18 and 20, these are the beautiful notes displayed by the sunny weather on a site in Jerez which will bring us to the Spanish Grand Prix of the category, the fourth meeting of the year. A season well started by Franco Morbidelli, winner of the first three meetings. But for the deadline in Andalusia it is his teammate and stage local Alex Marquez which has set the tone since Friday. Will it be the same this Sunday?
To fully understand the influence of the Marc VDS driver, here is the information table which says a lot about the domination of the brother of whom you know.
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#SpanishGP Moto2 |
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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 | 1'42.434 Alex Marquez |
| Qualification | 1'42.408 Sam Lowes | 1'42.080 Alex Marquez |
| Warm Up | 1'42.906 Sam Lowes | |
| Course | Lowes, Folger, Rins | |
| All time lap record |
For these last 20 minutes of testing before launching into the race, the concern came from the start of a Miguel Olive tree to the smoking KTM. Which did not prevent the Portuguese from signing the first reference of choice in 1'43.452. Halfway through the session, Morbidely opened the handle wide to offer himself a more significant 1'42.743 to claim to play the leading roles.
A best time which will be displayed in 1'42.602 five minutes from the goal by the KTM ofOlive tree definitely got off to a good start. The duel with the championship leader was launched before the eyes of Nakagami et Alex Marquez who were the two other drivers capable of performing under the 1'43 per lap mark.
Unfortunately for the KTM official, his demonstration was spoiled by a fall at the formidable turn 6 in sight of the checkered flag. We left it there with one Morbidely who dotted the i's in 1'42.527 ahead Olive tree, Nakagami et Alex Marquez. Courses led the rest of a peloton made up of Pasini, Aegerter, Lüthi, Axel Pons and Bagnaia.
French side, Virgin posted his Mistral610 seventeenth and Quarterly was content with nineteenth place.
#SpanishGP Moto2 Warm-Up: Chronos
| 1 | 21 | Frank MORBIDELLI | Kalex | 1'42.527 | ||
| 2 | 44 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | KTM | 1'42.602 | 0.075 | 0.075 |
| 3 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Kalex | 1'42.846 | 0.319 | 0.244 |
| 4 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | Kalex | 1'42.976 | 0.449 | 0.130 |
| 5 | 24 | Simone COURSES | Speed Up | 1'43.014 | 0.487 | 0.038 |
| 6 | 54 | Matthias PASINI | Kalex | 1'43.038 | 0.511 | 0.024 |
| 7 | 77 | Dominique AEGERTER | Suter | 1'43.171 | 0.644 | 0.133 |
| 8 | 12 | Thomas LUTHI | Kalex | 1'43.203 | 0.676 | 0.032 |
| 9 | 49 | Axel PONS | Kalex | 1'43.248 | 0.721 | 0.045 |
| 10 | 42 | Francesco Bagnaia | Kalex | 1'43.293 | 0.766 | 0.045 |
| 11 | 7 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Kalex | 1'43.307 | 0.780 | 0.014 |
| 12 | 19 | Xavier SIMEON | Kalex | 1'43.397 | 0.870 | 0.090 |
| 13 | 10 | Luca MARINI | Kalex | 1'43.482 | 0.955 | 0.085 |
| 14 | 9 | Jorge NAVARRO | Kalex | 1'43.507 | 0.980 | 0.025 |
| 15 | 23 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Suter | 1'43.516 | 0.989 | 0.009 |
| 16 | 11 | Sandro CORTESE | Suter | 1'43.538 | 1.011 | 0.022 |
| 17 | 97 | Xavi VIRGIN | Tech 3 | 1'43.564 | 1.037 | 0.026 |
| 18 | 57 | Edgar PONS | Kalex | 1'43.671 | 1.144 | 0.107 |
| 19 | 40 | Fabio QUARTARARO | Kalex | 1'43.674 | 1.147 | 0.003 |
| 20 | 88 | Ricard CARDUS | KTM | 1'43.736 | 1.209 | 0.062 |
| 21 | 2 | Jesko RAFFIN | Kalex | 1'43.869 | 1.342 | 0.133 |
| 22 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | Kalex | 1'43.889 | 1.362 | 0.020 |
| 23 | 89 | Khairul Idham PAWI | Kalex | 1'44.199 | 1.672 | 0.310 |
| 24 | 32 | Isaac VIÑALES | Kalex | 1'44.231 | 1.704 | 0.032 |
| 25 | 45 | Tetsuit NAGASHIMA | Kalex | 1'44.266 | 1.739 | 0.035 |
| 26 | 68 | Yonny HERNANDEZ | Kalex | 1'44.273 | 1.746 | 0.007 |
| 27 | 27 | Iker LECUONA | Kalex | 1'44.495 | 1.968 | 0.222 |
| 28 | 87 | Remy GARDNER | Tech 3 | 1'44.516 | 1.989 | 0.021 |
| 29 | 5 | Andrea LOCATELLI | Kalex | 1'44.526 | 1.999 | 0.010 |
| 30 | 62 | Stefano MANZI | Kalex | 1'44.812 | 2.285 | 0.286 |
| 31 | 47 | Axel BASSANI | Speed Up | 1'44.816 | 2.289 | 0.004 |
| 32 | 22 | Federico FULIGNI | Suter | 1'45.850 | 3.323 | 1.0 |
