San Marino Grand Prix Misano MotoGP Q.2: Lorenzo beats his record, Miller impresses and Marquez cracks.

Pedrosa and Morbidelli showed the qualities of a track ready for a qualifying final capable of shaking the official track record. It is the prerogative of a Lorenzo who achieved it in 2016 on a Yamaha and who is in great shape on his Ducati. Will he succeed himself? Vinales however showed during FP4 that this battle would not just be an affair between Ducati… So, for whom is the leading position in this San Marino Grand Prix?

Before answering this question, here is a reminder of the facts in table…

 

Misano MotoGP™	2017	2018
FP1	1'33.556 Marc Marquez	1'32.608 Andrea Dovizioso
FP2	1'33.231 Danilo Petrucci	1'32.198 Andrea Dovizioso
FP3	1'32.958 Marc Marquez	1'32.788 Johann Zarco
FP4	1'33.338 Andrea Dovizioso	1'32.633 Maverick Vinales
Qualification 1	1'33.563 Alvaro Bautista	1'32.389 Dani Pedrosa
Qualification 2	1'32.439 Maverick Vinales
Warm Up	1'48.170 Marc Marquez
Course	Marquez, Petrucci, Dovizioso

 

25° in the air, 40° on the track, the conditions remain unchanged. And for some, there is change to give…

In 1'32.016, Marc Marquez announces the color… But Lorenzo achieves the feat of succeeding the record in 1'31.763. Dovizioso, Crutchlow et Miller close the top 5 at Red who is ahead Vinales. Zarco is tenth.

The last five minutes begin and Marquez fell heavily at turn 15. But he quickly got up and tried to return to his pit box as quickly as possible. In 1'31.916, Miller impresses with his GP17 and makes us forget his teammate, future official driver in red who is Petrucci. The latter is seventh.

Marquez joins his family with three minutes remaining... And he goes back into battle with his second motorcycle!

Red goes fourth ahead Dovizioso. And 12 thousandths of Marquez ! But Crutchlow is nine thousandths closer and is therefore three thousandths better than the Doctor…

Dovizioso go third and push Marquez on the second line. Lorenzo beats his young record in 1'31.629. Crutchlow fall and will be sixth between Red et Marquez which remains in the top 5. Dovizioso is disappointed because fourth and therefore in the second row. Vinales, in fact will start third. Behind a very good Miller and an untouchable Lorenzo. zarco is ninth behind Petrucci. Pedrosa et Morbidely bring up the rear.

San Marino Misano Grand Prix MotoGP Q.2: times

1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	1'31.629
2	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	1'31.916	0.287	0.287
3	25	Maverick VIÑALES	Yamaha	1'31.950	0.321	0.034
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'32.003	0.374	0.053
5	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	1'32.016	0.387	0.013
6	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'32.025	0.396	0.009
7	46	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	1'32.028	0.399	0.003
8	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	Ducati	1'32.136	0.507	0.108
9	5	johann zarco	Yamaha	1'32.250	0.621	0.114
10	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1'32.338	0.709	0.088
11	26	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	1'32.369	0.740	0.031
12	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Honda
		Q1 Results:
Q2	26	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	1'32.389
Q2	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Honda	1'32.454	0.065	0.065
13	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	1'32.566	0.177	0.112
14	51	Michael PIRRO	Ducati	1'32.624	0.235	0.058
15	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Ducati	1'32.792	0.403	0.168
16	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1'33.084	0.695	0.292
17	38	Bradley SMITH	KTM	1'33.085	0.696	0.001
18	6	Stefan BRADL	Honda	1'33.361	0.972	0.276
19	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Honda	1'33.437	1.048	0.076
20	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1'33.502	1.113	0.065
21	45	Scott REDDING	Aprilia	1'33.572	1.183	0.070
22	10	Xavier SIMEON	Ducati	1'33.705	1.316	0.133
23	12	Thomas LUTHI	Honda	1'33.755	1.366	0.050
24	17	Karel ABRAHAM	Ducati	1'33.812	1.423	0.057
25	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Yamaha	1'34.080	1.691	0.268
26	23	Christophe PONSSON	Ducati	1'37.180	4.791	3.100