#SpanishGP Moto2 FP3: Alex Marquez resists Morbidelli

Here we go again for Moto2 which will in turn benefit from the beautiful track conditions this Saturday. 23° for the public, 29° for the tires, it's a sort of redistribution of the cards that the weather has managed to do for a category which had been dominated on Friday by a Alex Marquez prophet in his country.

Morbidely had stumbled while Virgin had surprised on the handlebars of the French Mistral610 in front of the no less surprising tricolor Quarterly wheras'agitated gave color to Suter. And for this Saturday morning? Here is a reminder of the references to beat:

#SpanishGP Moto2	2016	2017
FP1	1'42.642 Takaaki Nakagami	1'58.299 Alex Marquez
FP2	1'42.667 Jonas Folger	1'43.121 Alex Marquez
FP3	1'42.673 Lorenzo Baldassarri
Qualification	1'42.408 Sam Lowes
Warm Up	1'42.906 Sam Lowes
Course	Lowes, Folger, Rins
All time lap record	1'42.408 Sam Lowes 2016

 

References well understood by a Morbidely object of all covetousness by MotoGP teams, and in particular those racing with Hondas. The championship leader and winner of the first three Grands Prix did not wait to clean up the timesheet and place his name at the top.

With a time of 1'42.489, the Marc VDS driver regained the advantage over his teammate Alex Marquez while getting closer to the values ​​of the best drivers, recorded on this Jerez track. It will be recalled that the site record in the category is 1'42.408, achieved last year by Sam Lowes.

Meanwhile, Courses et Baldassarri fell at turn 13 and Andrea Locatelli fell in the same place as the day before, at turn 9.

Falls were also legion since lecuona got into glazing 6 and agitated at turn two, shortly after managing to take second position at Alex Marquez on the handlebars of his Suter. The Spaniard regained the advantage a quarter from the goal without however entering the 1'42 zone opened by his teammate. At this stage of the exercise, bagnaia et Pasini completed the top5 in front Lüthi, Olive tree, Nakagami, Baldassarri et Marini who completed the top 10. fabio quartararo was twenty-first and Virgin fourteenth.

The last part of the session was celebrated by the Italian duo composed of Pasini as well as Courses who joined their compatriot in 1'42 lap. Olive tree responded to this call shortly after with his KTM. Five minutes from the checkered flag, Alex Marquez finally made his counterattack with a 1'42.434 which launched the final explanation.

However, we left it there. The Spaniard regretted missing the record being hampered by bassani while Morbidely came up against Baldassarri by trying to challenge his teammate for the best performance. These two will meet again for this afternoon's qualifying. On the French side, Virgin was pointing seventeenth and Quarterly distant twenty-fourth prey to crippling understeer. Lüthi regretted being out of the top 10 like Nakagami.

#SpanishGP Moto2 FP3: Chronos

1. Alex Marquez SPA EG 0,0 Marc VDS (Kalex) 1m 42.434s
2. Franco Morbidelli ITA EG 0,0 Marc VDS (Kalex) 1m 42.489s
3. Mattia Pasini ITA Italtrans Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 42.646s
4. Simone Courses ITA Speed ​​Up Racing (Speed ​​Up) 1m 42.856s
5. Miguel Oliveira POR Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 1m 42.868s
6. Luca marini ITA Forward Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 43.016s
7. Jorge Navarro SPA Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 (Kalex) 1m 43.027s

8. Dominique Aegerter SWI Kiefer Racing (Suter) 1m 43.057s
9. Francis Bagnaia ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (Kalex) 1m 43.155s
10. Marcel schrotter GER Dynavolt Intact GP (Suter) 1m 43.162s
11. Sandra Cortese GER Dynavolt Intact GP (Suter) 1m 43.164s
12. Thomas luthi SWI CarXpert Interwetten (Kalex) 1m 43.221s
13. Xavier Simeon BEL Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 (Kalex) 1m 43.288s
14. Takaaki Nakagami JPN IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia (Kalex) 1m 43.294s
15. Edgar Pons SPA Pons HP40 (Kalex) 1m 43.303s
16. Lorenzo Baldassarri ITA Forward Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 43.350s
17. Xavi Verge SPA Tech 3 Racing (Tech 3) 1m 43.389s
18. Yonny Hernandez COL AGR Team (Kalex) 1m 43.389s
19. Khairul Idham Pawi MAL IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia (Kalex) 1m 43.420s
20. Axel Pons SPA RW Racing GP (Kalex) 1m 43.463s
21. Isaac Viñales SPA BE-A-VIP SAG Team (Kalex) 1m 43.484s
22. Hafiz Syahrin MAL Petronas Raceline Malaysia (Kalex) 1m 43.665s
23. Ricard Cardus SPA Red Bull KTM Ajo (KTM) 1m 43.694s
24. fabio quartararo FRA Pons HP40 (Kalex) 1m 43.697s
25. Tetsuta nagashima JPN Teluru SAG Team (Kalex) 1m 43.720s
26. Jesko Raffin SWI Garage Plus Interwetten (Kalex) 1m 43.872s
27. Remy gardner AUS Tech 3 Racing (Tech 3) 1m 44.008s
28. Andrea Locatelli ITA Italtrans Racing Team (Kalex) 1m 44.136s
29. Iker Lecuona SPA Garage Plus Interwetten (Kalex) 1m 44.262s
30. Stefano manzi ITA SKY Racing Team VR46 (Kalex) 1m 44.313s
31. Axel Bassani ITA Speed ​​Up Racing (Speed ​​Up) 1m 44.976s
32. Frederick Fuligni ITA Kiefer Racing (Suter) 1m 45.956s