Valencia Moto3 Qualifying: Canet pulls out the pin

A Guevara who has not wanted to give up since the start of this Valencia meeting, a Bastianini who wants to end the year in style just like the World Champion Binder or one or the other of the Leopard drivers, such as was approximately the stage set for this final qualification of the season in Moto3. A promising spectacle under the still clement sun. For what verdict?

 

Valencia Moto3	2015	2016
FP1	1'39.930 Danny Kent	1'40.333 Juanfran Guevara
FP2	1'40.027 Efren Vazquez	1'39.556 Enea Bastianini
FP3	1'39.293 Miguel Oliveira	1'39.628 Andrea Locatelli
Qualification	1'39.364 John McPhee
Warm Up	1'40.086 Niccolo Antonelli
Course	Oliveira Navarro Kornfeil
All time lap record	1'39.068 Jack Miller 2014

 

An exercise sought after by drivers experiencing their final qualifying Saturday. The first to set the mood was a Guevara playing acrobats on a KTM with which he refused to resign himself to a fall that seemed inevitable. A figure of speech that will be remembered.

 

 

Barely recovered from these emotions, it's a Oettl conqueror who asserted himself by taking the top of the timesheet. From nothing ahead bastianini et Brad Binder while Migno et Norrodin fell heavily. Without any serious physical damage, however.

Eight minutes from the goal, all the protagonists returned to the pits to prepare for the final attacks. These were deadly for the hitherto established hierarchy. Everything was decided in the last seconds thanks to a Canet supercharged who won his first leading position at the end of his first season at this level.

The World Champion Brad Binder follows and it is Ono who will be responsible for closing the front row of this final race of the season. Open up, despite its small shape will command the second row in front Guevara who doesn't let go of the top 5.

Antonelli et Mir get ahead Oettl who slipped from first to eighth position in front Bendsneyder et bastianini, disappointing tenth. Since we are talking about disappointment, let us note the seventeenth position of NAVARRO and the twenty-third of a Quarterly penalized. Danilo is twenty-eighth after falling in the final moments, just like Locatelli. Twenty-nine pilots are united in one second.

Valencia Moto3 Qualifying: Chronos 

1	44	Aaron CANET	Honda	1'39.261
2	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'39.279	0.018	0.018
3	76	Hiroki ONO	Honda	1'39.383	0.122	0.104
4	8	Nicholas BULEGA	KTM	1'39.420	0.159	0.037
5	58	Juanfran GUEVARA	KTM	1'39.463	0.202	0.043
6	23	Niccolo ANTONELLI	Honda	1'39.524	0.263	0.061
7	65	Philipp OETTL	KTM	1'39.552	0.291	0.028
8	64	Bo BENDSNEYDER	KTM	1'39.553	0.292	0.001
9	33	Enea BASTIANINI	Honda	1'39.559	0.298	0.006
10	36	Joan Mir	KTM	1'39.577	0.316	0.018
11	48	Lorenzo FROM THE DOOR	KTM	1'39.606	0.345	0.029
12	4	Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO	Honda	1'39.616	0.355	0.010
13	98	Karel HANIKA	KTM	1'39.660	0.399	0.044
14	19	Gabriel RODRIGO	KTM	1'39.662	0.401	0.002
15	88	Jorge MARTIN	Mahindra	1'39.662	0.401
16	21	Francesco Bagnaia	Mahindra	1'39.736	0.475	0.074
17	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Honda	1'39.793	0.532	0.057
18	16	Andrea MIGNO	KTM	1'39.794	0.533	0.001
19	31	Raul FERNANDEZ	KTM	1'39.835	0.574	0.041
20	11	Livio LOI	Honda	1'39.838	0.577	0.003
21	63	Vicente PEREZ	Peugeot	1'39.911	0.650	0.073
22	24	Tatsuki SUZUKI	Mahindra	1'39.925	0.664	0.014
23	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	KTM	1'39.927	0.666	0.002
24	84	Jakub KORNFEIL	Honda	1'39.997	0.736	0.070
25	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Honda	1'40.163	0.902	0.166
26	12	Albert Arenas	Peugeot	1'40.236	0.975	0.073
27	55	Andrea LOCATELLI	KTM	1'40.261	1.000	0.025
28	95	Jules DANILO	Honda	1'40.300	1.039	0.039
29	40	Darryn BINDER	Mahindra	1'40.349	1.088	0.049
30	7	Adam NORRODIN	Honda	1'40.957	1.696	0.608
31	26	Daniel SAEZ	KTM	1'41.659	2.398	0.702
32	99	Enzo BOULOM	Mahindra	1'41.789	2.528	0.130
33	77	Lorenzo PETRARCA	Mahindra	1'42.444	3.183	0.655
34	43	Stefano VALTULINI	Mahindra	1'42.637	3.376	0.193
35	42	Marcos RAMIREZ	Mahindra	1'43.466	4.205	0.829