Barcelona MotoGP: Quartararo beats Marquez in warm-up

Fabio Quartararo beat Marc Marquez in the Sunday morning MotoGP warm-up session in Barcelona, as Andrea Dovizioso lost half of his session to a brake problem.

Dovizioso couldn't begin the session along with other riders as his front brake was reportedly jammed, and the Italian had to wait for 10 of the warm-up's 20 minutes to get onto the track.

By that time Marquez was leading comfortably with a 1m39.965s, having demoted surprise early leader Aleix Espargaro.

Espargaro was still second behind Marquez and the duo kept their places until the chequered flag fell, even with the Aprilia rider having crashed at Turn 9.

But then Quartararo set a late flyer of 1m39.918s, overhauling Marquez by less than half a tenth.

Yamaha's Maverick Vinales, who got a three-place grid penalty for riding in an irresponsible manner in qualifying, was a close fourth behind Espargaro, with Alex Rins completing the top five for Suzuki.

LCR Honda's Takaaki Nakagami and Yamaha's Valentino Rossi were the last two riders within half a second of the top time, followed by factory Ducatis of Danilo Petrucci and Dovizioso.

The latter was in the lower ranks of the order for most of the session after he started running, and in the end only recorded six laps.

Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) completed the top 10, beating the works Honda of Jorge Lorenzo by 0.003s.

Pol Espargaro crashed, seconds before his brother did, at Turn 5 but still ended up as the top KTM in 16th, while another KTM rider Hafizh Syahrin also had an early fall at Turn 2.

Cla	Rider	Bike	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	12	1'39.918
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	12	1'39.965	0.047
3	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	7	1'40.173	0.255
4	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	12	1'40.188	0.270
5	Alex Rins	Suzuki	11	1'40.298	0.380
6	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	10	1'40.323	0.405
7	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	12	1'40.417	0.499
8	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	12	1'40.532	0.614
9	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	6	1'40.560	0.642
10	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	11	1'40.705	0.787
11	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	12	1'40.708	0.790
12	Joan Mir	Suzuki	12	1'40.733	0.815
13	Tito Rabat	Ducati	12	1'40.734	0.816
14	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	11	1'40.748	0.830
15	Jack Miller	Ducati	12	1'40.789	0.871
16	Pol Espargaro	KTM	7	1'40.821	0.903
17	Johann Zarco	KTM	12	1'40.976	1.058
18	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	10	1'41.076	1.158
19	Karel Abraham	Ducati	12	1'41.104	1.186
20	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	11	1'41.123	1.205
21	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	12	1'41.212	1.294
22	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	11	1'41.345	1.427
23	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	10	1'42.217	2.299
24	Hafizh Syahrin	KTM	6	1'44.444	4.526
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