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Thailand MotoGP: Quartararo leads Yamaha 1-2-3 in FP2
Petronas Yamaha rookie Fabio Quartararo topped the second MotoGP practice session at Buriram as Marc Marquez returned from hospital to take sixth place.
David Gruz
Edited: Oct 4, 2019, 2:27 PM
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Marquez was hospitalised after a hefty crash in FP1, but was straight out on track as FP2 began and beat Maverick Vinales' morning benchmark within three laps.
His 1m30.891s gave him a huge early lead and while several riders took in second place, for 30 minutes the field was only able to close the gap to Marquez from seven to five tenths.
As other riders put on new rear tyres for the late-session flyers, Valentino Rossi was the first one to threaten Marquez's lead with two 1m31.0s before his teammate Vinales went fastest.
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But Vinales couldn't improve for the rest of the session and Quartararo did instead, the Frenchman taking the lead with a 1m30.404s just a few seconds before the chequered flag fell.
He topped the session by 0.193s from Vinales, with his teammate Franco Morbidelli completing an all-Yamaha top three.
Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller was the best non-Yamaha rider in fourth with Rossi completing the top five.
Marquez did not improve on his early-session time and fell to sixth in the order with Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro taking an impressive seventh.
Factory Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso was eighth while his teammate Danilo Petrucci is currently out of Q2 due to being narrowly outpaced by the Suzukis of Joan Mir and Alex Rins in ninth and 10th.
KTM struggled in the session with the injured Pol Espargaro leading the team's efforts in 15th, while Marquez's works Honda teammate Jorge Lorenzo was 20th, 1.5s off the pace.
Tech 3 KTM's Miguel Oliveira fell at Turn 11, his second crash of the weekend.
Session results:
Cla # Rider Bike Time Gap 1 20 Fabio Quartararo
Yamaha 1'30.404 2 12 Maverick Viñales
Yamaha 1'30.597 0.193 3 21 Franco Morbidelli
Yamaha 1'30.625 0.221 4 43 Jack Miller
Ducati 1'30.698 0.294 5 46 Valentino Rossi
Yamaha 1'30.733 0.329 6 93 Marc Marquez
Honda 1'30.891 0.487 7 41 Aleix Espargaro
Aprilia 1'31.007 0.603 8 4 Andrea Dovizioso
Ducati 1'31.027 0.623 9 36 Joan Mir
Suzuki 1'31.086 0.682 10 42 Alex Rins
Suzuki 1'31.094 0.690 11 9 Danilo Petrucci
Ducati 1'31.115 0.711 12 63 Francesco Bagnaia
Ducati 1'31.154 0.750 13 35 Cal Crutchlow
Honda 1'31.344 0.940 14 30 Takaaki Nakagami
Honda 1'31.424 1.020 15 44 Pol Espargaro
KTM 1'31.499 1.095 16 29 Andrea Iannone
Aprilia 1'31.512 1.108 17 17 Karel Abraham
Ducati 1'31.588 1.184 18 53 Tito Rabat
Ducati 1'31.932 1.528 19 88 Miguel Oliveira
KTM 1'31.936 1.532 20 99 Jorge Lorenzo
Honda 1'31.949 1.545 21 82 Mika Kallio
KTM 1'31.991 1.587 22 55 Hafizh Syahrin
KTM 1'32.584 2.180 View full results
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