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.
A rare crash for # Moto2 championship challenger @ThomasLUTHI 😯#SanMarinoGP pic.twitter.com/2a6RRmJW5k
- MotoGP @ 🏁 (@MotoGP) September 10, 2017
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.
Double crash for Viñales and Pons at turn 1! It's greasy out there! 💦 #RidersOK #SanMarinoGP pic.twitter.com/I6RCOsLDsL
- MotoGP @ 🏁 (@MotoGP) September 10, 2017
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 |
🏁 # Moto2 Warm-up
Last year's #SanMarinoGP race winner @7balda tops the times in the soggy morning session
Can he do it again? pic.twitter.com/GOyRBsJqVF
- MotoGP @ 🏁 (@MotoGP) September 10, 2017