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MotoGP Emilia-Romagna GP
Misano MotoGP: Bagnaia smashes lap record in third practice
Pramac Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia blitzed the Misano lap record to top third practice for the MotoGP Emilia Romagna Grand Prix despite suffering a late crash.
Lewis Duncan
Edited: Sep 19, 2020, 12:27 PM
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The cooler track conditions caught out a couple of riders in the early stages of FP3, with Pramac’s Jack Miller crashing at the first corner just a few minutes in.
This was followed shortly afterwards by Tech 3’s Miguel Oliveira, who slid off his KTM at the Turn 8 Quercia corner.
Improvements on the combined times were, as ever, few and far between in the opening stages, with Bagnaia moving into a provisional Q2 place in 10th when he went fastest on the individual FP3 timesheet with a 1m32.049s.
The next relevant combined order change came from Andrea Dovizioso on the factory Ducati, with his 1m31.955s putting him into eighth overall and top of the FP3 times with just under 13 minutes left.
A few minutes later, Bagnaia began lighting up the timing screens and demolished Maverick Vinales’ pole lap record from last Saturday to go fastest of all with a 1m31.127s.
As the field wound up for time attacks at the end of the session, several riders pushed over the limits and ended up on the deck.
Pol Espargaro, for the second FP3 in a row, crashed in the crucial time attack stages, but got away with it and held onto a place in Q2 in ninth.
Fellow KTM rider Oliveira crashed again, this time at the Turn 15 left-hander, and took some time to get to his feet after a fast tumble.
At the same moment, Bagnaia crashed at the Turn 6 left-hander where Espargaro crashed just a minute earlier.
But Bagnaia’s 1m31.127s would remain intact as the chequered flag brought the session to a close.
Vinales came close after a tough session for the factory Yamaha rider, with numerous changes to the front of his M1 in a bid to find better grip seemingly not paying off as was repeatedly caught shaking his head on the bike.
The Spaniard ended FP3 second and just 0.058s off the pace, with Fabio Quartararo completing the top three on his Petronas Yamaha ahead of teammate Franco Morbidelli – who is still suffering from the stomach bug which forced him out of Tuesday’s test at Misano.
Joan Mir was fifth on the Suzuki ahead of Friday pacesetter Brad Binder on the KTM, with Takaaki Nakagami (LCR), Valentino Rossi on the Yamaha, Espargaro and the works Ducati of Danilo Petrucci booking the final direct Q2 places in a top 10 covered by just 0.574s.
No late improvements for the likes of Miller, Avintia’s Johann Zarco in 12th, 14th-placed Dovizioso and Suzuki’s Alex Rins in 17th have created a volatile Q1 group for the first part of qualifying.
FP3 results:
Cla Rider Bike Time Gap 1 Francesco Bagnaia
Ducati 1'31.127 2 Maverick Viñales
Yamaha 1'31.185 0.058 3 Fabio Quartararo
Yamaha 1'31.359 0.232 4 Franco Morbidelli
Yamaha 1'31.429 0.302 5 Joan Mir
Suzuki 1'31.626 0.499 6 Valentino Rossi
Yamaha 1'31.680 0.553 7 Danilo Petrucci
Ducati 1'31.701 0.574 8 Takaaki Nakagami
Honda 1'31.753 0.626 9 Jack Miller
Ducati 1'31.760 0.633 10 Johann Zarco
Ducati 1'31.826 0.699 11 Brad Binder
KTM 1'31.860 0.733 12 Aleix Espargaro
Aprilia 1'31.790 0.663 13 Andrea Dovizioso
Ducati 1'31.894 0.767 14 Pol Espargaro
KTM 1'31.962 0.835 15 Iker Lecuona
KTM 1'32.229 1.102 16 Miguel Oliveira
KTM 1'32.260 1.133 17 Alex Rins
Suzuki 1'32.178 1.051 18 Alex Marquez
Honda 1'32.378 1.251 19 Bradley Smith
Aprilia 1'33.021 1.894 20 Tito Rabat
Ducati 1'33.048 1.921 21 Stefan Bradl
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