SAM LOWES BLAZES TO QATAR FRONT ROW

Aboard the Team Federal Oil Gresini Moto2 Kalex machine, Sam Lowes claimed a fantastic front row start at the end of this evening’s Qualifying for the Grand Prix of Qatar. The 25-year-old British driver set the second fastest time, 1’59”124, just 0.072 seconds off the pole position, set by German Jonas Folger.

The 20-lap race will start tomorrow at 7:20 pm local time, 5:20 pm CET.

 SAM LOWES (2nd - 1'59"124)

“I’m really happy, I was fast with both tyres today and I made again a really good pace. The wind was quite strong so I lost something in the last split without splistream, but that’s okay. I feel good, starting from the second position is positive and I think that for tomorrow we have a good chance to fight for victory. Thanks to my team, we made a good job and I’m ready to go!”.

 

 FAUSTO GRESINI

“Things went very well today and I’m satisfied. It was important to do a good qualifying and we managed to do so, we have been working well throughout the whole weekend and today’s result is proving it. Sam was once again very fast, missing the pole position by nothing, so now we just have to wait for the race. We are ready to do fight, let’s see how it goes tomorrow”.