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Boredom in the first forty minutes and then all hell broke loose in the last five minutes: The Moto2 qualifying session had duels similar to a race, where there was no lack of overtaking at the limit and trains of many riders, all in one another’s slipstream.
Like in the morning, Johann Zarco stopped the clock with the best time, and the Frenchman’s 1’29”255 was achieved on a completely open track, so the reigning world champion did a very good job because he took the pole, but also clever and lucky, staying out of traffic and avoiding obstacles.
For Zarco, this is the second pole position of the season after the one at Barcelona in June. Beside the Frenchman on the grid will be a very fast Franco Morbidelli who dominated almost the entire session before Zarco snatched the pole from him in the final minutes. For Franco this is the best qualifying result of the year and his gap from the best time was a full tenth.
Third best time went to Swiss rider Thomas Luthi who finished out the first row, fourth for Marcel Schrotter ahead of Alex Marquez, Axel Pons and a spectacular Sam Lowes. Alex Rins closed out the qualifiers with a ninth final position, behind Takaaki Nakagami, eighth, and ahead of Jonas Folger, tenth.
Another Italian is Lorenzo Baldassarri, with the twelfth best time at 1’29”926, in between Dominique Aegerter and Sandro Cortese, two guys who will be trying to make up for lost ground tomorrow in the race.
Among those who will have to make up position, we have Mattia Pasini with the seventeenth best time, Luca Marini who will start nineteenth and Simone Corsi who rode his Honda powered Speed Up to the twenty-second spot on the grid.
