2016 Qatar Moto2 FP2 Results: Folger Leads Title Favorites

Submitted by David Emmett on Thu, 2016-03-17 20:34

Jonas Folger has topped the timesheets in the second session of free practice for the Moto2 class at Qatar. The Dynavolt Intact GP rider set his fast time early in the second session to get within a couple of hundredths of the outright lap record. Sam Lowes took second spot, less than a tenth off the pace of Folger, despite a second crash of the day. Lowes just edged Alex Rins into third, the HP 40 Pons rider radically improved after a much slower FP1.

Johann Zarco took fourth spot, though the Frenchman was nearly a third of a second slower than fastest man Folger, while Franco Morbidelli made good on his debut with the Estrella Galicia Marc VDS team to take the fifth spot, tied on time with Tom Luthi. Lorenzo Baldassarri put the Forward Kalex into seventh.

Results:

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Diff Previous
1	94	Jonas Folger	Kalex	1'59.566
2	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	1'59.657	0.091	0.091
3	40	Alex Rins	Kalex	1'59.678	0.112	0.021
4	5	Johann Zarco	Kalex	1'59.889	0.323	0.211
5	21	Franco Morbidelli	Kalex	1'59.896	0.330	0.007
6	12	Thomas Luthi	Kalex	1'59.896	0.330	0.000
7	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	1'59.979	0.413	0.083
8	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Kalex	1'59.996	0.430	0.017
9	24	Simone Corsi	Speed Up	2'00.038	0.472	0.042
10	73	Alex Marquez	Kalex	2'00.049	0.483	0.011
11	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Kalex	2'00.143	0.577	0.094
12	11	Sandro Cortese	Kalex	2'00.165	0.599	0.022
13	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	2'00.179	0.613	0.014
14	23	Marcel Schrotter	Kalex	2'00.313	0.747	0.134
15	49	Axel Pons	Kalex	2'00.316	0.750	0.003
16	39	Luis Salom	Kalex	2'00.451	0.885	0.135
17	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Kalex	2'00.520	0.954	0.069
18	60	Julian Simon	Speed Up	2'00.548	0.982	0.028
19	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	2'00.633	1.067	0.085
20	44	Miguel Oliveira	Kalex	2'00.635	1.069	0.002
21	19	Xavier Simeon	Speed Up	2'00.742	1.176	0.107
22	52	Danny Kent	Kalex	2'00.757	1.191	0.015
23	97	Xavi Vierge	Tech 3	2'00.786	1.220	0.029
24	77	Dominique Aegerter	Kalex	2'00.862	1.296	0.076
25	54	Mattia Pasini	Kalex	2'01.474	1.908	0.612
26	32	Isaac Viñales	Tech 3	2'01.795	2.229	0.321
27	2	Jesko Raffin	Kalex	2'01.860	2.294	0.065
28	70	Robin Mulhauser	Kalex	2'02.090	2.524	0.230
29	8	Efren Vazquez	Suter	2'03.771	4.205	1.681
30	33	Alessandro Tonucci	Kalex	2'03.777	4.211	0.006