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Valencia MotoGP: Marquez leads Espargaro in wet warm-up
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez bounced back from his crash-affected qualifying by dominating a wet warm-up in Valencia, setting the pace by 0.805s.
David Gruz
Edited: Nov 18, 2018, 9:40 AM
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Marquez first took the lead with a 1m44.042s eight minutes into the session and gradually lowered the benchmark to end up with a 1m40.154s at the top of the timing screens.
For much of the session, his closest challengers were Valentino Rossi and the Pramac duo of Jack Miller and Danilo Petrucci, but Aleix Espargaro jumped up to second as the chequered flag fell.
The Aprilia rider beat Rossi by one and a half tenths with Petrucci and Miller completing the top five.
Ducati factory rider Andrea Dovizioso was over 1.4s slower than Marquez in sixth and could only beat Marc VDS Honda's Franco Morbidelli and KTM's Pol Espargaro by 10 and 17 thousandths of a second respectively.
Espargaro and his teammate Bradley Smith both spent most of the session within the top 10, the Briton ending up right behind his teammate ninth.
Suzuki's Andrea Iannone lost the first half of the session with an early crash at Turn 12 but recovered to 10th.
He led pole-sitter Maverick Vinales, his teammate Alex Rins and Dani Pedrosa, who ended his last warm-up as a Honda factory rider in 13th.
Johann Zarco could only take 16th while Jorge Lorenzo was 21st, 2.620s off the pace.
Warm-up results
Cla # Rider Bike Time Gap 1 93 
Marc Marquez Honda 1'40.154 2 41 
Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1'40.959 0.805 3 46 
Valentino Rossi Yamaha 1'41.109 0.955 4 9 
Danilo Petrucci Ducati 1'41.168 1.014 5 43 
Jack Miller Ducati 1'41.183 1.029 6 4 
Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 1'41.573 1.419 7 21 Franco Morbidelli Honda 1'41.583 1.429 8 44 
Pol Espargaro KTM 1'41.590 1.436 9 38 
Bradley Smith KTM 1'41.795 1.641 10 29 Andrea Iannone Suzuki 1'41.809 1.655 11 25 Maverick Viñales Yamaha 1'41.871 1.717 12 42 Alex Rins Suzuki 1'41.884 1.730 13 26 
Dani Pedrosa Honda 1'41.966 1.812 14 51 
Michele Pirro Ducati 1'41.987 1.833 15 45 
Scott Redding Aprilia 1'42.454 2.300 16 5 
Johann Zarco Yamaha 1'42.458 2.304 17 30 
Takaaki Nakagami Honda 1'42.469 2.315 18 19 Alvaro Bautista Ducati 1'42.490 2.336 19 6 
Stefan Bradl Honda 1'42.574 2.420 20 55 
Hafizh Syahrin Yamaha 1'42.726 2.572 21 99 Jorge Lorenzo Ducati 1'42.774 2.620 22 12 
Thomas Luthi Honda 1'42.936 2.782 23 17 
Karel Abraham Ducati 1'43.665 3.511 24 81 Jordi Torres Ducati 1'45.068 4.914
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