Austria MotoGP: Barbera leads Dovizioso in first practice

Barbera jumped into the lead with a 1m24.631s during the final minute and, while Dovizioso immediately responded, his time was erased due to track limits.

Dovizioso previously stole the lead from Honda's Marc Marquez with 15 minutes left on the clock, his time then going unbeaten until the very end.

The Ducati works rider settled for second, followed by Dani Pedrosa (Honda) and Maverick Vinales (Yamaha), both less than two tenths behind.

Marquez only improved on his early benchmark by eight hundredths of a second and ended up fifth.

Tech 3 Yamaha's Johann Zarco took sixth, followed by Pramac Ducati duo Danilo Petrucci and Scott Redding, who is set to join Aprilia for 2018.

Factory Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo and LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow completed the top 10.

KTM's Pol Espargaro was a positive 11th, edging Valentino Rossi out by 0.007s.

Andrea Iannone and Aleix Espargaro were the top Suzuki and Aprilia in 14th and 15th respectively.

KTM's wildcard entrant Mika Kallio, who is taking part in his second MotoGP round of the 2017 season, was 17th, as team regular Bradley Smith took 21st.

FP1 results:

Pos.	#	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	8	Hector Barbera	Ducati	1'24.631
2	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'24.719	0.088
3	26	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	1'24.744	0.113
4	25	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	1'24.752	0.121
5	93	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'24.881	0.250
6	5	Johann Zarco	Yamaha	1'24.895	0.264
7	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1'24.972	0.341
8	45	Scott Redding	Ducati	1'25.008	0.377
9	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	1'25.038	0.407
10	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'25.229	0.598
11	44	Pol Espargaro	KTM	1'25.244	0.613
12	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'25.251	0.620
13	94	Jonas Folger	Yamaha	1'25.282	0.651
14	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	1'25.608	0.977
15	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1'25.697	1.066
16	76	Loris Baz	Ducati	1'25.709	1.078
17	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	1'25.712	1.081
18	53	Tito Rabat	Honda	1'25.724	1.093
19	22	Sam Lowes	Aprilia	1'25.740	1.109
20	43	Jack Miller	Honda	1'25.753	1.122
21	38	Bradley Smith	KTM	1'25.785	1.154
22	19	Alvaro Bautista	Ducati	1'25.903	1.272
23	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1'26.014	1.383
24	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	1'26.239	1.608