2017 Barcelona Moto2 FP2 Result: Morbidelli Looking Like The Man To Beat

Submitted by Zara Daniela on Fri, 2017-06-09 14:12

Despite the intermediate class benefitting from two dry sessions, the riders took their time in improving Oliveira’s benchmark from FP1, the Estrella Galicia Marc VDS duo predictably the ones to go one better, Franco Morbidelli the first rider into the 1:49s to end the day on top.

Morbidelli was unusually low down the rankings, spending most of the session down in eighth spot and waiting until we were questioning his victory chances to jump to the top of the timesheets. The Italian did go down at turn five with three minutes remaining but no one else managed to challenge his best time.

After seeing his brother having a blast around their home circuit, Alex Marquez found some speed to lead the early part of the session, losing the lead to his teammate for three tenths of a second. Simone Corsi made the jump to third place late into the session, six tenths down on Morbidelli.

After a rather anonymous morning, Mattia Pasini had a wild afternoon, more to his usual display, the Italian climbing into fourth spot.

Jorge Navarro was probably the most pleasant surprise of the day, the Spaniard improving on his good FP1 to lead FP2 mid-session and eventually finish fifth, ahead of Yonny Hernandez.

Some familiar names filled in the top ten, with Pecco Bagnaia seventh, followed by Takaaki Nakagami, morning leader Miguel Oliveira – who was still third fastest on combined times, and Tom Luthi.

Results:

Pos.	Num.	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap 1st	Prev.
1	21	Franco MORBIDELLI	Kalex	1'49.731
2	73	Alex MARQUEZ	Kalex	1'50.047	0.316	0.316
3	24	Simone CORSI	Speed Up	1'50.358	0.627	0.311
4	54	Mattia PASINI	Kalex	1'50.465	0.734	0.107
5	9	Jorge NAVARRO	Kalex	1'50.497	0.766	0.032
6	68	Yonny HERNANDEZ	Kalex	1'50.525	0.794	0.028
7	42	Francesco BAGNAIA	Kalex	1'50.689	0.958	0.164
8	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Kalex	1'50.698	0.967	0.009
9	44	Miguel OLIVEIRA	KTM	1'50.741	1.010	0.043
10	12	Thomas LUTHI	Kalex	1'50.753	1.022	0.012
11	11	Sandro CORTESE	Suter	1'50.809	1.078	0.056
12	49	Axel PONS	Kalex	1'50.900	1.169	0.091
13	23	Marcel SCHROTTER	Suter	1'50.970	1.239	0.070
14	40	Fabio QUARTARARO	Kalex	1'50.972	1.241	0.002
15	32	Isaac VIÑALES	Kalex	1'50.976	1.245	0.004
16	19	Xavier SIMEON	Kalex	1'51.092	1.361	0.116
17	45	Tetsuta NAGASHIMA	Kalex	1'51.140	1.409	0.048
18	7	Lorenzo BALDASSARRI	Kalex	1'51.155	1.424	0.015
19	97	Xavi VIERGE	Tech 3	1'51.172	1.441	0.017
20	55	Hafizh SYAHRIN	Kalex	1'51.224	1.493	0.052
21	41	Brad BINDER	KTM	1'51.604	1.873	0.380
22	2	Jesko RAFFIN	Kalex	1'51.684	1.953	0.080
23	87	Remy GARDNER	Tech 3	1'51.798	2.067	0.114
24	62	Stefano MANZI	Kalex	1'51.839	2.108	0.041
25	37	Augusto FERNANDEZ	Speed Up	1'51.877	2.146	0.038
26	77	Dominique AEGERTER	Suter	1'51.940	2.209	0.063
27	5	Andrea LOCATELLI	Kalex	1'51.956	2.225	0.016
28	27	Iker LECUONA	Kalex	1'52.059	2.328	0.103
29	57	Edgar PONS	Kalex	1'52.083	2.352	0.024
30	89	Khairul Idham PAWI	Kalex	1'52.996	3.265	0.913
31	6	Tarran MACKENZIE	Suter	1'53.536	3.805	0.540
32	22	Federico FULIGNI	Kalex	1'53.556	3.825	0.020
33	10	Luca MARINI	Kalex	1'53.718	3.987	0.162