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Misano MotoGP: Marquez leads wildcard Pirro in FP1

Marc Marquez was fastest in the first MotoGP practice session at Misano, with Ducati test rider Michele Pirro leading the Italian team's efforts in second.

Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team

Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team

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Honda rider Marquez led for most of the session, first demoting early pace-setter Danilo Petrucci with a 1m35.274s, but three minutes later the Spaniard lowered his time by more than a second.

The reigning champion's time of 1m33.951s was the benchmark for the majority of the session, although a late effort from Pirro - making his second MotoGP appearance of the year on a third works Ducati - narrowed that gap to 0.037s with five minutes to go.

Shortly afterwards, Marquez went even quicker with a 1m33.556s, ending the session on top by 0.432s.

Pirro ended up second, beating championship leader Andrea Dovizioso by nearly two tenths.

Dovizioso was the only GP17 rider not to use the Ducati aero fairing, as Pirro, Petrucci and Jorge Lorenzo, the latter pair taking fifth and sixth in the session, all tried it.

Honda's Cal Crutchlow was seemingly unaffected by his finger injury to take fourth to split the Ducati quartet, albeit more than six tenths slower than Honda stablemate Marquez.

Dani Pedrosa took seventh, ahead of Yamaha's Maverick Vinales, who is now using the prototype 2018 M1 frame he and the absent Valentino Rossi raced at Silverstone on both his bikes.

Tech 3 Yamaha duo Johann Zarco and Jonas Folger completed the top 10, the Frenchman one of several riders crashing in the session.

Suzuki duo Andrea Iannone and Alex Rins both fell, as well as the Aprilias of Aleix Espargaro and Sam Lowes, Karel Abraham's Aspar Ducati and Bradley Smith's KTM.

FP1 results

Cla#RiderBikeTimeGap
1 93 spain Marc Marquez  Honda 1'33.556  
2 51 italy Michele Pirro  Ducati 1'33.988 0.432
3 4 italy Andrea Dovizioso  Ducati 1'34.175 0.619
4 35 united_kingdom Cal Crutchlow  Honda 1'34.196 0.640
5 9 italy Danilo Petrucci  Ducati 1'34.219 0.663
6 99 spain Jorge Lorenzo  Ducati 1'34.498 0.942
7 26 spain Dani Pedrosa  Honda 1'34.545 0.989
8 25 spain Maverick Viñales  Yamaha 1'34.592 1.036
9 5 france Johann Zarco  Yamaha 1'34.702 1.146
10 94 germany Jonas Folger  Yamaha 1'34.786 1.230
11 8 spain Hector Barbera  Ducati 1'34.835 1.279
12 19 spain Alvaro Bautista  Ducati 1'34.926 1.370
13 43 australia Jack Miller  Honda 1'34.953 1.397
14 41 spain Aleix Espargaro  Aprilia 1'35.160 1.604
15 53 spain Tito Rabat  Honda 1'35.243 1.687
16 29 italy Andrea Iannone  Suzuki 1'35.306 1.750
17 42 spain Alex Rins  Suzuki 1'35.415 1.859
18 45 united_kingdom Scott Redding  Ducati 1'35.536 1.980
19 44 spain Pol Espargaro  KTM 1'35.625 2.069
20 76 france Loris Baz  Ducati 1'35.655 2.099
21 38 united_kingdom Bradley Smith  KTM 1'35.957 2.401
22 17 czech_republic Karel Abraham  Ducati 1'37.112 3.556
23 22 united_kingdom Sam Lowes  Aprilia 1'37.649 4.093

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