#ValenciaGP Moto2 Warm Up: Oliveira will be there

The Moto2 season will end under a storm of blue skies and a dominant sun which, this morning at Valencia, heated the stands to 11° and the track to 10°. With the promise of a much more pleasant rest of the day. The racing conditions will therefore still be different, but for this final warm-up of the year, the question was whether the 2017 champions would be able to resist the protagonists declared for 2018. In this sense, Marc VDS Racing was seriously shaken up by a KTM factory nestled within the Ajo structure which ends its first campaign at this level with fanfare.

Before looking into the question, here is the situation…

#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	1'35.050 Alex Marquez
Warm Up	1'35.456 Franco Morbidelli
Course	Zarco, Lüthi, Morbidelli (See here)
All time lap record	1'34.879 Johann Zarco 2016

 

This Sunday it is a Alex Marquez motivated who must preserve his invincibility on his land of Spain observed this year, with the exception of Aragon. He had already ensured his continued domination at home in qualifying on Saturday by taking his third local pole position. He must confirm again this Sunday at lunchtime under the checkered flag. After Jerez and Catalonia, Valencia was to be ticked off on his list.

In 1'35.950, Morbidely signaled that he was there for a ninth victory for his teammate Alex Marquez which contained the KTM ofOlive tree herself pursued by the boiling Pasini. Cardus et Quarterly led the rest of the peloton at the halfway point.

Five minutes from time, Alex Marquez planted a 1'35.806 and Pasini pushed Morbidely in third place. The three men were the only ones under the 1'36 lap mark. A workforce and a performance that matched Olive tree on his KTM at the end of the course which he absolutely made his own in 1'35.747. Marquez, Pasini et Morbidely follow. Nakagami closes the top 5 and Quarterly is twelfth.

#ValenciaGP Moto2 Warm Up: Chronos

1	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'35.747
2	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'35.791	0.044	0.044
3	54	Matthias PASINI	Kalex	1'35.850	0.103	0.059
4	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'35.853	0.106	0.003
5	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'36.178	0.431	0.325
6	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'36.212	0.465	0.034
7	88	Ricard CARDUS	Kalex	1'36.214	0.467	0.002
8	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'36.234	0.487	0.020
9	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Kalex	1'36.246	0.499	0.012
10	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'36.268	0.521	0.022
11	97	Xavi VIRGIN	Tech 3	1'36.308	0.561	0.040
12	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'36.323	0.576	0.015
13	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Suter	1'36.415	0.668	0.092
14	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed ​​Up	1'36.438	0.691	0.023
15	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'36.542	0.795	0.104
16	42	Francesco Bagnaia	Kalex	1'36.543	0.796	0.001
17	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'36.562	0.815	0.019
18	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'36.573	0.826	0.011
19	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	1'36.578	0.831	0.005
20	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'36.608	0.861	0.030
21	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'36.645	0.898	0.037
22	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'36.655	0.908	0.010
23	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'36.659	0.912	0.004
24	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'36.728	0.981	0.069
25	24	Simone COURSES	Speed ​​Up	1'36.764	1.017	0.036
26	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'36.776	1.029	0.012
27	45	Tetsuit NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'36.811	1.064	0.035
28	51	Eric GRANADO	Kalex	1'36.907	1.160	0.096
29	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'36.952	1.205	0.045
30	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'37.001	1.254	0.049
31	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'37.156	1.409	0.155
32	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'38.022	2.275	0.866
33	94	Jake DIXON	Suter	1'41.594	5.847	3.572