MotoGP Assen FP1 LIVE: Jack Miller sets the record straight in the wet

After dominating the Catalan and German Grands Prix, fabio quartararo arrives at TT Circuit Assen, the 11th round of the 2022 MotoGP World Championship, with a comfortable lead of 34 points on his closest rival, Aleix Espargaró. Better, El Diablo has an advantage of 61 units over Johann zarco, 72 on Enea Bastianini, short-lived leader at the start of the season, 90 on the incredibly consistent Brad Binder and 91 on Francis Bagnaia, main rival defeated in 2021 and on track to be defeated in 2022.

On a circuit where Yamaha fluids have always performed well, just like the French rider himself (2nd in Moto3 in 2015,2, 2nd in Moto2018 in 3, 2019rd in MotoGP in 2020 and winner last year after a pandemic break in XNUMX ), all the lights are green for this last round before the summer break. "There's just" securing big points before a well-deserved vacation, except that at the pinnacle of motorcycle racing, it's always easier said than done.

We can nevertheless count on the confidence and maturity of the French driver to achieve this objective, even if the rain expected to play spoilsport this weekend did indeed arrive this Friday.

Note again thatalex rins will be examined by the doctors after this FP1 (a curious procedure given that the latter had declared him fit in Germany) and that Lorenzo Savadori will participate as a wild card for Aprilia.

While waiting to discover more, as the 25 drivers prepare for this first 45-minute free practice session in the wet, with temperatures of 20° in the air and 21° on the ground, let's take advantage of these some live moments thanks to the official website MotoGP.com :

Here are the past references:

Assen MotoGP™	2021 (New asphalt)	2022
FP1	1'33.072 Maverick Vinales (See here)	1'42.589 Jack Miller (See here)
FP2	1'33.241 Maverick Vinales (See here)
FP3	1'32.336 Maverick Vinales (See here)
FP4	1'32.513 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
QP1	1'32.541 Johann Zarco (See here)
QP2	1'31.814 Maverick Vinales (See here)
Warm Up	1'32.569 Maverick Vinales (See here)
Course	Quartararo, Vinales, Mir (See here)
All time lap record	1'31.814 Maverick Vinales (See here)

When the red lights go out... Franco Morbidelli takes up the good old tradition of setting off first on the track while the wet track does not change the habit of fabio quartararo to take it last, this time in the company of Jack Miller.

In terms of tires, everyone is on soft rain tires at the rear while Luca Marini, Enea Bastianini, Fabio Di Giananantonio, Francesco Bagnaia and Marco Bezzecchi, all Ducati riders, chose the rain medium at the front.

After Fabio Quartararo in Germany, Enea Bastianini is equipped with the shoulder camera this weekend…

At the end of the first flying round, it is Jack Miller who set the first reference in 1'48.348 before having to catch the front axle of his Ducati which was slipping away.

Marco Bezzecchi inaugurates the list of falls, without gravity and at turn #1 while Fabio Quartararo recorded the best time in 1'48.011.

In the next passage, Franco Morbidelli achieves 1'46.707 and this time is first improved by Fabio Quartararo, then by Jack Miller in 1'46.133.

One more passage and Franco Morbidelli regains the advantage in 1'45.857 before handing it over to Jack Miller in 1'45.172.

The Australian then lowered the benchmark to 1'44.523, at the end of his fifth flying lap.

After the first quarter of an hour, Enea Bastianini minor fall when braking for turn #1.

This is the moment when most drivers return to their box with a hierarchy made up of Jack Miller, Johann Zarco, Fabio Quartararo, Franco Morbidelli, Francesco Bagnaia, Alex Márquez, Miguel Oliveira, Stefan Bradl, Lorenzo Savadori, Pol Espargaro, Jorge Martin, Enea Bastianini, Takaaki Nakagami, Aleix Espargaro, Luca Marini, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Andrea Dovizioso, Joan Mir, Marco Bezzecchi, Brad Binder, Raul Fernandez, Alex Rins, Remy Gardner, Darryn Binder and Maverick Vinales.

Meanwhile, roughly halfway through the session, John Zarco has not stopped and is getting closer to 47/1000 of Jack Miller.

The other drivers seem in no hurry to return to the track to join Maverick Vinales who will explore the gravel without falling.

13 minutes from the checkered flag, the Catalan's perseverance and he registered the third time, between the two Frenchmen.

Everyone returns to the track 10 minutes from the end of the session, starting with Remy gardner who takes eighth provisional position. Francis Bagnaia also produced his effort and achieved the best time in 1'44.308.

Maverick Vinales takes command in 1'44.128 but has to give it up to Espargaro Pol which achieves 1'43.915.

Jack Miller replies in 1'43.069 ahead Johann Zarco, Pol Espargaro and Francesco Bagnaia.

Four minutes before the flag drops, that doesn't stop alex rins to climb into second position, then his teammate Joan mir to achieve the best time in 1'43.051, an ephemeral leadership immediately undermined by Espargaro Pol in 1'42.891.

No question of stopping there for Jack Miller who scores 1'42.589!

Alex Marquez et Miguel Oliveira improve at the last minute and in the end the provisional top 10 is made up of Jack Miller, Joan Mir, Pol Espargaro, Alex Marquez, Aleix Espargaro, Miguel Oliveira, Alex Rins, Johann Zarco, Jorge Martin and Maverick Vinales.

MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix FP1 results at TT Assen:

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