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Practice report

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

Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team

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Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team
Scott Redding, Pramac Racing
Scott Redding, Pramac Racing
Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati Team
Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati Team
Sam Lowes, Aprilia Racing Team Gresini

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#RiderBikeTimeGap
1 93 spain Marc Marquez  Honda 2'07.120  
2 45 united_kingdom Scott Redding  Ducati 2'08.160 1.040
3 4 italy Andrea Dovizioso  Ducati 2'08.448 1.328
4 22 united_kingdom Sam Lowes  Aprilia 2'08.470 1.350
5 99 spain Jorge Lorenzo  Ducati 2'08.489 1.369
6 26 spain Dani Pedrosa  Honda 2'08.561 1.441
7 94 germany Jonas Folger  Yamaha 2'08.591 1.471
8 35 united_kingdom Cal Crutchlow  Honda 2'08.618 1.498
9 46 italy Valentino Rossi  Yamaha 2'08.772 1.652
10 41 spain Aleix Espargaro  Aprilia 2'08.776 1.656
11 44 spain Pol Espargaro  KTM 2'08.846 1.726
12 9 italy Danilo Petrucci  Ducati 2'08.940 1.820
13 25 spain Maverick Viñales  Yamaha 2'09.398 2.278
14 38 united_kingdom Bradley Smith  KTM 2'09.499 2.379
15 5 france Johann Zarco  Yamaha 2'09.879 2.759
16 8 spain Hector Barbera  Ducati 2'10.408 3.288
17 29 italy Andrea Iannone  Suzuki 2'10.496 3.376
18 76 france Loris Baz  Ducati 2'10.579 3.459
19 42 spain Alex Rins  Suzuki 2'10.750 3.630
20 19 spain Alvaro Bautista  Ducati 2'11.018 3.898
21 17 czech_republic Karel Abraham  Ducati 2'11.639 4.519
22 43 australia Jack Miller  Honda 2'11.829 4.709
23 53 spain Tito Rabat  Honda 2'12.057 4.937

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