Practice report

Le Mans MotoGP: Quartararo leads Marquez in warm-up

SRT Yamaha rookie Fabio Quartararo set the pace in the Sunday morning MotoGP warm-up session at Le Mans, followed by pole-sitter Marc Marquez.

Quartararo and teammate Franco Morbidelli led for nearly the entire session, with the duo taking turns in first place in the opening half.

KTM's Pol Espargaro took a shock lead with seven minutes to go, but Quartararo reclaimed the lead soon afterwards, and improved two more times before the session came to an end.

He eventually ended up with a 1m32.483s, leading Marquez by 0.142s, both riders setting their best times after the chequered flag fell.

Espargaro took an impressive third for KTM, followed by LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow and Maverick Vinales, whose session ended early with a fast crash at Turn 3.

Andrea Dovizioso was the top Ducati in sixth, more than half a second off the pace, with Morbidelli ending up seventh.

French Grand Prix front-row starters Jack Miller and Danilo Petrucci were eighth and ninth respectively, with Valentino Rossi completing the top 10.

Jorge Lorenzo and Alex Rins were a lowly 14th and 15th respectively, the latter's teammate Joan Mir crashing twice in 20 minutes.

Avintia Ducati's Tito Rabat was another rider to fall, and the Spaniard ended the session dead last.

Session results

Cla	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Gap	km/h
1	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	13	1'32.483		162.905
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	12	1'32.625	0.142	162.655
3	Pol Espargaro	KTM	12	1'32.705	0.222	162.515
4	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	13	1'32.861	0.378	162.242
5	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	10	1'32.963	0.480	162.064
6	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	12	1'33.008	0.525	161.986
7	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	13	1'33.019	0.536	161.966
8	Jack Miller	Ducati	13	1'33.100	0.617	161.825
9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	11	1'33.125	0.642	161.782
10	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	12	1'33.202	0.719	161.648
11	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	12	1'33.414	0.931	161.282
12	Johann Zarco	KTM	12	1'33.422	0.939	161.268
13	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	13	1'33.462	0.979	161.199
14	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	12	1'33.511	1.028	161.114
15	Alex Rins	Suzuki	12	1'33.688	1.205	160.810
16	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	12	1'33.692	1.209	160.803
17	Joan Mir	Suzuki	5	1'33.872	1.389	160.495
18	Karel Abraham	Ducati	13	1'33.874	1.391	160.491
19	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	13	1'34.213	1.730	159.914
20	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	11	1'34.460	1.977	159.496
21	Hafizh Syahrin	KTM	12	1'34.812	2.329	158.903
22	Tito Rabat	Ducati	6	1'35.883	3.400	157.129
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