Brno MotoGP: Dovizioso leads Ducati 1-2 in warm-up

With an increasing chance of rain hitting the track during the afternoon's race, Marquez started the warm-up with a lap on wet tyres, and then practiced a bike swap in the pits.

Early on in the session, Jorge Lorenzo was in a league of his own, as he had a significant lead with a time of 1m56.273s.

Several riders held second in the following minutes as they closed the gap to the Ducati rider, Marquez falling only 0.017s short with 10 minutes on the clock.

But it was eventually Lorenzo's factory Ducati teammate Dovizioso who demoted the Spaniard five minutes later with a 1m56.177s, and the pair ended the session first and second.

Honda's Marquez and Cal Crutchlow followed suit with Maverick Vinales ending up fifth as the fastest Yamaha.

Suzuki man Andrea Iannone ran wide and had a tumble at Turn 5 but still took sixth, followed by Tech 3 Yamaha's Hafizh Syahrin, and the Italian's teammate Alex Rins.

Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller beat Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) by half a tenth for ninth.

Dani Pedrosa (Honda) was 12th with top-eight starters Johann Zarco (Tech 3) and Danilo Petrucci (Pramac) taking only 15th and 16th respectively.

Alvaro Bautista (Nieto Ducati) fell at Turn 10, while Pol Espargaro crashed at the third corner, the KTM rider taken to the medical centre as a result.

Warm-up results

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Gap
1	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	9	1'56.177
2	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	9	1'56.273	0.096
3	93	Marc Marquez	Honda	10	1'56.290	0.113
4	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	10	1'56.336	0.159
5	25	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	10	1'56.386	0.209
6	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	8	1'56.401	0.224
7	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Yamaha	10	1'56.637	0.460
8	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	10	1'56.696	0.519
9	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	9	1'56.733	0.556
10	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	9	1'56.788	0.611
11	19	Alvaro Bautista	Ducati	9	1'56.827	0.650
12	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	8	1'56.896	0.719
13	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati	9	1'56.969	0.792
14	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	10	1'57.007	0.830
15	5	Johann Zarco	Yamaha	10	1'57.131	0.954
16	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	9	1'57.185	1.008
17	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	10	1'57.242	1.065
18	38	Bradley Smith	KTM	10	1'57.289	1.112
19	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia	10	1'57.405	1.228
20	12	Thomas Luthi	Honda	10	1'57.663	1.486
21	44	Pol Espargaro	KTM	8	1'57.797	1.620
22	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	10	1'57.925	1.748
23	50	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	10	1'57.957	1.780
24	21	Franco Morbidelli	Honda	8	1'58.037	1.860
25	10	Xavier Simeon	Ducati	10	1'58.212	2.035
26	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	10	1'58.493	2.316