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Misano MotoGP: Quartararo leads the way in FP1

Petronas Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo led the way in the opening MotoGP practice session for the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano.

Fabio Quartararo, Petronas Yamaha SRT

Fabio Quartararo, Petronas Yamaha SRT

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The Frenchman, whohad topped both days of the Misano test two weeks prior, outpaced Marc Marquez by nearly four tenths courtesy of a late fresh-tyre run - but had already spent most of FP1 in first place by then.

Quartararo and Marquez took turns in the lead in the opening spell of the session, the French rookie ending up on a 1m33.516s to Marquez's 1m33.575s at the conclusion of their first runs on the medium rear tyre.

Yamaha works rider Maverick Vinales was the only rider to run the pair close for most of FP1, less than a tenth off, with the rest of the pack another four tenths off the pace.

Marquez lapped within 0.013s of Quartararo's benchmark just after the halfway point in the session, while the Petronas Yamaha rider came up just a hundredth short of improving his laptime.

Quartararo then equipped a pair of fresh mediums for his final run, and fired in a 1m33.153s, before nearly slipping off his bike at the fast Curvone right-hander on his next attempt.

Marquez and Vinales made up the top three behind him, with wildcard Michele Pirro picking up fourth place as the lead Ducati.

Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro led brother Pol in fifth, the latter towing Marquez on his fastest lap.

Franco Morbidelli and Valentino Rossi made it four Yamahas in the top nine, the pair split by Ducati's Danilo Petrucci, with Rossi running Yamaha's new brake cover, exhaust and carbon swingarm.

Avintia Ducati's Tito Rabat led works rider Andrea Dovizioso by 0.013s in 10th, but crashed late on in the session at Turn 5, nearly collecting Honda's Jorge Lorenzo in the process after he overtook the three-time world champion.

The two other riders to crash - Aprilia's Andrea Iannone and Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller - both went down at the Quercia left-hander.

Tech 3 KTM's Miguel Oliveira and Lorenzo, two riders who pulled out of the Misano test with injury, were 20th and 21st respectively, both just over two seconds off the pace.

Session results:

Cla # Rider Bike Time Gap
1 20 France Fabio Quartararo
Yamaha 1'33.153
2 93 Spain Marc Marquez
Honda 1'33.529 0.376
3 12 Spain Maverick Viñales
Yamaha 1'33.599 0.446
4 51 Italy Michele Pirro
Ducati 1'33.704 0.551
5 41 Spain Aleix Espargaro
Aprilia 1'33.762 0.609
6 44 Spain Pol Espargaro
KTM 1'34.002 0.849
7 21 Italy Franco Morbidelli
Yamaha 1'34.039 0.886
8 9 Italy Danilo Petrucci
Ducati 1'34.149 0.996
9 46 Italy Valentino Rossi
Yamaha 1'34.182 1.029
10 53 Spain Tito Rabat
Ducati 1'34.261 1.108
11 4 Italy Andrea Dovizioso
Ducati 1'34.274 1.121
12 42 Spain Alex Rins
Suzuki 1'34.284 1.131
13 63 Italy Francesco Bagnaia
Ducati 1'34.324 1.171
14 36 Spain Joan Mir
Suzuki 1'34.374 1.221
15 43 Australia Jack Miller
Ducati 1'34.487 1.334
16 35 United Kingdom Cal Crutchlow
Honda 1'34.512 1.359
17 30 Japan Takaaki Nakagami
Honda 1'34.568 1.415
18 5 France Johann Zarco
KTM 1'34.760 1.607
19 29 Italy Andrea Iannone
Aprilia 1'34.990 1.837
20 88 Portugal Miguel Oliveira
KTM 1'35.264 2.111
21 99 Spain Jorge Lorenzo
Honda 1'35.292 2.139
22 17 Czech Republic Karel Abraham
Ducati 1'35.320 2.167
23 55 Malaysia Hafizh Syahrin
KTM 1'36.180 3.027

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