Valencia Moto2 Qualifying: Record and pole position for Zarco

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