Silverstone MotoGP: Quartararo leads Marquez in warm-up

Of the pair, Honda rider Marquez was first to take the lead early on but Quartararo quickly demoted him with the first sub-two minute time of the session.

Two improvements from Marquez saw him reclaim first place by less than a tenth with five minutes left on the clock.

But Petronas SRT rider Quartararo was also able to go faster and did a 1m59.609s during the final minute of warm-up, beating Marquez by 0.07s.

Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso was best of the rest, three tenths slower than Quartararo, with front-row starter Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) moving up to fourth with a last-minute lap, having spent most of the session outside of the top 10.

Suzuki's Alex Rins was fifth with Maverick Vinales bringing a third Yamaha into the top six.

Local hero Cal Crutchlow's progress in the session was halted with an early pitstop but the LCR Honda rider recovered into the top 10, taking seventh from Quartararo's teammate Franco Morbidelli.

Ducati duo Danilo Petrucci and Jack Miller (Pramac) completed the top 10, the latter nearly crashing at Stowe and having to go through the gravel.

Honda rider Jorge Lorenzo was last, 3.474s off the benchmark time.

Warm-up results

Cla	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1'59.609
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'59.679	0.070
3	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'59.910	0.301
4	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'59.995	0.386
5	Alex Rins	Suzuki	2'00.053	0.444
6	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	2'00.059	0.450
7	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	2'00.163	0.554
8	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	2'00.243	0.634
9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	2'00.257	0.648
10	Jack Miller	Ducati	2'00.301	0.692
11	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	2'00.370	0.761
12	Pol Espargaro	KTM	2'00.410	0.801
13	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	2'00.442	0.833
14	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	2'00.532	0.923
15	Johann Zarco	KTM	2'00.682	1.073
16	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	2'01.368	1.759
17	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	2'01.464	1.855
18	Tito Rabat	Ducati	2'01.580	1.971
19	Hafizh Syahrin	KTM	2'01.737	2.128
20	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	2'01.867	2.258
21	Karel Abraham	Ducati	2'02.755	3.146
22	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	2'03.083	3.474
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