Brno MotoGP: Marquez tops wet warm-up by a second
Marc Marquez dominated Sunday morning's warm-up for MotoGP's Czech Grand Prix, beating second-placed Scott Redding by more than a second in greasy conditions.
Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team
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The 20-minute session was held under wet conditions, with light rain falling on the Brno track.
Pramac Ducati's Redding, who will start the race from the last place after feeling ill in qualifying, was the early pace-setter.
The factory bike of Jorge Lorenzo, still sporting Ducati's radical new fairing, soon went more than 1.5s quicker, while teammate Andrea Dovizioso joined him at the top of the times in second.
The duo further improved with seven minutes to go, with Dovizioso edging ahead by four hundredths.
However, Redding fought back to retake first place with a 2m08.160s, only for his time to be obliterated at the very end by Marquez, whose 2m07.120s put him more than a second clear.
Redding and Dovizioso ended up second and third with Aprilia's Sam Lowes, another back-row qualifier, jumping up to fourth late in the session.
Lorenzo and the second Repsol Honda of Dani Pedrosa completed the top six, the latter narrowly outpacing Tech 3 Yamaha's Jonas Folger and LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow.
Valentino Rossi was the quicker of the two factory Yamahas in ninth, as Maverick Vinales could only take 13th, more than two seconds off the pace.
The second Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro was 10th, followed by his brother Pol on the best of the KTMs.
Warm-up results
Cla | # | Rider | Bike | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 93 | Marc Marquez | Honda | 2'07.120 | |
2 | 45 | Scott Redding | Ducati | 2'08.160 | 1.040 |
3 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 2'08.448 | 1.328 |
4 | 22 | Sam Lowes | Aprilia | 2'08.470 | 1.350 |
5 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati | 2'08.489 | 1.369 |
6 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 2'08.561 | 1.441 |
7 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Yamaha | 2'08.591 | 1.471 |
8 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda | 2'08.618 | 1.498 |
9 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 2'08.772 | 1.652 |
10 | 41 | Aleix Espargaro | Aprilia | 2'08.776 | 1.656 |
11 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | KTM | 2'08.846 | 1.726 |
12 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati | 2'08.940 | 1.820 |
13 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Yamaha | 2'09.398 | 2.278 |
14 | 38 | Bradley Smith | KTM | 2'09.499 | 2.379 |
15 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Yamaha | 2'09.879 | 2.759 |
16 | 8 | Hector Barbera | Ducati | 2'10.408 | 3.288 |
17 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Suzuki | 2'10.496 | 3.376 |
18 | 76 | Loris Baz | Ducati | 2'10.579 | 3.459 |
19 | 42 | Alex Rins | Suzuki | 2'10.750 | 3.630 |
20 | 19 | Alvaro Bautista | Ducati | 2'11.018 | 3.898 |
21 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ducati | 2'11.639 | 4.519 |
22 | 43 | Jack Miller | Honda | 2'11.829 | 4.709 |
23 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Honda | 2'12.057 | 4.937 |
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