French Grand Prix, Le Mans, MotoGP, Warmup: Quartararo marks his territory, Pol Espargaró third

Un Marc Márquez who is not afraid of anything, Valentino Rossi who smells good moves, Ducati in ambush but not in the desired order, motivated French people like revengeful Suzukis, such is the appearance of MotoGP on this overcast morning of the French Grand Prix. This is the last opportunity to check certain things and decide on certain choices. But will the conditions still be the same at 14 p.m., the start time of the race? 

In the meantime, here is the situation before launching into the warmup…

Le Mans MotoGP™	2018	2019
FP1	1'32.476 Marc Márquez	1'31.986 Fabio Quartararo
FP2	1'31.936 Andrea Dovizioso	1'31.428 Maverick Viñales
FP3	1'31.619 Maverick Viñales	1'42.498 Maverick Viñales
FP4	1'32.337 Andrea Dovizioso	1'39.777 Marc Márquez
Q1	1'31.818 Danilo Petrucci	1'37.667 Valentino Rossi
Q2	1'31.185 Johann Zarco	1'40.952 Marc Márquez
warm up	1'31.868 Marc Márquez
Course	Marquez, Petrucci, Rossi
All time lap record	1'31.185 Zarco (2018)

13° in the air and 14° on a dry track but under the constant threat of a downpour, these are the conditions proposed for the 20 minutes of exercise.

The first part of the session was spent practicing changing machines in the event of a “flag to flag” competition.

In 1'35.201, Quarterly pleases the audience from the start by taking the lead. He even improved to 1'33.748. Morbidely follows as follows Miller et Vinales. Morbidely did better in 1'33.416. Crutchlow is third and regains morale after a depressing Saturday ending with the 15th time. Marquez, seventh made his sixth rescue of the meeting… He then moved to second in 1'33.404.

Pol Espargaro is fourth with his KTM at the start of the halfway point. Mir fall at turn 3. Quarterly takes the lead in 1'33.138. zarco rises to ninth.

Pol Espargaro paralyzes the public by taking the lead with his KTM in 1'32.879. It is in full soft, like Miller et Quarterly who follow him.

We enter the last five minutes and Fabio slams a 1'32.748 reference. Casa Particular in Viñales crash at turn 3. He was third. Mir falls again, this time at turn 10. Rabat does the same, at turn 3. The last minute does damage!

Under the checkered flag, Quarterly marks its territory in 1'32.483 Márquez follows as Pol I will espargaro et Crutchlow. Red closes the top 10. zarco is twelfth. Dovizioso sixth. Lorenzo 14th in front Kidneys.

French Grand Prix Le Mans MotoGP Warmup: times

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