The final battle to snatch the final pole position took place in Moto2 on a Ricardo Tormo track which was barely recovering from the annihilation of his lap record by Lorenzo in MotoGP. A feat which was also possible in Moto2 where the reference 1'34.957 dated from 2013 with a certain Pol Espargaro. Mission accomplished since we will now have to beat the time of 1'34.879 to be entered in the annals of the route which will also remember the name of Zarco.
Valencia Moto2 |
2015 |
2016 |
FP1 | 1'35.761 Sam Lowes | 1'35.513 Tom Luthi |
FP2 | 1'35.560 Tom Luthi | 1'35.443 Franco Morbidelli |
FP3 | 1'35.545 Tom Luthi | 1'35.118 Tom Luthi |
Qualification | 1'35.234 Tito Rabat | |
Warm Up | 1'35.689 Tom Luthi | |
Course | Rabat Rins Luthi | |
All time lap record | 1'34.957 Pol Espargaro 2013 |
A performance that the Frenchman defended tooth and nail against the Swiss Luthi who only admitted defeat by only six thousandths. The duo is followed on the first line by a Morbidely which also beat the 2013 time.
The second row remains within 1'35 per lap and it is Pasini who presents himself as the boss of the peloton, in front Kidneys et Simon. It will be noted that the last city will replace Cluzel on the MV Agusta in Supersport in 2017.
Lowes et Kent are on the third row with Nakagami wheras'Alex Marquez closes the top 10. Clear is last by more than five seconds and the first Mistral 610 is nineteenth with Virginie. Tomorrow for the race, our double World Champion will start for the seventh time from the leading position.
Valencia Moto2 Qualifying: Chronos
1 | 5 | johann zarco | Kalex | 1'34.879 | ||
2 | 12 | Thomas LUTHI | Kalex | 1'34.885 | 0.006 | 0.006 |
3 | 21 | Frank MORBIDELLI | Kalex | 1'34.933 | 0.054 | 0.048 |
4 | 54 | Matthias PASINI | Kalex | 1'35.152 | 0.273 | 0.219 |
5 | 40 | Alex Rins | Kalex | 1'35.184 | 0.305 | 0.032 |
6 | 60 | Julian SIMON | Speed Up | 1'35.222 | 0.343 | 0.038 |
7 | 22 | Sam LOWES | Kalex | 1'35.237 | 0.358 | 0.015 |
8 | 52 | Danny Kent | Kalex | 1'35.345 | 0.466 | 0.108 |
9 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Kalex | 1'35.365 | 0.486 | 0.020 |
10 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | Kalex | 1'35.368 | 0.489 | 0.003 |
11 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Kalex | 1'35.403 | 0.524 | 0.035 |
12 | 23 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Kalex | 1'35.495 | 0.616 | 0.092 |
13 | 19 | Xavier SIMEON | Speed Up | 1'35.517 | 0.638 | 0.022 |
14 | 11 | Sandro CORTESE | Kalex | 1'35.607 | 0.728 | 0.090 |
15 | 44 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | Kalex | 1'35.650 | 0.771 | 0.043 |
16 | 49 | Axel PONS | Kalex | 1'35.682 | 0.803 | 0.032 |
17 | 87 | Remy GARDNER | Kalex | 1'35.747 | 0.868 | 0.065 |
18 | 10 | Luca MARINI | Kalex | 1'35.756 | 0.877 | 0.009 |
19 | 97 | Xavi VIRGIN | Tech 3 | 1'35.797 | 0.918 | 0.041 |
20 | 57 | Edgar PONS | Kalex | 1'35.863 | 0.984 | 0.066 |
21 | 2 | Jesko RAFFIN | Kalex | 1'35.923 | 1.044 | 0.060 |
22 | 24 | Simone COURSES | Speed Up | 1'35.993 | 1.114 | 0.070 |
23 | 7 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Kalex | 1'35.995 | 1.116 | 0.002 |
24 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | Kalex | 1'36.012 | 1.133 | 0.017 |
25 | 14 | Ratthapark WILAIROT | Kalex | 1'36.045 | 1.166 | 0.033 |
26 | 27 | Iker LECUONA | Kalex | 1'36.278 | 1.399 | 0.233 |
27 | 70 | Robin MULHAUSER | Kalex | 1'36.309 | 1.430 | 0.031 |
28 | 42 | Federico FULIGNI | Kalex | 1'36.728 | 1.849 | 0.419 |
29 | 32 | Isaac VIÑALES | Tech 3 | 1'36.787 | 1.908 | 0.059 |
30 | 16 | Hugo CLERE | Transformers | 1'40.531 | 5.652 | 3.744 |
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