Sachsenring MotoGP: Home hero Folger leads warm-up
Local rider Jonas Folger set the pace in the MotoGP warm-up at Sachsenring, the Tech 3 Yamaha rider leading Honda's Dani Pedrosa.
Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images
With rain falling overnight, the session started in damp conditions, but the track was dry enough from the get-go for the field to use slick tyres.
Folger led the majority of the session, taking first place in the beginning, with only Cal Crutchlow and Aleix Espargaro managing to briefly demote the German.
Eventually, Folger's time of 1m21.635s with seven laps to go left him with a gap of over two tenths. Pedrosa halved his advantage, but nobody else came close to overhauling the Tech 3 rider.
Espargaro was third for Aprilia, ahead of former teammate Maverick Vinales, as Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow completed a top six split by less than three tenths.
KTM duo Mika Kallio and Pol Espargaro were seventh and ninth, sandwiching Valentino Rossi.
Pole-sitter Marc Marquez was 10th, the Spaniard making two mistakes at the very end of the session.
Most of the warm-up was incident-free before Loris Baz and Alvaro Bautista both crashed, the latter falling at T12.
Warm-up results
Cla | # | Rider | Bike | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 94 | Jonas Folger | Yamaha | 1'21.635 | |
2 | 26 | Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 1'21.785 | 0.150 |
3 | 41 | Aleix Espargaro | Aprilia | 1'21.830 | 0.195 |
4 | 25 | Maverick Viñales | Yamaha | 1'21.857 | 0.222 |
5 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | 1'21.880 | 0.245 |
6 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda | 1'21.929 | 0.294 |
7 | 36 | Mika Kallio | KTM | 1'22.036 | 0.401 |
8 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | 1'22.039 | 0.404 |
9 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | KTM | 1'22.072 | 0.437 |
10 | 93 | Marc Marquez | Honda | 1'22.101 | 0.466 |
11 | 5 | Johann Zarco | Yamaha | 1'22.240 | 0.605 |
12 | 45 | Scott Redding | Ducati | 1'22.307 | 0.672 |
13 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Suzuki | 1'22.368 | 0.733 |
14 | 19 | Alvaro Bautista | Ducati | 1'22.377 | 0.742 |
15 | 42 | Alex Rins | Suzuki | 1'22.386 | 0.751 |
16 | 43 | Jack Miller | Honda | 1'22.459 | 0.824 |
17 | 8 | Hector Barbera | Ducati | 1'22.503 | 0.868 |
18 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ducati | 1'22.618 | 0.983 |
19 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Honda | 1'22.655 | 1.020 |
20 | 22 | Sam Lowes | Aprilia | 1'22.717 | 1.082 |
21 | 76 | Loris Baz | Ducati | 1'22.737 | 1.102 |
22 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati | 1'22.787 | 1.152 |
23 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Ducati | 1'22.868 | 1.233 |
24 | 38 | Bradley Smith | KTM | 1'22.906 | 1.271 |
Be part of Motorsport community
Join the conversationShare Or Save This Story
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
Top Comments