Jerez MotoGP: Marquez tops warm-up, but crashes again

The Spaniard moved into the lead when he set a time of 1m38.864s early in the session, and did not give up the position for the rest of the warm-up.

Improving twice more, he ended up with a 1m38.687s time and a gap of 0.201s.

However, Marquez fell at Turn 6 in the dying stages of the session, in what was the third crash of the weekend for the reigning champion.

Pedrosa, who looked on course to demote Marquez with a fast lap, followed suit and also crashed at Turn 13 after the chequered flag fell.

Pedrosa had to settle for third as a result, with Suzuki's Andrea Iannone grabbing second.

Ducati satellite riders Jack Miller (Pramac) and Karel Abraham (Nieto) impressed in fourth and fifth, forcing factory rider Andrea Dovizioso to settle for sixth.

Pole-sitter for the Spanish GP, Cal Crutchlow was seventh ahead of top rookie Franco Morbidelli.

Johann Zarco was the top Yamaha in ninth, as the factory duo of Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi were 12th and 13th.

The top 10 was completed by the Ducati of Jorge Lorenzo.

Warm-up results

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	93	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'38.687
2	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	1'38.888	0.201
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	1'38.939	0.252
4	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	1'38.964	0.277
5	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	1'39.041	0.354
6	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'39.147	0.460
7	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'39.198	0.511
8	21	Franco Morbidelli	Honda	1'39.236	0.549
9	5	Johann Zarco	Yamaha	1'39.258	0.571
10	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	1'39.280	0.593
11	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1'39.284	0.597
12	25	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	1'39.291	0.604
13	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'39.337	0.650
14	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1'39.430	0.743
15	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	1'39.434	0.747
16	19	Alvaro Bautista	Ducati	1'39.435	0.748
17	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1'39.475	0.788
18	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia	1'39.707	1.020
19	44	Pol Espargaro	KTM	1'39.727	1.040
20	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati	1'39.775	1.088
21	38	Bradley Smith	KTM	1'39.807	1.120
22	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1'39.839	1.152
23	10	Xavier Simeon	Ducati	1'40.354	1.667
24	12	Thomas Luthi	Honda	1'40.645	1.958
25	55	Hafizh Syahrin	Yamaha	1'40.722	2.035