2020 Austria Moto2 Qualifying Result: Getting Ever Closer

Submitted by Zara Daniela on Sat, 2020-08-15 14:23

Despite the weather warnings throughout the weekend, the biggest rival for the intermediate class were the technical niggles delaying the start of Q2. After a ten minute wait, riders went out to battle for top places on the grid and the big prize went to Remy Gardner, whose fine second run secured him his second career pole position. Jorge Martin was sat in top spot after the first few laps but got pushed back by the Australian, who was three hundredths of a second faster. Marcel Schrotter sailed through Q1 and didn’t stop until he reached the front row of the grid, only sixth hundredths off pole.

Enea Bastianini will defend his championship lead from fourth, opening the second row of the grid ahead of excellent rookie Aron Canet and the man who dominated practice, Sam Lowes. Jorge Navarro, Luca Marini and Tom Luthi fill in row three and might have hoped for better placement had it not been for a yellow flag waving on their final flying laps, courtesy of a tumble by Xavi Vierge.

Marco Bezzecchi completed the top ten, only two tenths off pole, and opens fourth row ahead of Q1 escapee Joe Roberts and Augusto Fernandez. After yet another crash and cancelled laptime, Tetsuta Nagashima failed to post a time in Q2 and has a bit of a challenge in maintaining his title aspirations in Austria.

Results:

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Prev
1	87	Remy Gardner	Kalex	1'28.681
2	88	Jorge Martin	Kalex	1'28.717	0.036	0.036
3	23	Marcel Schrotter	Kalex	1'28.745	0.064	0.028
4	33	Enea Bastianini	Kalex	1'28.808	0.127	0.063
5	44	Aron Canet	Speed Up	1'28.814	0.133	0.006
6	22	Sam Lowes	Kalex	1'28.894	0.213	0.080
7	9	Jorge Navarro	Speed Up	1'28.905	0.224	0.011
8	10	Luca Marini	Kalex	1'28.913	0.232	0.008
9	12	Thomas Luthi	Kalex	1'28.919	0.238	0.006
10	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Kalex	1'28.931	0.250	0.012
11	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	1'28.983	0.302	0.052
12	37	Augusto Fernandez	Kalex	1'29.107	0.426	0.124
13	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	1'29.277	0.596	0.170
14	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	1'29.308	0.627	0.031
15	96	Jake Dixon	Kalex	1'29.357	0.676	0.049
16	97	Xavi Vierge	Kalex	1'29.388	0.707	0.031
17	35	Somkiat Chantra	Kalex
18	45	Tetsuta Nagashima	Kalex
		Q1 Results:
Q2	23	Marcel Schrotter	Kalex	1'28.944
Q2	16	Joe Roberts	Kalex	1'28.944
Q2	11	Nicolò Bulega	Kalex	1'29.226	0.282	0.282
Q2	7	Lorenzo Baldassarri	Kalex	1'29.344	0.400	0.118
19	62	Stefano Manzi	MV Agusta	1'29.370	0.426	0.026
20	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Speed Up	1'29.387	0.443	0.017
21	40	Hector Garzo	Kalex	1'29.555	0.611	0.168
22	57	Edgar Pons	Kalex	1'29.577	0.633	0.022
23	21	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Speed Up	1'29.579	0.635	0.002
24	77	Dominique Aegerter	NTS	1'29.589	0.645	0.010
25	27	Andi Farid Izdihar	Kalex	1'29.671	0.727	0.082
26	42	Marcos Ramirez	Kalex	1'29.701	0.757	0.030
27	19	Lorenzo Dalla Porta	Kalex	1'29.776	0.832	0.075
28	24	Simone Corsi	MV Agusta	1'29.873	0.929	0.097
29	64	Bo Bendsneyder	NTS	1'30.140	1.196	0.267
30	99	Kasma Daniel	Kalex	1'30.491	1.547	0.351