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After Franco Morbidelli stole his thunder in FP2, Tom Luthi wasted no time in showing his speed on Saturday morning, heading straight to the top of the timesheets and leading the Italian by over six tenths of a second for most of the session. More so, that early time was one tenth of a second faster than Tito Rabat’s pole position time from 2015.
Morbidelli shaved a few tenths off to get as close as two tenths of a second, but the biggest surprise of the session was Danny Kent, the British rider getting as high as third in the final minutes of the session. That pushed world champion Johann Zarco down to fourth position, half a second off Luthi.
Despite going down the road in turn two late in the session, Jonas Folger snatched fifth place away from Takaaki Nakagami, the Japanese rider consistently at the top end of the timesheets. Amongst the minor improvers lower down the list there was Alex Rins in tenth position, Alex Marquez in eleventh and Lorenzo Baldassarri thirteenth. Sandwiched between the last two was Sam Lowes, a rather surprising result considering his Friday showing.
Results:
Pos. | Num. | Rider | Bike | Time | Gap 1st | Prev. |
1 | 12 | Thomas LUTHI | Kalex | 1'35.118 | ||
2 | 21 | Franco MORBIDELLI | Kalex | 1'35.385 | 0.267 | 0.267 |
3 | 52 | Danny KENT | Kalex | 1'35.534 | 0.416 | 0.149 |
4 | 5 | Johann ZARCO | Kalex | 1'35.626 | 0.508 | 0.092 |
5 | 94 | Jonas FOLGER | Kalex | 1'35.630 | 0.512 | 0.004 |
6 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Kalex | 1'35.656 | 0.538 | 0.026 |
7 | 60 | Julian SIMON | Speed Up | 1'35.800 | 0.682 | 0.144 |
8 | 23 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Kalex | 1'35.835 | 0.717 | 0.035 |
9 | 11 | Sandro CORTESE | Kalex | 1'35.848 | 0.730 | 0.013 |
10 | 40 | Alex RINS | Kalex | 1'35.851 | 0.733 | 0.003 |
11 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | Kalex | 1'35.855 | 0.737 | 0.004 |
12 | 22 | Sam LOWES | Kalex | 1'35.861 | 0.743 | 0.006 |
13 | 7 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Kalex | 1'35.893 | 0.775 | 0.032 |
14 | 44 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | Kalex | 1'35.913 | 0.795 | 0.020 |
15 | 87 | Remy GARDNER | Kalex | 1'35.956 | 0.838 | 0.043 |
16 | 97 | Xavi VIERGE | Tech 3 | 1'36.019 | 0.901 | 0.063 |
17 | 49 | Axel PONS | Kalex | 1'36.084 | 0.966 | 0.065 |
18 | 24 | Simone CORSI | Speed Up | 1'36.102 | 0.984 | 0.018 |
19 | 2 | Jesko RAFFIN | Kalex | 1'36.292 | 1.174 | 0.190 |
20 | 14 | Ratthapark WILAIROT | Kalex | 1'36.356 | 1.238 | 0.064 |
21 | 57 | Edgar PONS | Kalex | 1'36.443 | 1.325 | 0.087 |
22 | 19 | Xavier SIMEON | Speed Up | 1'36.503 | 1.385 | 0.060 |
23 | 54 | Mattia PASINI | Kalex | 1'36.519 | 1.401 | 0.016 |
24 | 55 | Hafizh SYAHRIN | Kalex | 1'36.642 | 1.524 | 0.123 |
25 | 10 | Luca MARINI | Kalex | 1'36.715 | 1.597 | 0.073 |
26 | 27 | Iker LECUONA | Kalex | 1'36.805 | 1.687 | 0.090 |
27 | 70 | Robin MULHAUSER | Kalex | 1'37.146 | 2.028 | 0.341 |
28 | 42 | Federico FULIGNI | Kalex | 1'37.243 | 2.125 | 0.097 |
29 | 32 | Isaac VIÑALES | Tech 3 | 1'37.247 | 2.129 | 0.004 |
30 | 16 | Hugo CLERE | Transfiormers | 1'39.696 | 4.578 | 2.449 |