Misano MotoGP: Lorenzo sets new track record running winglets

With Marquez mired in traffic in the early moments, Lorenzo set the pace from the get-go, with Ducati’s Andrea Iannone and Dani Pedrosa then grabbing brief moments of glory in P1.

Marquez slammed in a 1m33.138s, which stood as the quickest time for much of the session, well clear of Lorenzo on 1m33.938s at the time. Pedrosa rose to second on 1m33.382s, as Lorenzo chipped down to 1m33.516s in third.

Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi was down in sixth until the final lap of his first run, jumping ahead of Pol Espargaro and Andrea Dovizioso from P6 to P4 with a lap of 1m33.852s.

Lorenzo immediately leapfrogged Pedrosa to go P2 on his second run on 1m33.226s. Marquez almost matched his P1 time with 1m33.175s, then lowered his fastest time to 1m32.924s.

Yamaha added small aerodynamic winglets to Lorenzo’s bike in time for his final run with 10 minutes to go. He immediately improved to the top of the charts on 1m32.871s.

Marquez had no answer for that, with his Honda teammate Pedrosa third on 1m33.258s, ahead of Dovizioso on 1m33.291s who was using the soft rear tyre on his Ducati.

Ducati used far larger double-element wings than usual on its regular duo’s fairings, while test rider Michele Pirro, stuck with the older-spec wings and was ninth fastest.

Rossi improved his time to 1m33.469s but dropped back to fifth.

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Pol Espargaro and Danilo Petrucci were sixth and seventh respectively.

Cal Crutchlow crashed at Turn 10, Iannone doing likewise later in the session.

The already-injured Karel Abraham suffered a big high-side at Turn 14.

Pos	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	1'32.871		19
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'32.924	0.053	20
3	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	1'33.258	0.387	20
4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'33.291	0.420	20
5	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'33.469	0.598	23
6	Pol Espargaro	Yamaha	1'33.552	0.681	22
7	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1'33.553	0.682	19
8	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	1'33.595	0.724	23
9	Michele Pirro	Ducati	1'33.674	0.803	15
10	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'33.785	0.914	18
11	Scott Redding	Honda	1'33.808	0.937	20
12	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	1'33.840	0.969	20
13	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	1'34.132	1.261	18
14	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	1'34.215	1.344	19
15	Eugene Laverty	Honda	1'34.345	1.474	20
16	Loris Baz	Yamaha Forward	1'34.500	1.629	17
17	Yonny Hernandez	Ducati	1'34.595	1.724	20
18	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia	1'34.727	1.856	21
19	Jack Miller	Honda	1'34.856	1.985	19
20	Héctor Barberá	Ducati	1'35.011	2.140	16
21	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	1'35.036	2.165	20
22	Nicky Hayden	Honda	1'35.394	2.523	18
23	Alex de Angelis	ART/Aprilia	1'35.735	2.864	16
24	Mike Di Meglio	Ducati	1'35.853	2.982	16
25	Claudio Corti	Yamaha Forward	1'36.326	3.455	18
26	Karel Abraham	Honda	1'36.530	3.659	16