MotoGP LIVE Aragón-2 FP4: Maverick Viñales wins at the last minute!

Article updated until the end of the session.

This morning, the Yamahas regained the leadership they had shown last week, with however the undeniable presence of the Hondas of Takaaki Nakagami and Álex Márquez, but the surprise really comes from the two KTMs of the Tech3 team who managed to surpass the two Suzuki in the second part of the top 10.

We cannot see that the latter is getting tighter each time, today spread over less than 4 tenths of a second: in these conditions, there is no question of making the slightest error which would immediately turn into a disaster!

The pilots Franco Morbidelli, Takaaki Nakagami, Fabio Quartararo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Márquez, Iker Lecuona, Álex Rins, Miguel Oliveira, Cal Crutchlow and Joan Mir now have 30 minutes to prepare their bike for racing conditions with a full tank, but also to be as efficient as possible for Q2...

The sky is still pristine and temperatures have risen to 21° in the air and 30° on the ground as the 21 drivers prepare to hit the track again.

Now it's time to go live!

Aragón-2 MotoGP™	2019	2020
FP1	1'49.866 Maverick Viñales (See here)	1'48.184 Alex Márquez (See here)
FP2	1'47.771 Maverick Viñales (See here)	1'47.782 Takaaki Nakagami (See here)
FP3	1'47.859 Franco Morbidelli (See here)	1'47.333 Franco Morbidelli (See here)
FP4	1'48.551 Franco Morbidelli (See here)	1'47.931 Maverick Vinales (See here)
Q1	1'47.605 Danilo Petrucci (See here)
Q2	1'47.076 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Warm up	1'48.651 Takaaki Nakagami
Course	Alex Rins, Alex Marquez, Joan Mir
All time lap record	1'46.635 Marc Márquez (2015)

When the red lights go out... Surprise, it's not Franco Morbidelli but Francesco Bagnaia who rushes first!

With the rise in temperatures, all drivers use a soft rear tire with the exception of Bradley Smith in medium. For the front, everyone is on medium except forAlex Rins hear.

It is precisely the latter who is the fastest during the first flying lap, in 1'49.857 before being surpassed by Maverick Vinales in 1'49.450.

In the next passage, we find Takaaki Nakagami in 1'48.427 then the Japanese driver continued his effort in 1'48.389.

After 10 minutes, Joan mir lowers the benchmark to 1'48.366 in his fourth flying lap.

Stefan bradl minor fall at turn #2 followed immediately by Francis Bagnaia at #12.

Pol Espargaro third, precedes his brother Aleix as well as the first Ducati driven by Jack Miller.

Midway through the session, Alex Marquez put a hard front tire on his Honda.

The hierarchy then presents Joan mir before Takaaki Nakagami, Pol Espargaró, Aleix Espargaró, Jack Miller, Maverick Viñales, Álex Márquez, Franco Morbidelli, Brad Binder, Johann Zarco, Fabio Quartararo, Miguel Oliveira, Andrea Dovizioso, Álex Rins, Iker Lecuona, Francesco Bagnaia, Cal Crutchlow, Bradley Smith , Stefan Bradl, Danilo Petrucci and Tito Rabat.

Iker Lecuona improves to 12th position while Joan mir lines up the quick turns.

Six minutes from the end of the session, Takaaki Nakagami goes to the top of the ranking in 1'48.085, now leaving an unusual gap of 3/10 on the Suzuki rider.

Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo have fitted a medium rear tire on their Yamaha…

At the very end of the session, Maverick Vinales and Franco Morbidelli are the only two capable of dethroning Takaaki Nakagami. In the end, it was the official driver who set a 1'47.931 which will remain unbeaten.

FP4 classification of the Teruel MotoGP Grand Prix:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com