Sachsenring MotoGP: Lorenzo escapes injury in practice crash

The 45-minute session began in cool, dry conditions before the rain fell just shy of the one-third mark, by which time Lorenzo, Stefan Bradl and Scott Redding had all suffered falls at Turn 11.

Redding was the first, the Pramac rider's crash occurring mere minutes into the session, before Lorenzo and Bradl both fell near-simultaneously. 

Lorenzo appeared to hurt his left wrist in the impact with the gravel trap, and was taken to the medical centre for a precautionary check. The Spaniard was declared fit, having escaped suffering a fracture.

Before the rain hit, Ducati's Andrea Iannone had set the quickest time on a 1m23.702s, knocking the Repsol Honda of Marc Marquez off the top spot by 0.414s.

Danilo Petrucci on the other Pramac machine was third quickest, another 0.041s back, ahead of Valentino Rossi on the best of the Yamahas and the second works Ducati of Andrea Dovizioso.

With the rain easing late in the session, several riders went back out for exploratory runs - including Alvaro Bautista, Cal Crutchlow and Bradl, using his second Aprilia machine - but no competitive times were set.

Practice times:

Pos	Driver	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	1'23.702
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'24.116	0.414
3	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1'24.157	0.455
4	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'24.279	0.577
5	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'24.352	0.650
6	Pol Espargaro	Yamaha	1'24.487	0.785
7	Maverick Viñales	Suzuki	1'24.592	0.890
8	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'25.141	1.439
9	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	1'25.224	1.522
10	Yonny Hernandez	Ducati	1'25.282	1.580
11	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	1'25.313	1.611
12	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	1'25.353	1.651
13	Hector Barbera	Ducati	1'25.384	1.682
14	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia	1'25.388	1.686
15	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	1'25.418	1.716
16	Jack Miller	Honda	1'26.369	2.667
17	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	1'26.623	2.921
18	Eugene Laverty	Ducati	1'26.822	3.120
19	Tito Rabat	Honda	1'27.168	3.466
20	Scott Redding	Ducati	1'27.521	3.819
21	Loris Baz	Ducati	1'29.786	6.084