This morning, FP3 was a sort of apotheosis of what a MotoGP session can offer; multiple twists and turns in the ranking, falls (without seriousness) without any real explanation, figures of speech and, finally, a surprise poleman at the last second.
But all this is to be forgotten because the rain has come to sweep away all the certainties that we could have had. And, to make things worse, not a real heavy rain, but just a sort of drizzle which creates exactly the conditions that Jorge Lorenzo, one of the drivers who was trapped this morning, hates.
It's 18° and the track is 25°.
| Assen MotoGP | 2015 | 2016 |
| FP1 | 1'34.357 (Valentino Rossi) | 1'34.349 (Andrea Iannone) |
| FP2 | 1'33.450 (Dani Pedrosa) | 1'33.591 (Andrea Iannone) |
| FP3 | 1'33.167 (Valentino Rossi) | 1'33.308 (Andrea Dovizioso) |
| FP4 | 1'33.387 (Marc Marquez) | |
| Pole Positions | 1'32.627 (Valentino Rossi) | |
| Best lap of the circuit: | 1'32.627 (Valentino Rossi in 2015) |
FP4: When the green lights come on…no one moves! The minutes pass in silence on the Dutch circuit and you have to wait 10 minutes to see Marc Marquez, equipped with rain tires, takes to the track. Andrea Dovizioso and a few others are following suit.
We then turn in 1'50 and Dani Pedrosa turns out to be the fastest while Cal Crutchlow crashes at turn #10 while Jack Miller and Alvaro Bautista prefer #9. Stefan Bradl follows at #4, Scott Redding and Danilo Petrucci at #8, Dani Pedrosa at #11.
Meanwhile, Marc Marquez clocked a 1'48.628, seven tenths ahead of Valentino Rossi.
Jorge Lorenzo experiences a “Marquez Attitude” change of motorcycles, without putting a foot on the ground.
Only Michele Pirro did not complete a full lap.
| Pos | Pile | Team | Motorcycle | Km / h | HIGHLIGHTS | difference | ||
| 1 | Marc Márquez | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 288.0 | 1'48.628 | |||
| 2 | Valentino ROSSI | Yamaha Motor Racing | Yamaha | 276.6 | 1'49.326 | 0.6983 | ||
| Danilo PETRUCCI | OCTO Yakhnich bow | Ducati | 289.2 | 1'49.504 | 0.876 | |||
| 4 | Dani PEDROSA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 276.9 | 1'49.747 | 1.119 | ||
| 5 | Maverick VIÑALES | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | Suzuki | 279.9 | 1'49.868 | 1.240 | ||
| 6 | Andrea Iannone | Ducati Team | Ducati | 279.2 | 1'49.993 | 1.365 | ||
| 7 | Scott REDDING | OCTO Yakhnich bow | Ducati | 283.5 | 1'50.053 | 1.425 | ||
| 8 | Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha Motor Racing | Yamaha | 264.6 | 1'50.104 | 1.476 | ||
| 9 | Pol Espargaró | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 278.2 | 1'50.352 | 1.724 | ||
| 10 | Jack Miller | Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 268.9 | 1'50.590 | 1.962 | ||
| 11 | Tito RABAT | Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS | Honda | 272.8 | 1'50.815 | 2.187 | ||
| 12 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati Team | Ducati | 273.2 | 1'50.985 | 2.357 | ||
| 13 | Aleix Espargaro | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | Suzuki | 269.3 | 1'51.036 | 2.408 | ||
| 14 | Hector BARBERA | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 280.5 | 1'51.090 | 2.462 | ||
| 15 | Stefan BRADL | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 266.0 | 1'51.443 | 2.815 | ||
| 16 | Bradley SMITH | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 275.8 | 1'52.107 | 3.479 | ||
| 17 | Alvaro BAUTISTA | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 271.7 | 1'52.762 | 4.134 | ||
| 18 | Yonny HERNANDEZ | Aspar Team MotoGP | Ducati | 257.6 | 1'54.545 | 5.917 | ||
| Cal Crutchlow | Honda LCR | Honda | 275.2 | 1'56.270 | 7.642 | |||
| Eugene LAVERTY | Aspar Team MotoGP | Ducati | 271.0 | 1'59.490 | 10.862 | |||
| Michael PIRRO | Avintia Racing | Ducati |
