Valencia MotoGP: Marquez heads Lorenzo in final warm-up, Rossi fourth
Honda rider Marc Marquez headed the timesheets in the final warm-up session of the 2015 MotoGP season at Valencia, going three tenths clear of the rest of the field.
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Championship contenders Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi ended the last pre-race session in second and fourth respectively, split by the Tech 3 Yamaha of Pol Espargaro.
Marquez headed the session virtually from the very beginning and, while Lorenzo seemed to largely match his pace in the mid-1m31s, it was the Honda rider who led at the halfway point.
Despite getting very close on two subsequent attempts, Lorenzo could not surpass Marquez's earlier benchmark - and the reigning champion subsequently put in a 1m31.062s at the chequered flag to put his place at the top beyond doubt.
Rossi, meanwhile, ran several laps in the high-1m31s in the first stint, which took him to third - but he was then demoted by Dani Pedrosa, who ran four consecutive high-1m31s laps late on.
Rossi responded with his session-best time of 1m31.618s, but would have to settle for fourth in the end, as Espargaro moved 0.021s past in the dying seconds.
With Pedrosa fifth, Cal Crutchlow was sixth for LCR Honda, while Andrea Iannone was the top Ducati in seventh.
Iannone's teammate Andrea Dovizioso was 10th, the Ducati duo split by Bradley Smith (Tech 3 Yamaha) and Aleix Espargaro (Suzuki).
Warm-up results:
Pos | Rider | Team | Bike | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Marc Marquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda RC213V | 1:31.062 |
2 | Jorge Lorenzo | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha YZR-M1 | 1:31.383 |
3 | Pol Espargaro | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha YZR-M1 | 1:31.597 |
4 | Valentino Rossi | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha YZR-M1 | 1:31.618 |
5 | Dani Pedrosa | Repsol Honda Team | Honda RC213V | 1:31.713 |
6 | Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda | Honda RC213V | 1:31.788 |
7 | Andrea Iannone | Ducati Team | Ducati Desmosedici GP15 | 1:31.854 |
8 | Bradley Smith | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha YZR-M1 | 1:31.992 |
9 | Aleix Espargaro | Team Suzuki ECSTAR | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:32.221 |
10 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati Desmosedici GP15 | 1:32.317 |
11 | Maverick Viñales | Team Suzuki ECSTAR | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:32.327 |
12 | Yonny Hernandez | Pramac Racing | Ducati Desmosedici GP14 | 1:32.548 |
13 | Michele Pirro | Ducati Team | Ducati Desmosedici GP15 | 1:32.605 |
14 | Scott Redding | Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda RC213V | 1:32.624 |
15 | Stefan Bradl | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:32.757 |
16 | Mike di Meglio | Avintia Racing | Ducati Desmosedici GP14 | 1:32.914 |
17 | Danilo Petrucci | Pramac Racing | Ducati Desmosedici GP14 | 1:32.956 |
18 | Hector Barbera | Avintia Racing | Ducati Desmosedici GP14 | 1:32.998 |
19 | Alvaro Bautista | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:33.177 |
20 | Loris Baz | Forward Racing | Yamaha Forward | 1:33.227 |
21 | Nicky Hayden | Aspar MotoGP Team | Honda RC213V-RS | 1:33.240 |
22 | Jack Miller | LCR Honda | Honda | 1:33.313 |
23 | Eugene Laverty | Aspar MotoGP Team | Honda RC213V-RS | 1:33.502 |
24 | Toni Elias | Forward Racing | Yamaha Forward | 1:33.521 |
25 | Anthony West | AB Motoracing | Honda RC213V-RS | 1:34.047 |
26 | Broc Parkes | E-Motion IodaRacing Team | ART | 1:34.750 |
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