Brno MotoGP: Lorenzo shows ominous warm-up pace

The factory Yamaha rider, running medium tyres front and rear, was the only man to lap consistently in the low 1m56s, setting a best time of 1m56.048s on his flying lap - just over a second away from his lap-record busting pole time from Saturday.

Andrea Iannone proved Lorenzo's closest challenger with a late effort of 1m56.419s, with Marc Marquez, who starts second on the grid, third with a best time of 1m56.543s. The reigning champion circulated in the mid-to-high 1m56s for the majority of the session, running the harder rear tyre.

Valentino Rossi was next in fourth, the Italian switching from medium to hard rear mid-session, 0.545s adrift of teammate Lorenzo and 0.011s quicker than Tech 3 Yamaha's Bradley Smith in fifth.

After a subdued Saturday, Honda's Dani Pedrosa was closer to the pace in sixth place, ahead of the second Tech 3 bike of Pol Espargaro and Suzuki's Maverick Vinales.

Yonny Hernandez (Pramac Ducati) and Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) completed the top 10 in a virtually incident-free session.

Warm-up results:

Pos.	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	1'56.048
2	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	1'56.419	0.371
3	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'56.543	0.495
4	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'56.593	0.545
5	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	1'56.604	0.556
6	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	1'56.607	0.559
7	Pol Espargaro	Yamaha	1'57.113	1.065
8	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	1'57.114	1.066
9	Yonny Hernandez	Ducati	1'57.256	1.208
10	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'57.357	1.309
11	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'57.367	1.319
12	Scott Redding	Honda	1'57.596	1.548
13	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1'57.801	1.753
14	Jack Miller	Honda	1'57.895	1.847
15	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	1'58.038	1.990
16	Hector Barbera	Ducati	1'58.230	2.182
17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	1'58.292	2.244
18	Nicky Hayden	Honda	1'58.299	2.251
19	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia	1'58.324	2.276
20	Eugene Laverty	Honda	1'58.488	2.440
21	Mike Di Meglio	Ducati	1'58.575	2.527
22	Loris Baz	Yamaha Forward	1'58.857	2.809
23	Alex de Angelis	ART/Aprilia	1'59.132	3.084
24	Claudio Corti	Yamaha Forward	2'00.186	4.138
25	Karel Abraham	Honda	2'00.677	4.629