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Moto2 Thailand Buriram FP3: Nicolò Bulega sets the best time of the session

by | Oct 5, 2019

Varying track conditions await the riders in the Moto2 category today for this third free practice session on the Buriram track in Thailand. Yesterday, it was Luca Marini who set the pace by finishing in the lead in both sessions combined. He held off his opponents, Tetsuta Nagashima and Somkiat Chantra, the local driver, who finished second and third respectively. Álex Márquez, the championship leader, finished the first day in fifth position. 

Buriram Moto2™ 2018 2019
FP1 1'37.757 Mattia Pasini 1'35.969 Tetsuta Nagashima (new record)
FP2

1'36.839 Mattia Pasini

 1'35.956 Luca Marini (new record)
FP3

1'36.670 Fabio Quartararo

 1'35.962 Nicolò Bulega
Q1

XXX
Q2

1'36.374 Lorenzo Baldassarri
warm up

1'36.649 Miguel Oliveira
Course Bagnaia, Marini, Oliveira
All time lap record

1'35.956 Luca Marini (2019)

It's 29,4 degrees in the air and 38,2 degrees on the track as the sun comes out again. The track now seems dry with the exception of turn 1 where the water seems to have difficulty draining.

The pilots will have 30 min.

It is Márquez who sets the reference time in 1.38.995s before Manzi et Lüthi. Fall of Pasini in turn 9.

Cardelus imitates him in turn 3.

Very quickly, the track dries, the lap times drop and it's Chantra, the local driver who takes the best in 1.36.726s before Marini et Marquez. Marina attack hard just like Gardner who will get the time of the Thai pilot, in 1.36.582s.

Márquez does the same and in turn recovers the best time in 1.36.423s. Gardner, Marini, Binder on the KTM and Nagashima form the top5.

kick of Tulovic in turn 5.

Japanese Nagashima, very impactful, takes the lead in the operations by setting a very good time in 1.36.156s. kick of Márquez into turn 7 and Dixon at the same location.

3 minutes from the end of the session, Marini goes on the offensive and takes the best time in 1.35.998s before Gardner et Chantra. But it moves and Open up in turn takes the best time in 1.35.962s before Martin et Gardner. kick of Fernandez and Locatelli in turn 3 and 5.

Open up closed the session having achieved the best time.

FP3 results:

Pos number Rider Bike Time Gap 1st Prev.
1 11 Nicolò BULEGA Kalex 1'35.962
2 88 Jorge MARTIN KTM 1'35.975 0.013 0.013
3 87 Remy GARDNER Kalex 1'36.056 0.094 0.081
4 35 Somkiat CHANTRA Kalex 1'36.087 0.125 0.031
5 12 Thomas LÜTHI Kalex 1'36.113 0.151 0.026
6 41 Brad BINDER KTM 1'36.117 0.155 0.004
7 97 Xavi VIRGIN Kalex 1'36.141 0.179 0.024
8 21 Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO Speed ​​Up 1'36.147 0.185 0.006
9 10 Luca MARINI Kalex 1'36.152 0.190 0.005
10 45 Tetsuit NAGASHIMA Kalex 1'36.156 0.194 0.004
11 40 Augusto FERNÁNDEZ Kalex 1'36.189 0.227 0.033
12 72 Marco BEZZECCHI KTM 1'36.247 0.285 0.058
13 5 Andrea LOCATELLI Kalex 1'36.293 0.331 0.046
14 27 Iker LECUONA KTM 1'36.297 0.335 0.004
15 73 Alex MÁRQUEZ Kalex 1'36.423 0.461 0.126
16 9 Jorge NAVARRO Speed ​​Up 1'36.439 0.477 0.016
17 23 Marcel SCHRÖTTER Kalex 1'36.583 0.621 0.144
18 64 Bo BENDSNEYDER NTS 1'36.583 0.621
19 2 Jesko RAFFIN NTS 1'36.597 0.635 0.014
20 16 Joe ROBERTS KTM 1'36.625 0.663 0.028
21 33 Enea BASTIANINI Kalex 1'36.666 0.704 0.041
22 7 Lorenzo BALDASSARRI Kalex 1'36.719 0.757 0.053
23 62 Stefano MANZI MV Agusta 1'36.744 0.782 0.025
24 77 Dominique AEGERTER MV Agusta 1'36.787 0.825 0.043
25 54 Matthias PASINI Kalex 1'36.934 0.972 0.147
26 22 Sam LOWES Kalex 1'37.027 1.065 0.093
27 65 Philipp ÖTTL KTM 1'37.145 1.183 0.118
28 20 Dimas EKKY PRATAMA Kalex 1'37.847 1.885 0.702
29 96 Jake DIXON KTM 1'38.247 2.285 0.400
30 18 Xavi CARDELUS KTM 1'38.337 2.375 0.090
31 47 Adam NORRODIN Kalex 1'38.422 2.460 0.085
32 3 Lukas TULOVIC KTM 1'38.786 2.824 0.364

 

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