Following a very strong morning session where Tech3 Racing rider Remy Gardner topped the practice momentarily, the pace of the entire Moto2 World Championship field raised enormously during Qualifying. Thereby the young Australian lowered his time significantly as well, but eventually missed out on the top by 0.811 seconds. In the meantime, Bo Bendsneyder did some solid work as well, going nearly one second faster in FP3 than in the first session on Friday morning. The Dutch rookie concluded Qualifying just 0.072 seconds behind his teammate. Both, Gardner and Bendsneyder will have to attack on Sunday at 12.20 local time from the sixth and the seventh row of the grid, respectively.
Bo Bendsneyder ; Position: 21st – Time: 1’24.670 – Laps: 23
“I think finally the lap time we made was similar to our target, but we didn’t expect, that the guys in front make this huge step. But the lap time combined with our pace was quite satisfying. 21stplace is not ideal, but we are happy with the time and look forward to tomorrow. Hopefully we can have a great start and do decent race. Obviously, it will be hard because we have many laps to master, especially if it’s hot like today. It won’t be easy physically and also with the tyres, so we need to be focused on the race. Let’s see what we can do.”
Results QP:
| 1 | Mattia PASINI | Italtrans Racing Team | 1’23.787 |
| 2 | Luca MARINI | SKY Racing Team VR46 | 1’23.968 |
| 3 | Francesco BAGNAIA | SKY Racing Team VR46 | 1’23.970 |
| 4 | Sam LOWES | Swiss Innovative Investors | 1’23.971 |
| 5 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Pons HP40 | 1’24.021 |
| 6 | Xavi VIERGE | Dynavolt Intact GP | 1’24.036 |
| 7 | Alex MARQUEZ | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | 1’24.079 |
| 8 | Joan MIR | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | 1’24.092 |
| 9 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Dynavolt Intact GP | 1’24.102 |
| 10 | Brad BINDER | Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1’24.178 |
| 11 | Romano FENATI | Marinelli Snipers Team | 1’24.280 |
| 12 | Danny KENT | MB Conveyors – Speed Up Racing | 1’24.312 |
| 13 | Augusto FERNANDEZ | Pons HP40 | 1’24.333 |
| 14 | Isaac VIÑALES | SAG Team | 1’24.341 |
| 15 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1’24.360 |
| 16 | Jorge NAVARRO | Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 | 1’24.366 |
| 17 | Andrea LOCATELLI | Italtrans Racing Team | 1’24.386 |
| 18 | Fabio QUARTARARO | MB Conveyors – Speed Up Racing | 1’24.495 |
| 19 | Simone CORSI | Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 | 1’24.546 |
| 20 | Remy GARDNER | Tech 3 Racing | 1’24.598 |
| 21 | Bo BENDSNEYDER | Tech 3 Racing | 1’24.670 |
| 22 | Steven ODENDAAL | NTS RW Racing GP | 1’24.695 |
| 23 | Dominique AEGERTER | Kiefer Racing | 1’24.710 |
| 24 | Khairul Idham PAWI | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | 1’24.737 |
| 25 | Iker LECUONA | Swiss Innovative Investors | 1’24.801 |
| 26 | Tetsuta NAGASHIMA | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | 1’24.834 |
| 27 | Stefano MANZI | Forward Racing Team | 1’25.198 |
| 28 | Eric GRANADO | Forward Racing Team | 1’25.416 |
| 29 | Jules DANILO | Nashi Argan SAG Team | 1’25.441 |
| 30 | Joe ROBERTS | NTS RW Racing GP | 1’25.450 |
| 31 | Federico FULIGNI | Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 | 1’25.525 |
| 32 | Xavi CARDELUS | Team Stylobike | 1’27.477 |
Source: motogp.com, tech3 racing
