News 13 Jul 2014

Round nine Moto2 pole goes to consistent Aegerter

Anthony West 25th in tight Sachsenring Moto2 session.

Source: MotoGP.

Source: MotoGP.

The Saturday afternoon qualifying action at the eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland was completed with Dominique Aegerter taking Moto2 pole, just ahead of Mika Kallio and Esteve Rabat on the front row.

Aegerter (Technomag carXpert) achieved his first ever pole by registering a hot lap of 1m24.761 late in the session, the Swiss rider qualifying just in front of Marc VDS Racing Team pair Kallio and Rabat.

An improvement from 2013 Sachsenring winner Jordi Torres (Mapfre Aspar Team Moto2) gave him his best grid slot of the year in fourth, with Franco Morbidelli (Italtrans Racing Team) and Simone Corsi (NGM Forward Racing) joining him on row two.

Johann Zarco (AirAsia Caterham), Thomas Luthi (Interwetten Paddock Moto2) and Alex De Angelis (Tasca Racing Moto2) were the trio to qualify on the third row, whilst Randy Krummenacher (IodaRacing Project) will head row four as he completed the QP top ten.

Tetsuta Nagashima (Teluru Team JiR Webike), Louis Rossi (SAG Team) and Marcel Schrotter (Tech 3) all crashed in the session but were all unhurt.

2014 MotoGP World Championship
Round nine – Sachsenring, Germany

Moto2 qualifying results:
1. Dominique Aegerter 1m24.761s
2. Mika Kallio 1m24.885s
3. Esteve Rabat 1m25.032s
4. Jordi Torres 1m25.108s
5. Franco Morbidelli 1m25.118s
6. Simone Corsi 1m25.132s
7. Johann Zarco 1m25.142s
8. Thomas Luthi 1m25.188s
9. Alex De Angelis 1m25.240s
10. Randy Krummenacher 1m25.272s
25. Anthony West (AUS) 1m25.904s

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