Moto2 Phillip Island, Warm Up: Rabat ahead of Lowes, Pasini is eighth

World championship leader Esteve Rabat set the fastest time in the Moto2 class Warm Up at Phillip Island. The Marc VDS Racing Team rider lapped in 1:33.161, just 16 thousandths behind the British Speed ​​Up driver Sam Lowes.

Third time for the German Marcel Schrotter, just 84 thousandths off the top. The Team Tech 3 rider precedes the French Louis Rossi, the Spanish Maverick Vinales, the Swiss Thomas Luthi, the German Sandro Cortese and our Mattia Pasini, riding the Forward Racing Kalex.

Closing out the Top Ten are the Swiss Dominique Aegerter and the Belgian Xavier Simeon. Eleventh place for Franco Morbidelli (Kalex Team Italtrans), who crashed without physical consequences at the end of the session. Lorenzo Baldassarri with the Suter of Team Gresini is nineteenth.

Let's remember that Esteve Rabat could already become world champion today if he managed to put a 12-point gap between himself and his team-mate Mika Kallio. The combinations are as follows:

– Rabat wins the race and Kallio does not get on the podium

– Rabat finishes second and Kallio finishes eighth or behind

– Rabat finishes third and Kallio finishes twelfth or behind

– Rabat finishes fourth and Kallio finishes fifteenth or behind