Idemitsu Honda’s Taka Nakagami took pole position for tomorrow’s Moto2 race at the Sachsenring MotoGP round and he is joined on the front row by reigning champion Johann Zarco and Alex Rins while Britain’s Sam Lowes struggled to find a laptime and suffered a crash early in the session.
Nakagami set a 1’24.274 on his final lap to best Zarco by a quarter of a second while Rins was a tenth further back. Lowes seemed uncomfortable on his Gresini Kalex and finished the session in tenth place, seven-tenths off the lead.
Simone Corsi (Speed Up Racing) will begin the German GP in fourth ahead of Franco Morbidelli (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS). Both the Italians have shown great pace at the Sachsenring during their previous visits and will be looking for their first wins in the intermediate class. Sachsenring has a habit of producing first time winners, the last three Moto2™ races being won by riders who had never won before.
Sandro Cortese (Dynavolt Intact GP), Lorenzo Baldassarri (Forward Team), Alex Marquez (Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS), Marcel Schrotter (AGR Team) and Sam Lowes (Federal Oil Gresini Moto2) completed the top ten.
Danny Kent will take no further part in the weekend’s action after aggravating a rib he broke during a kart race earlier in the week.
