Sepang MotoGP: Vinales heads Rossi in damp warm-up

Vinales left it until the very end of the 20-minute session at Sepang to post his best time of 2m11.476s, which was enough to eclipse Rossi by 0.948s.

Rossi took over from Honda man Marc Marquez at the head of the order with a minute to go, and the Italian's 2m12.424s was still half a second ahead of the man in third, Jack Miller (Pramac Ducati).

Marquez slipped to fourth, 1.531s off the pace, ahead of Jorge Lorenzo's factory Ducati substitute Michele Pirro and Aprilia rider Scott Redding.

Pirro's teammate Andrea Dovizioso was seventh fastest ahead of Alex Rins on the best of the Suzukis.

Andrea Iannone only did four laps on his Suzuki and did not set a representative time, ending up almost 10s off the pace.

Only two riders attempted to go out on dry tyres on the damp track, with Johann Zarco (Tech 3 Yamaha) and Danilo Petrucci (Pramac Ducati) both venturing out on slick tyres with two minutes left.

But neither could improve their times, ending up 13th and 14th respectively.

Warm-up results:

Pos.	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	25	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	2'11.476
2	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	2'12.424	0.948
3	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	2'12.903	1.427
4	93	Marc Marquez	Honda	2'13.007	1.531
5	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati	2'13.530	2.054
6	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia	2'13.631	2.155
7	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	2'13.788	2.312
8	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	2'13.847	2.371
9	19	Alvaro Bautista	Ducati	2'13.934	2.458
10	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	2'14.305	2.829
11	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	2'14.458	2.982
12	44	Pol Espargaro	KTM	2'14.496	3.020
13	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	2'14.587	3.111
14	5	Johann Zarco	Yamaha	2'14.625	3.149
15	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Yamaha	2'14.940	3.464
16	10	Xavier Simeon	Ducati	2'14.978	3.502
17	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda	2'15.743	4.267
18	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	2'15.932	4.456
19	38	Bradley Smith	KTM	2'15.952	4.476
20	21	Franco Morbidelli	Honda	2'16.048	4.572
21	12	Thomas Luthi	Honda	2'16.141	4.665
22	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	2'16.218	4.742
23	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	2'20.917	9.441