MotoGP Argentina Warm Up LIVE: Marco Bezzecchi in the rain!

Watching the different sessions of the Argentine MotoGP Grand Prix, on the not very grippy but abrasive circuit of Termas de Rio Hondo, you wonder what the point of a 10-minute warm-up, like the one we are going to experience, is?

Let's listen Francis Bagnaia who answered this question after his victory in Portugal : « A 10 minute warmup is simply there to understand if the bike is ready. For example for me, I changed to the second bike yesterday in FP3 and I didn't use the first one anymore during the day, so it's just to understand if everything is going well and to get in a little condition, but 10 minutes is nothing. Of course, after the Sprint, doing just 10 minutes is better than nothing before a different race. »

Here is the Sunday morning control session, in anticipation of the race which will take place at 19:00 p.m. over 25 laps and whose starting grid will be made up of Alex Marquez,  Marco Bezzecchi, Francis Bagnaia, Franco Morbidelli, Maverick Vinales, Johann zarco, Luca marini, George Martin, Alex Espargaro et fabio quartararo for the first 10 places, just like for the wild Sprint on Saturday.

The weather forecast showed a nice morning rain and the sky is currently fifty shades of gray above a completely wet track. Temperatures are still rather low at 17° in the air and 19° on the ground.

Following his fall yesterday, Joan Mir has been declared unfit to run, and so 17 pilots are preparing…

Argentine GP MotoGP™	2022	2023
P1	1'39.028 Takaaki Nakagami (See here)	1'39.207 Maverick Vinales (See here)
P2	1'38.244 Aleix Espargaró (See here)	1'38.518 Aleix Espargaró (See here)
FP	Canceled (Air freight)	1'41.029 Pecco Bagnaia (See here)
FP4	Canceled (Air freight)	XXXXXXX
Q1	1'38.501 Pol Espargaró (See here)	1'47.317 Alex Marquez (See here)
Q2	1'37.688 Aleix Espargaró (See here)	1'43.881 Alex Marquez (See here)
Sprint	XXXXXXX	B. Binder, Bezzecchi, Marini (See here)
Warm up	1'38.648 Aleix Espargaro (See here)	1'45.354 Marco Bezzecchi (See here)
Course	A.Espargaro, Martin, Rins (See here)	(See here)
All time lap record	1'37.683 Marc Márquez 2014

When the red lights go out... everyone sets off on rain tires.

Some pilots, including Francis Bagnaia et Raul fernandez, firstly carry out an exchange of motorbikes with a view to a flag to flag race.

Meanwhile, Franco Morbidelli, again, registered the first reference in 1'48.687.

Takaaki Nakagami takes over in 1'47.285 then Marco Bezzecchi registered 1'46.568 ahead Jack Miller.

On the next pass, the Italian scorpion stings again in 1'45.699 and finishes by sinking its sting in 1'45.354.

And it's already over!

The VR46 pilot precedes his teammate Luca Marini and both men outperformed the exercise specialist, Jack Miller.

The pilots are now heading towards the bus which shows them to the brave public…

Results of the warm up of the MotoGP Argentine Prix on the Termas de Río Hondo circuit:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com