#ValenciaGP Moto2 FP3: Morbidelli leads and KTM takes out the MotoGP fairing!

Franco Morbidelli may be World Champion on the Marc VDS Racing Kalex, the fact remains that, for two Grands Prix, it is KTM which rules the roost in Moto2. Winner in Australia then in Malaysia with his driver Miguel Oliveira, the Mattighofen firm had shown yesterday, Friday, that it would make the pass of three for the last of the year in Valencia. And to make matters worse, second driver Brad Binder is starting to get his bearings and is appearing more and more often in the top 5. Was the competition going to react on this Saturday, which was as sunny as the day before?

Before answering this question, here is a table as an overview…

#ValenciaGP Moto2™	2016	2017
FP1	1'35.513 Tom Lüthi	1'35.847 Miguel Oliveira
FP2	1'35.443 Franco Morbidelli	1'35.802 Miguel Oliveira
FP3	1'35.118 Tom Lüthi
Qualification	1'34.879 Johann Zarco
Warm Up	1'35.456 Franco Morbidelli
Course	Zarco, Lüthi, Morbidelli (See here)
All time lap record	1'34.879 Johann Zarco 2016

 

A little less than 19° on the track and 20° in the stands, the sky was mild in Valencia and would not interfere in the debates this late morning in the category. In 1'35.883, agitated gave the first reference to the handlebars of his Suter, in front Cardus, replacing a Lüthi who we will not see again at such a party since he will be in MotoGP next year.

Before the end of the first quarter of an hour, Olive tree answered but had his politeness grilled by Morbidely who signed the fastest performance since the start of the meeting in 1'35.600. Along the way, the Portuguese pointed out that it had a new fairing... Would aerodynamic research resume in Moto2, despite the ban on wings?...

The same Olive tree, in 1'35.637, managed to insert himself between the two Marc VDS Racing drivers, regretting 37 thousandths behind the leader Morbidely while preceding Alex Marquez by only 99 thousandths… agitated et Pasini completed a top 5 closed to Cardus.

When crunching the last ten minutes Axel Pons went to the ground at turn 4. In passing we noted that 22 drivers were moving in the same second...

On the ranking side, we left it there with a Morbidely leader in front Olive tree and whose brother you know. Brad Binder et agitated completed the top 5. Quarterly was twenty-first. At turn 13, Dixon An impressive face appeared and he was evacuated on a stretcher.

#ValenciaGP Moto2 FP3: Chronos

1	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'35.600
2	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'35.637	0.037	0.037
3	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'35.736	0.136	0.099
4	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'35.826	0.226	0.090
5	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'35.848	0.248	0.022
6	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'35.851	0.251	0.003
7	88	Ricard CARDUS	Kalex	1'35.893	0.293	0.042
8	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Suter	1'35.903	0.303	0.010
9	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'35.922	0.322	0.019
10	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'35.986	0.386	0.064
11	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'35.991	0.391	0.005
12	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'36.021	0.421	0.030
13	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'36.060	0.460	0.039
14	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'36.111	0.511	0.051
15	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'36.132	0.532	0.021
16	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'36.171	0.571	0.039
17	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'36.333	0.733	0.162
18	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'36.434	0.834	0.101
19	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'36.447	0.847	0.013
20	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'36.511	0.911	0.064
21	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'36.525	0.925	0.014
22	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'36.578	0.978	0.053
23	51	Eric GRANADO	Kalex	1'36.601	1.001	0.023
24	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'36.633	1.033	0.032
25	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'36.666	1.066	0.033
26	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	1'36.686	1.086	0.020
27	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'36.690	1.090	0.004
28	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'36.833	1.233	0.143
29	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'36.864	1.264	0.031
30	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'37.183	1.583	0.319
31	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'37.270	1.670	0.087
32	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'37.295	1.695	0.025
33	94	Jake DIXON	Suter	1'37.500	1.900	0.205