Practice report

Sachsenring MotoGP: Quartararo edges Marquez in FP1

Fabio Quartararo topped the opening MotoGP session at the Sachsenring, narrowly beating Marc Marquez, who dominated most of FP1.

Marquez, unbeaten at the Sachsenring in various classes of grand prix racing since 2009, established a big lead five minutes into the session and better his laptime a few more times.

He ended his run with 1m21.464s, with only Alex Rins also able to break the 1m22s barrier with a 1m21.967s

The top two remained unchanged until the final two minutes of the session when Yamaha duo Valentino Rossi and Quartararo moved in front of Rins.

The Frenchman was then able to edge Marquez out by 0.074s as well, and topped FP1 with a 1m21.390s, before ending his session with an off-track excursion at Turn 8. Marquez was second, with Rossi beating Rins by 0.003s for third.

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Maverick Vinales was only the third Yamaha in fifth, over eight tenths off the pace, with Andrea Dovizioso leading Ducati's efforts in sixth.

Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller took seventh ahead of the Aprilia of Andrea Iannone and the injured LCR duo Takaaki Nakagami and Cal Crutchlow.

Pol Espargaro was the top KTM in 11th, just over one second off the pace.

Newly re-signed Ducati works rider Danilo Petrucci was 15th, while Stefan Bradl, Jorge Lorenzo's replacement at Repsol Honda, kicked off his home round in 17th.

Francesco Bagnaia was the only rider to crash, the Pramac rider falling at Turn 8.

Cla	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	22	1'21.390
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	24	1'21.464	0.074
3	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	24	1'21.964	0.574
4	Alex Rins	Suzuki	25	1'21.967	0.577
5	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	24	1'22.251	0.861
6	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	18	1'22.282	0.892
7	Jack Miller	Ducati	23	1'22.365	0.975
8	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	22	1'22.397	1.007
9	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	20	1'22.415	1.025
10	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	20	1'22.439	1.049
11	Pol Espargaro	KTM	20	1'22.458	1.068
12	Karel Abraham	Ducati	22	1'22.487	1.097
13	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	27	1'22.512	1.122
14	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	20	1'22.543	1.153
15	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	22	1'22.566	1.176
16	Johann Zarco	KTM	23	1'22.705	1.315
17	Stefan Bradl	Honda	24	1'22.729	1.339
18	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	16	1'22.729	1.339
19	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	24	1'22.762	1.372
20	Joan Mir	Suzuki	25	1'22.856	1.466
21	Tito Rabat	Ducati	29	1'22.898	1.508
22	Hafizh Syahrin	KTM	22	1'23.957	2.567
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