Tech3 Racing team’s Remy Gardner showed an impressive improvement on Saturday at the newly added Chang International Circuit, finding 1.445 seconds from FP1 to the hot Qualifying this afternoon. The fast Australian eventually finished just 0.559 seconds from the top in P18 of the ultra-competitive intermediate class field. However, Bo Bendsneyder made huge steps as well, going 1.143 seconds faster during Qualifying than yesterday morning. He’ll attack the 15th round of the 2018 Moto2 World Championship season from the eighth row, when the red lights turn black tomorrow at 12.20 local time (7.20 CET).
Bo Bendsneyder – Position: 23rd – Time: 1’37.474 – Laps: 20
“I think we made a good step in Qualifying, especially with the pace we had. Also with used tyres I can do the 37’s, so I was happy about it. Plus, I did it alone with a good pace. It’s still hard to make this one good lap, as for my feeling I didn’t have the perfect one and I made some mistakes. On the last lap I tried to improve; the first sector was better, the second sector was similar to the lap before and in the third sector I tried to shift to third gear, but it didn’t want to go in. I believe I can be 0.1 or 0.2 seconds faster, but overall with the feeling I’m quite happy, so I’m looking forward to the race, which will be long. Let’s see if we can fight for a good place tomorrow.”
results QP:
| Pos | Rider | Team | Fastest lap |
| 1 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Pons HP40 | 1’36.374 |
| 2 | Alex MARQUEZ | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | 1’36.400 |
| 3 | Luca MARINI | SKY Racing Team VR46 | 1’36.408 |
| 4 | Mattia PASINI | Italtrans Racing Team | 1’36.527 |
| 5 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1’36.529 |
| 6 | Francesco BAGNAIA | SKY Racing Team VR46 | 1’36.531 |
| 7 | Brad BINDER | Red Bull KTM Ajo | 1’36.545 |
| 8 | Fabio QUARTARARO | MB Conveyors – Speed Up | 1’36.589 |
| 9 | Augusto FERNANDEZ | Pons HP40 | 1’36.661 |
| 10 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Dynavolt Intact GP | 1’36.689 |
| 11 | Joan MIR | EG 0,0 Marc VDS | 1’36.744 |
| 12 | Iker LECUONA | Swiss Innovative Investors | 1’36.797 |
| 13 | Simone CORSI | Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 | 1’36.865 |
| 14 | Dominique AEGERTER | Kiefer Racing | 1’36.867 |
| 15 | Sam LOWES | Swiss Innovative Investors | 1’36.877 |
| 16 | Andrea LOCATELLI | Italtrans Racing Team | 1’36.878 |
| 17 | Jorge NAVARRO | Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 | 1’36.894 |
| 18 | Tetsuta NAGASHIMA | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | 1’36.898 |
| 19 | Remy GARDNER | Tech 3 Racing | 1’36.933 |
| 20 | Xavi VIERGE | Dynavolt Intact GP | 1’37.069 |
| 21 | Steven ODENDAAL | NTS RW Racing GP | 1’37.287 |
| 22 | Joe ROBERTS | NTS RW Racing GP | 1’37.432 |
| 23 | Bo BENDSNEYDER | Tech 3 Racing | 1’37.474 |
| 24 | Khairul Idham PAWI | IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia | 1’37.537 |
| 25 | Edgar PONS | MB Conveyors – Speed Up | 1’37.588 |
| 26 | Thitipong WAROKORN | SAG Team | 1’37.673 |
| 27 | Stefano MANZI | Forward Racing Team | 1’37.686 |
| 28 | Niki TUULI | Petronas Sprinta Racing | 1’37.722 |
| 29 | Xavi CARDELUS | Marinelli Snipers Team | 1’37.997 |
| 30 | Jules DANILO | Nashi Argan SAG Team | 1’38.260 |
| 31 | Isaac VIÑALES | Forward Racing Team | 1’38.622 |
| 32 | Federico FULIGNI | Tasca Racing Scuderia Moto2 | 1’38.772 |
Source: motogp.com, tech3 racing
