#SanMarinoGP Moto2 Warm Up: Baldassarri in the rain and 12 falls in fifteen minutes

For this final dress rehearsal, the Moto2 protagonists were picked up cold when they woke up on the banks of the Adriatic. The fault was a rain which completely changed the appearance of a Misano route, for the first time approached with a soggy bitumen. And cooled to a little over 18°. The previous two days of competition were just a memory. Everything had to be redone.

To remember what the situation was before this Sunday, here is a reminder of the facts in table.

 

#SanMarinoGP Moto2™	2016	2017
FP1	1'38.307 Takaaki Nakagami	1'38.205 Alex Marquez
FP2	1'37.737 Takaaki Nakagami	1'38.061 Mattia Pasini
FP3	1'37.908 Takaaki Nakagami	1'37.941 Franco Morbidelli
Qualification	1'37.436 Johann Zarco	1'37.390 Mattia Pasini
Warm Up	1'37.749 Takaaki Nakagami
Course	Baldassarri, Rins, Nakagami
All time lap record	1'36.754 Zarco 2015

 

At 32 years, Pasini had signed his fourth pole position in a row this season the day before. But the track that awaited him this morning was very different from the one that allowed him to achieve this great performance. If the downpour had stopped, it left behind a wet track strewn with debris from the Moto3 battle that had barely ended and was particularly painful because it was marked by numerous falls.

Despite this warning, Lüthi fell at turn 4, fortunately without seriousness. Courses also got into it at turn 1 and Alex De Angelis at turn 6. So many experienced drivers. The irony was that at this stage of the exercise, it was the Swiss Lüthi who leads the bats in 1'57.769.

Gardner et Olive tree took over from the driver of a CarXpert team which will ride KTM in 2018.  Pasini had a scare at turn 15. Baldassari was in the lead while Virgin fell at turn 4. Joe Roberts surprised with the second beat and Alex DeAngelis had his second morning accident, but at turn 1 this time.

Isaac Viñales et Edgar Pons also fell into this turn one, a few seconds apart.

Enough to worry about the grip of the track for the rest of the events in these conditions. As many adventures as Gardner avoided to take the lead with a time of 1'56.002 on his Mistral 610. This before falling at turn 8! Syahrin wrote his name on this long list of casualties joined by Axel Pons at turn 16 and NAVARRO at turn 1.

bagnaia closed this massacre at turn 4. The exercise amounted to Baldassarri in 1'54.372 ahead Roberts et Marini. Quarterly was eighteenth.

#SanMarinoGP Moto2 Warm Up: Chronos

1	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'54.372
2	20	Joe ROBERTS	Kalex	1'55.211	0.839	0.839
3	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'55.595	1.223	0.384
4	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'55.669	1.297	0.074
5	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'56.002	1.630	0.333
6	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'56.265	1.893	0.263
7	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'56.369	1.997	0.104
8	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'56.607	2.235	0.238
9	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'56.640	2.268	0.033
10	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'56.791	2.419	0.151
11	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'56.862	2.490	0.071
12	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'57.159	2.787	0.297
13	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'57.558	3.186	0.399
14	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'57.659	3.287	0.101
15	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'57.706	3.334	0.047
16	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	1'57.769	3.397	0.063
17	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'57.858	3.486	0.089
18	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'58.049	3.677	0.191
19	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'58.150	3.778	0.101
20	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'58.716	4.344	0.566
21	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'58.959	4.587	0.243
22	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'58.985	4.613	0.026
23	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'59.809	5.437	0.824
24	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	2'00.076	5.704	0.267
25	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	2'00.590	6.218	0.514
26	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	2'00.843	6.471	0.253
27	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	2'01.047	6.675	0.204
28	22	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	2'01.129	6.757	0.082
29	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	2'01.778	7.406	0.649
30	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	2'01.799	7.427	0.021
31	15	Alex DE ANGELIS	Suter	2'01.986	7.614	0.187
32	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	2'02.056	7.684	0.070