Moto2 Motegi: Eighth pole of the season for Esteve Rabat, who beats Thomas Luthi

World championship leader Esteve Rabat took pole position in the Moto2 class of the Japanese Grand Prix. For the Marc VDS Racing Team driver, this is the eighth pole position of a season so far worth remembering. achieved with a time of 1:50.854.

Rabat outwitted the Swiss from Suter Thomas Luthi right under the checkered flag, who in the end was only 33 thousandths behind. Also on the front row is the Frenchman from Suter Caterham Johann Zarco.

In the second row we find Maverick Vinales (next Suzuki MotoGP rider), the Finn Mika Kallio (Rabat's team-mate) and the Japanese Takaaki Nakagami, riding the Kalex of Idemitsu Honda Team Asia.

The best of the Italians is Franco Morbidelli, eighth and therefore on the third row. The Team Italtrans rider, who is also part of Valentino Rossi's VR46 Academy, will have at his side his teammate Julian Simon (who will ride a Speed ​​Up next year) and Axel Pons, riding the AGR Team Kalex.

The other Italians are further back. Mattia Pasini is nineteenth, Lorenzo Baldassarri twenty-first and Riccardo Russo thirty-fifth.