Valencia MotoGP: Marquez leads final warm-up of 2016
Marc Marquez was fastest in the final MotoGP warm-up session of the 2016 season at Valencia, heading Maverick Vinales by just over a tenth of a second.
Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team
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After qualifying second on Saturday behind a rampant Jorge Lorenzo, Marquez took charge of the 20-minute session from the start, eventually setting a best time of 1m31.095s at half-distance.
Suzuki's Vinales proved Marquez's closest challenger, lapping 0.121s slower, while Andrea Dovizioso's factory Ducati was third fastest, 0.175s behind the Honda rider.
Pol Espargaro (Tech 3 Yamaha) was best of the independents in fourth and top Yamaha, only a further 0.011s behind Dovizioso, with Andrea Iannone making it two works Ducatis in the top five.
The factory Yamahas of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo were sixth and seventh, 0.276s and 0.340s behind Marquez respectively, having run second and third early on before dropping down the order.
Aleix Espargaro (Suzuki), Bradley Smith (Tech 3 Yamaha) and Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) completed a top 10 split by less than six tenths of a second.
Dani Pedrosa on the second Repsol Honda was the last man to get within a second of Marquez's benchmark in 11th place.
Warm-up results:
Cla | # | Rider | Bike | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 93 | Marc Marquez | Honda | 1'31.095 | |
2 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Suzuki | 1'31.216 | 0.121 |
3 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 1'31.270 | 0.175 |
4 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | Yamaha | 1'31.281 | 0.186 |
5 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Ducati | 1'31.334 | 0.239 |
6 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 1'31.371 | 0.276 |
7 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 1'31.435 | 0.340 |
8 | 41 | Aleix Espargaro | Suzuki | 1'31.591 | 0.496 |
9 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Yamaha | 1'31.614 | 0.519 |
10 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda | 1'31.693 | 0.598 |
11 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 1'31.997 | 0.902 |
12 | 45 | Scott Redding | Ducati | 1'32.169 | 1.074 |
13 | 8 | Hector Barbera | Ducati | 1'32.248 | 1.153 |
14 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati | 1'32.382 | 1.287 |
15 | 43 | Jack Miller | Honda | 1'32.458 | 1.363 |
16 | 19 | Alvaro Bautista | Aprilia | 1'32.491 | 1.396 |
17 | 50 | Eugene Laverty | Ducati | 1'32.575 | 1.480 |
18 | 6 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia | 1'32.660 | 1.565 |
19 | 76 | Loris Baz | Ducati | 1'32.683 | 1.588 |
20 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Honda | 1'32.770 | 1.675 |
21 | 68 | Yonny Hernandez | Ducati | 1'32.930 | 1.835 |
22 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 1'33.749 | 2.654 |
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