Submitted by David Emmett on
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 |
Comments
Baldassarri
...quietly impressive.
Julian Simon doesn't seem
Julian Simon doesn't seem like the same rider after being knocked off by Sofuoglu a few years back.