marco Bezzecchi 15e.

This qualifying session will take place in time: a fifteen-minute Q1 session where four drivers will be selected to fight with the fourteen drivers (Remy Gardner, Hector Garzo, Marcos Ramirez, Luca Marini, Aron Canet, Augusto Fernandez, Enea Bastianini, Xavi Virgo, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Sam Lowes, Joe Roberts, Tetsuta Nagashima, Lorenzo Baldassari and Jorge Navarro) who are already qualified this morning for Q2.

 

Before that she recalls the facts…

 

Moto2™ Portimao	2020
FIM CEV record	1'45.602 Tetsuta Nagashima (2016 in 600cc)
FP1	1'43.740 Marcos Ramirez
FP2	1'42.941 Luca Marini
FP3	1'42.728 Remy Gardner
Q1	1'43.032 Marco Bezzecchi
Q2	1'42.592s Remy Gardner
Warm Up
Course
All time lap record	1'42.592 Remy Gardner

Q1 session:

Open up places himself at the forefront in 1.43.370s in front Schrotter and Bendsneyder. Courses is the 4th fastest driver. Martin regains control in 1.43.336s in front Bulega, Bezzecchi, Schrotter.

There is less left in this 15min session and ahead Martin holds on in 1.43.336s. Bezzecchi, Bulega and Manzi are the three other drivers who for the moment would join Q2.

Bezzecchi regains control in 1.43.032s. Bendsneyder, Martin and Bulega are the 4 drafted drivers who will go to Q2.

 

Q2 session: 

Fall of Canet..A miracle happened..

It is Fernandez who takes provisional pole in 1.43.216s ahead Bulega and Gardner.

Marini took it in turn in 1.43.027s. Virgo, Martin, Di Giannantonio, Bulega, Lowes, Fernandez, Garzo, Bezzecchi et Ramirez bring up the rear of the topo10

Lowes pulls away and takes provisional pole in 1.42.759s in front Fernandez and Marini. Bastianini ranks 14th.

4 minutes from the finish, Lowes stand firm in front Marini and Fernandez. Bulega and Garzo make up the top5.

Marini 2 minutes from the finish is on the attack and takes provisional pole in 1.42.710s. Di Giannantonio achieves the 2nd best time in 1.42.747s. Lowes is 3th, Martin is 4th and Open up 5e.

Gardner came to recover pole position in 1.45.592s. Marini, Di Giannantonio, Lowes and Martin bring up the rear of the top5. Bezzecchi is 15th, bastianini takes 4th position in the last second.

End of session and it's Gardner who takes pole in front Marini, Di Giannantonio, Bastianini and Lowes. 

Full ranking: