MOTOGP
FIM MOTOGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHP
ROUND 10 / AUGUST 4-6, 2017
BRNO CIRCUIT / OSTROVAČICE, CZECH REPUBLIC
P60
Morbidelli, front-row starter Miguel
Oliveira (Red Bull KTM) and Alex
Marquez (EG-VDS Kalex).
By now other riders were also
gesturing, and the red flags
came out with 13 of the sched-
uled 20 laps still remaining.
A six-lap sprint was sched-
uled, by when the track was
starting to dry a little. It was now
that Luthi made an important
Thomas Luthi (CarXpert Kalex).
It was all down to the weather,
with Moto2 the hardest hit in a
difficult day of changing condi-
tions.
The race started in the dry,
with Pasini leading the first six
laps. Then it started to rain, and
he was the first to put his hand
up, dropping to fourth at the end
of lap seven behind new leader
Moto2
Old warhorse Mattia Pa-
sini claimed his first pole since
Australia in 2007 (in the 125cc
class), but it came to nothing for
the 31-year-old Italtrans Kalex
rider, on a day when third quali-
fier and title leader Franco Mor-
bidelli (EG-VDS Kalex) suffered
badly. The luck turned instead
in favor of his closest title rival
After a torrid time in
qualifying, Luthi (12)
turned it around for a
stellar victory.
