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Brno MotoGP: Quartararo leads Petronas 1-2 in FP2
Fabio Quartararo pipped Petronas Yamaha MotoGP teammate Franco Morbidelli by 0.007 seconds in second practice for the Czech Grand Prix at Brno.
Lewis Duncan
Edited: Aug 7, 2020, 1:23 PM
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Factory Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci set the initial pace in FP2 with a 1m58.583s, though this was quickly beaten by KTM’s Pol Espargaro with a 1m57.583s.
Championship leader Quartararo deposed the factory KTM man with a 1m57.564s, before Joan Mir leaped up to top spot on the Suzuki with a 1m57.445s.
This stood as the benchmark until the closing six minutes, when most of the field opted for a time attack on soft rubber.
Morbidelli blitzed the field with a 1m56.509s, and this lap would remain intact until after the chequered flag, when teammate Quartararo started lighting up the timing screens.
Quartararo was repeatedly caught on camera visibly angry, and was shaking his head after firing in the 1m56.502s lap which put him into top spot at the end of the session.
Tech 3’s Miguel Oliveira completed the top three, 0.048s off top spot at a circuit where KTM comes armed with recent data courtesy of a private test with Dani Pedrosa last month.
Avintia Ducati's Johann Zarco leaped up to fourth late on to end the day as top Ducati runner, with Maverick Vinales fifth on the works Yamaha.
Mir was shuffled back to sixth ahead of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro, while his KTM-mounted brother Pol was a further 0.018s adrift in eighth.
FP1 pacesetter Takaaki Nakagami was ninth and top Honda runner on the year-old LCR RC213V, with Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller completing the top 10.
Neither works team Ducati riders currently occupy a provisional Q2 place, with Petrucci heading Andrea Dovizioso in 14th – the latter not bettering his time from FP1.
Valentino Rossi was 12th on the sister works team Yamaha ahead of the still-injured Suzuki of Alex Rins, with Alex Marquez 16th on the Honda after suffering a technical issue early in the session.
Marc Marquez’s stand-in Stefan Bradl once again propped up the field, some 1.922s off the pace as he gears up for his first MotoGP race in almost a year.
Pramac’s Francesco Bagnaia was absent from FP2 while undergoing checks in hospital on a fractured knee suffered in a crash in FP1. He will sit out the rest of the Czech GP weekend and will be out of action at next week’s Austrian GP.
Czech GP - Second practice results:
Cla # Rider Bike Time Gap 1 20 Fabio Quartararo
Yamaha 1'56.502 2 21 Franco Morbidelli
Yamaha 1'56.509 0.007 3 88 Miguel Oliveira
KTM 1'56.550 0.048 4 5 Johann Zarco
Ducati 1'56.583 0.081 5 12 Maverick Viñales
Yamaha 1'56.668 0.166 6 36 Joan Mir
Suzuki 1'56.876 0.374 7 41 Aleix Espargaro
Aprilia 1'57.041 0.539 8 44 Pol Espargaro
KTM 1'57.059 0.557 9 30 Takaaki Nakagami
Honda 1'57.073 0.571 10 43 Jack Miller
Ducati 1'57.109 0.607 11 33 Brad Binder
KTM 1'57.279 0.777 12 46 Valentino Rossi
Yamaha 1'57.290 0.788 13 42 Alex Rins
Suzuki 1'57.354 0.852 14 9 Danilo Petrucci
Ducati 1'57.620 1.118 15 4 Andrea Dovizioso
Ducati 1'57.635 1.133 16 73 Alex Marquez
Honda 1'57.688 1.186 17 53 Tito Rabat
Ducati 1'57.777 1.275 18 35 Cal Crutchlow
Honda 1'57.865 1.363 19 38 Bradley Smith
Aprilia 1'58.161 1.659 20 27 Iker Lecuona
KTM 1'58.378 1.876 21 6 Stefan Bradl
Honda 1'58.424 1.922 63 Francesco Bagnaia
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