MotoGP LIVE Le Mans France Warm Up: Danilo Petrucci recalls his victory from last year!

Yamaha or Ducati? Dry or rain? These are the two main questions that arose at the start of the last day of the French Grand Prix, even if they were far from being the only ones, starting with "are we witnessing the return to the forefront of Marc Márquez, or even Honda? ".

The Bugatti circuit and its delicate weather plunge us into total uncertainty as to the progress and result of a race which will take place over 27 laps from 14 p.m. And that's good !

Even if the hierarchy established yesterday in qualifying will probably only last a few seconds, we will still remember that the first three rows of the starting grid are made up of Fabio Quartararo, Maverick Vinales, Jack Miller, Franco Morbidelli, Johann Zarco, Marc Marquez, Takaaki Nakagami, Pol Espargaro and Valentino Rossi.

While waiting to discover the famous Sarthe series “What will the weather be like in two minutes?” » that the 22 actors we will play this afternoon, we are preparing, with this 20-minute warm-up, to experience a particularly rainy episode, with a track completely soaked by rain and temperatures of 12° in the air and 13° in water.

Obviously, the stakes are less important during this last free practice session, but with already 19 falls in the premier category since the start of the weekend (77 in total, not counting those in MotoE), it will be especially important not to Don't relax your concentration!

Let's enjoy these few minutes of live broadcast thanks to the official website MotoGP.com:

Here are the past references:

MotoGP™ Le Mans	2020	2020
FP1	1'43.804 Bradley Smith (See here)	1'38.007 Jack Miller (See here)
FP2	1'34.133 Jack Miller (See here)	1'31.747 Johann Zarco (See here)
FP3	1'32.319 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'40.736 Marc Marquez (See here)
FP4	1'32.528 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'32.857 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Q1	1'31.952 Danilo Petrucci (See here)	1'42.550 Lorenzo Savadori (See here)
Q2	1'31.315 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'32.600 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Warm Up	1'32.869 Franco Morbidelli (See here)	1'44.515 Danilo Petrucci (See here)
Course	Petrucci, Alex Marquez, Pol Espargaro (See here)
All time lap record	1'31.185 Johann Zarco (2018)

When the red lights go out... Joan mir is the first to set off on the track.

Even though the rain has stopped temporarily, everyone is obviously on grooved tyres, mostly soft tyres.

We train straight away for a flag to flag race…

The first fall is suffered by Johann zarco, at turn #8, without gravity.

It is followed by that of Joan mir at the Dunlop chicane.

During this time, and while around half of the drivers remained in the box, Maverick Vinales recorded the best time in his first flying lap in 1'49.609 before improving on the next pass in 1'48.163 in front Jack Miller, Fabio Quartararo and Miguel Oliveira.

In the wake, Miguel Oliveira takes command in 1'48.021 ahead Danilo Petrucci, but it's Valentino Rossi who then put his name at the top of the ranking in 1'47.191 before entrusting the leadership to Iker Lecuona in 1'47.165: everything is definitely going very quickly!

Jack Miller takes first position, quickly surpassed by Maverick Vinales in 1'46.405 while Espargaro Pol makes a mistake at the Dunlop chicane.

Jack Miller regains the advantage in 1'46.003 halfway through the session.

The hierarchy is then composed of the Australian in front of Miguel Oliveira, Marc Márquez, Valentino Rossi, Maverick Vinales, Fabio Quartararo, Iker Lecuona, Franco Morbidelli, Aleix Espargaro, Danilo Petrucci, Luca Marini, Pol Espargaro, Takaaki Nakagami, Francesco Bagnaia, Alex Rins, Lorenzo Savadori, Brad Binder, Alex Márquez , Enea Bastianini, Tito Rabat, Johann Zarco and Joan Mir.

Nobody stops during this warm up and Miguel Oliveira regains command in 1'45.479 while Marc Márquez is in turn trapped like Dunlop.

Jack Miller confirms his claims in 1'45.144 but Danilo Petrucci takes the best time 1'44.944 ahead of another KTM, that of Miguel Oliveira.

In the end, it was last year's winner, now with Tech3 KTM Factory Racing, who won in 1'44.515!

Warm up standings for the French MotoGP Grand Prix at Le Mans:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com