A cold sun made a shy appearance this morning, for the first time this British weekend. Certainly, not enough to take a hit, but enough to try to speed up the drying a little of a track made wet by night rain and at 14° when the Moto2 sets off for this somewhat poorly warm-up appointed. Wasted effort; Huge patches of humidity remain despite the help of a very present wind.
Johann zarco, second in qualifying, tries a lap on wet tires before returning to the box and waiting. Whether in the rain or on slicks, the majority of the other drivers did the same before returning to the track a few minutes later. We then clocked 2'29, which is no longer that far from the 2'26.740 achieved by Sam Lowes in qualifying.
In these rather tricky conditions, Hervé Poncharal has the great satisfaction of seeing Isaac Vinales take the Mistral M610 to the top of the ranking, after its 7th place in qualifying yesterday, until the last second of the session, the moment when the inevitable Sam Lowes comes out of his box like hell to win in 2'16.695
The pleasure of the boss of Tech3 can however be reinforced by the 5th place of Xavi Virginie, just reconfirmed in the French structure alongside Remy Gardner.
Xavier Simeon appears at the 13th position, Johann zarco 2 places away, Robin Mulhauser 19th and alex rins 26th. Enough to relaunch the championship this afternoon...
| Pos | Pile | Country | Team | Motorcycle | Temps | deviations | ||
| 1 | Sam LOWES | GBR | Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 | Kalex | 2'16.695 | |||
| 2 | Isaac VIÑALES | SPA | Tech 3 Racing | Tech 3 | 2'18.507 | 1.812 | ||
| 3 | Frank MORBIDELLI | ITA | Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS | Kalex | 2'18.842 | 2.147 | ||
| 4 | Alex MARQUEZ | SPA | Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS | Kalex | 2'19.450 | 2.755 | ||
| 5 | Xavi VIRGIN | SPA | Tech 3 Racing | Tech 3 | 2'20.114 | 3.419 | ||
| 6 | Marcel SCHROTTER | GER | AGR Team | Kalex | 2'20.353 | 3.658 | ||
| 7 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | JPN | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | Kalex | 2'20.515 | 3.820 | ||
| 8 | Jonas Folger | GER | Dynavolt Intact GP | Kalex | 2'20.822 | 4.127 | ||
| 9 | Julian SIMON | SPA | QMMF Racing Team | Speed Up | 2'20.892 | 4.197 | ||
| 10 | Thomas LUTHI | SWI | Garage Plus Interwetten | Kalex | 2'21.046 | 4.351 | ||
| 11 | Hafiz Syahrin | MAL | Petronas Raceline Malaysia | Kalex | 2'21.664 | 4.969 | ||
| 12 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | ITA | Forward Team | Kalex | 2'21.741 | 5.046 | ||
| 13 | Xavier SIMEON | BEL | QMMF Racing Team | Speed Up | 2'21.941 | 5.246 | ||
| 14 | Edgar PONS | SPA | Pages Yellow HP 40 | Kalex | 2'22.011 | 5.316 | ||
| 15 | johann zarco | FRA | Ajo Motorsport | Kalex | 2'22.278 | 5.583 | ||
| 16 | Axel PONS | SPA | AGR Team | Kalex | 2'23.044 | 6.349 | ||
| 17 | Remy GARDNER | AUS | Moto2 Scuderia Racing pocket | Kalex | 2'23.308 | 6.613 | ||
| 18 | Danny Kent | GBR | Leopard Racing | Kalex | 2'23.454 | 6.759 | ||
| 19 | Robin MULHAUSER | SWI | CarXpert Interwetten | Kalex | 2'23.956 | 7.261 | ||
| 20 | Matthias PASINI | ITA | Italtrans Racing Team | Kalex | 2'24.158 | 7.463 | ||
| 21 | Simone COURSES | ITA | Speed Up Racing | Speed Up | 2'24.228 | 7.533 | ||
| 22 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | POR | Leopard Racing | Kalex | 2'25.426 | 8.731 | ||
| 23 | Iker LECUONA | SPA | CarXpert Interwetten | Kalex | 2'25.634 | 8.939 | ||
| 24 | Luca MARINI | ITA | Forward Team | Kalex | 2'25.680 | 8.985 | ||
| 25 | Sandro CORTESE | GER | Dynavolt Intact GP | Kalex | 2'26.052 | 9.357 | ||
| 26 | Alex Rins | SPA | Pages Yellow HP 40 | Kalex | 2'26.252 | 9.557 | ||
| 27 | Ratthapark WILAIROT | THA | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | Kalex | 2'26.441 | 9.746 | ||
| 28 | Jesko RAFFIN | SWI | Sports-Millions-EMWE-SAG | Kalex | 2'30.687 | 13.992 |
