#ValenciaGP Moto2 Qualifying: Alex Marquez's third pole of the year and in Spain!

Between a lively Oliveira already taking a date for 2018 with his KTM and a World Champion Morbidely eager to leave Moto2 with panache, the match looked interesting for winning the last pole position of this season. A debate in which local Alex Marquez would be keen to get involved. So what would this final performance of the year mean for putting the starting grid in order?

Before discovering more, here is the essential situation table…

#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	1'35.600 Franco Morbidelli
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

 

Dixon would be forfeited after his morning fall while Fernandez began his exercise with a fall at turn 2. In 1'35.050, Alex Marquez showed his ambitions by setting the fastest time of the meeting in front of his teammate Morbidely et Pasini. Binder et agitated closed the top 5 at Olive tree.

The guest Granado, honorable thirteenth and future Forward 2018 driver, fell at turn 1 as he finished the first quarter of an hour. All under the eyes of a Tom Luthi came as a spectator during his convalescence!

The hierarchy thus remained frozen until the final minutes... Which saw explanations through many gestures and at low speed between certain protagonists worthy of the worst scenario already seen in Moto3. Between Pasini, Schrotter et Cortese, we didn't really know what to do, going so far as to hinder Brad Binder in a quick turn.

Binder fell later in turn 4. Pasini et Axel Pons were fried on the track following a disagreement but Alex Marquez still signed his third pole of the season and as many in Spain this year. Morbidely and the very boiling Pasini completed the first line. Oliveira, Binder and Aegerter are on a second row where we do not find the slightest Kalex. Quarterly is sixteenth and Virgin placed his Mistal 610 in ninth place.

#ValenciaGP Moto2 Qualifying: Chronos

1	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'35.050
2	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'35.115	0.065	0.065
3	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'35.155	0.105	0.040
4	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'35.182	0.132	0.027
5	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'35.323	0.273	0.141
6	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'35.448	0.398	0.125
7	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'35.462	0.412	0.014
8	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'35.467	0.417	0.005
9	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'35.653	0.603	0.186
10	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Suter	1'35.683	0.633	0.030
11	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'35.762	0.712	0.079
12	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'35.770	0.720	0.008
13	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'35.787	0.737	0.017
14	88	Ricard CARDUS	Kalex	1'35.848	0.798	0.061
15	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'35.866	0.816	0.018
16	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'35.923	0.873	0.057
17	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'35.970	0.920	0.047
18	51	Eric GRANADO	Kalex	1'36.022	0.972	0.052
19	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'36.033	0.983	0.011
20	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'36.035	0.985	0.002
21	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'36.043	0.993	0.008
22	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'36.101	1.051	0.058
23	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	1'36.142	1.092	0.041
24	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'36.165	1.115	0.023
25	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'36.189	1.139	0.024
26	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'36.208	1.158	0.019
27	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'36.269	1.219	0.061
28	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'36.333	1.283	0.064
29	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'36.397	1.347	0.064
30	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'36.403	1.353	0.006
31	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'36.403	1.353
32	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'36.996	1.946	0.593
	94	Jake DIXON	Suter