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MotoGP Catalan GP
Barcelona MotoGP: Marquez leads Quartararo in FP1
Marc Marquez led Maverick Vinales by 0.053 seconds in opening MotoGP practice for the Catalan Grand Prix, while Mugello race winner Danilo Petrucci was a low-key 18th.
Lewis Duncan
Edited: Jun 14, 2019, 9:07 AM
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Honda rider Marquez set the early pace, returning to top spot late to see out the session as the reference with a best effort of 1m40.692s.
A 1m41.221s from the championship leader put him on top as the 45-minute session began, though he was soon deposed by the Petronas SRT Yamaha of Franco Morbidelli.
The pair traded session-best laps over the next few minutes, with Marquez gaining the upper hand with a 1m40.915s.
Maverick Vinales put Marquez's time under threat in the final 17 minutes, the works Yamaha rider just 0.074s adrift with his effort, before edging ahead with a 1m40.872s.
This stood as the benchmark until the closing six minutes, when Marquez unusually returned to circuit with fresh soft front and rear slicks fitted to his RC213V, on which he deposed Vinales with a 1m40.833s.
Improving by 0.020s on his follow-up lap, his final effort of 1m40.692s cemented the Honda rider top spot in FP1.
Fabio Quartararo, fresh from arm-pump surgery, proved Marquez's closest challenger 0.111s behind in second, though looked set to go top on his SRT M1 before getting held up by Aprilia wildcard Bradley Smith late on his final lap.
Vinales was shuffled back to third as a result, with Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso and LCR Honda's Takaaki Nakagami a further 0.010s behind to complete the top five.
Jack Miller was sixth on the Pramac Ducati, while Alex Rins shadowed him on the Suzuki. Petronas SRT rider Franco Morbidelli, his Yamaha stablemate Valentino Rossi and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia) filled out the remaining places inside the top 10.
Petrucci, who looks set to secure a 2020 deal with Ducati in the coming days, was 0.932s adrift of Marquez's best in 18th in a low-key first session in Barcelona for MotoGP's newest race winner.
Jorge Lorenzo headed him by 0.018s, with the Honda rider seeking for more comfort on his Honda fitted with new ergonomic updates first tried in a trip to the marque's factory in Japan following the Italian Grand Prix.
Smith was 22nd as he begins his third wildcard weekend for Aprilia, with Suzuki test rider Sylvain Guintoli trailing him in 23rd.
Session results
Cla # Rider Bike Laps Time Gap 1 93 Marc Marquez
Honda 20 1'40.692 2 20 Fabio Quartararo
Yamaha 20 1'40.803 0.111 3 12 Maverick Viñales
Yamaha 22 1'40.872 0.180 4 4 Andrea Dovizioso
Ducati 17 1'41.030 0.338 5 30 Takaaki Nakagami
Honda 20 1'41.040 0.348 6 43 Jack Miller
Ducati 18 1'41.049 0.357 7 42 Alex Rins
Suzuki 19 1'41.142 0.450 8 21 Franco Morbidelli
Yamaha 21 1'41.160 0.468 9 46 Valentino Rossi
Yamaha 20 1'41.190 0.498 10 41 Aleix Espargaro
Aprilia 17 1'41.213 0.521 11 35 Cal Crutchlow
Honda 19 1'41.243 0.551 12 36 Joan Mir
Suzuki 21 1'41.355 0.663 13 5 Johann Zarco
KTM 18 1'41.390 0.698 14 44 Pol Espargaro
KTM 19 1'41.410 0.718 15 63 Francesco Bagnaia
Ducati 19 1'41.530 0.838 16 53 Tito Rabat
Ducati 22 1'41.603 0.911 17 99 Jorge Lorenzo
Honda 16 1'41.621 0.929 18 9 Danilo Petrucci
Ducati 18 1'41.624 0.932 19 29 Andrea Iannone
Aprilia 19 1'41.825 1.133 20 88 Miguel Oliveira
KTM 20 1'41.920 1.228 21 17 Karel Abraham
Ducati 18 1'41.972 1.280 22 38 Bradley Smith
Aprilia 17 1'42.168 1.476 23 50 Sylvain Guintoli
Suzuki 17 1'42.363 1.671 24 55 Hafizh Syahrin
KTM 18 1'42.448 1.756 View full results
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