Italian Grand Prix, Mugello, MotoGP, FP4: Quartararo takes over Mugello!

There is no doubt that during this 4-minute FP30 following an explosive FP3, Andrea Dovizioso, Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, Michele Pirro and Álex Rins, respectively placed 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 20th in the combined first 3 sessions, will have in mind the battle that will await them at the end of this session to qualify for Q2.

For others, it will above all be a matter of setting up your bike in racing configuration, that is to say with a full tank of fuel and high temperatures which are currently 25 degrees in the air and 43 degrees in the air. ground.

Here are the references available before this 4rd MotoGP session of the weekend in Tuscany:

Mugello MotoGP™	2018	2019
FP1	1'47.253 Andrea Iannone (See here)	1'47.558 Marc Márquez (See here)
FP2	1'46.735 Andrea Iannone (See here)	1'46.732 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)
FP3	1'46.439 Marc Márquez (See here)	1'46.056 Danilo Petrucci (See here)
FP4	1'47.548 Andrea Iannone (See here)	1'46.799 Fabio Quartararo
Q1	1'46.771 Jack Miller (See here)
Q2	1'46.208 Valentino Rossi (See here)
warm up	1'47.080 Andrea Iannone (See here)
Course	Lorenzo, Dovizioso, Rossi (See here)
All time lap record	1'46.208 Valentino Rossi (2018)	1'46.056 Danilo Petrucci (See here)

It is now a tradition: Jorge Lorenzo sets off first at the opening of the track to have the field clear in front of him.

High temperatures tend to favor the choice of hard tires at the rear, but we see that Michelin has made great progress in this area by noting that Fabio Quartararo, Alex Rins and Jorge Lorenzo have opted for a soft one: the entire range of the French manufacturer can be used whatever the conditions, which was not the case in the past.

The session begins with the fall of Karel Abraham at turn 8 on his launch lap.

Maverick Vinales is the fastest during the first flying lap, in 1'48.131.

In the next passage, Marc Márquez lowers the provisional reference to 1'47.262 despite a little heat at turn 12, just ahead Andrea Dovizioso, then improves to 1'46.960. The Honda driver leaves his mark on this session, and thus displays his pretensions for the race.

Behind, we now find Cal Crutchlow to 3 tenths, then Andrea Dovizioso, Maverick Viñales, Franco Morbidelli, Aleix Espargaró, Danilo Petrucci, Valentino Rossi, Michele Pirro and Jack Miller.

Halfway through the session, Alex Rins is 12nd, Pol Espargaro 13th to 8 tenths, fabio quartararo 14th, Jorge Lorenzo 19th and Johann zarco 21e.

On resumption, Jack Miller, then 8th, jumped to 2nd place with his yellow Lamborghini Pramac.

7 minutes from the checkered flag, Fabio Quartararo, who abandoned his soft rear tire in favor of a medium, places his Yamaha 2/10 behind Marc Márquez. The French driver continued his effort on the following lap, lighting the first 3 sectors in red before closing to within 7 thousandths of the Honda driver.

Many of them then improve their times, starting with Alex Rins (3e) Takaaki Nakagami (6e) and Danilo Petrucci (7e).

2 minutes from the checkered flag, Maverick Vinales moved from 9th to 3rd position but his time was canceled for excessively crossing the track limit.

We then had a Honda in front of two Yamahas and a Suzuki: where are the Ducatis?

In racing configuration, it is not the productions of Borgo Panigale which respond but rather Maverick Vinales which, in the next round, this time legitimately regains its 3rd position.

In extremis, the 2 Yamahas of fabio quartararo et Maverick Vinales are positioned first and second!

FP4 classification Italian Grand Prix MotoGP:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com