At the start of this qualification, and in view of the previous sessions, we can legitimately ask ourselves the question of how she could escape Jorge Navarro, or even Brad Binder or Francesco Bagnaia, the three men having dominated the field since Friday.
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Silverstone |
2015 | 2016 | ||
| Moto3 | Chrono | Pile | Chrono |
Pile |
| FP1 | 2'15.568 | Jorge Navarro | 2'15.748 | Francis Bagnaia |
| FP2 | 2'14.459 | Roman Fenati | 2'14.420 | Jorge Navarro |
| FP3 | 2'13.785 | George Martin | 2'13.882 | Jorge Navarro |
| QP | 2'12.440 | Jorge Navarro | ||
| Best lap | 2'12.440 | Jorge Navarro | ||
But that’s the point of sport in general; nothing is ever written in advance, especially since the rain is at the rendezvous it had set since the start of this English weekend.
Nevertheless, we find well Navarro and Bagnaia in the first two places after 10 minutes of driving when, simultaneously, George Martin takes command while Jorge Navarro makes a mistake on highside at turn #10! The bike is damaged and qualification seems compromised…
Martin and Bagnaia, driving together, exchange leadership to the great pleasure of Mahindra.
But things gradually speed up a duo Pawi / Mc Phee began to show the tip of their noses until the British fell at turn #11. There will also be a lot of falls for this first session in the rain (Bezzechi, Navarro, Mc Phee, Rodrigo, Locatelli, D. Binder, Herrera, Martin, Bulega, Antonelli, Ramirez, Ono, Pawi, etc.).
Mir and Danilo appear in the Top 5 before Bendsneyder take the lead 10 minutes from the checkered flag. Five minutes later, it's Brad Binder who puts his name in the Top 5 while Bagnaia takes things in hand.
After his fall at the start of the session, Jorge Navarro managed to restart to do two laps to qualify 18th.
Jules Danilo will start from 7th place, Fabio Quartararo from 21st.
Ranking to come…
