MotoGP Misano 1 Warm Up LIVE: The Suzukis come to join the party!

They have the speed, they have the numbers, they play at home on their privileged testing ground and in front of a local audience entirely committed to their cause: since the start of the Gran Premio MotoGP Octo di San Marino e della Riviera weekend di Rimini, the Ducatis left their mark on the Misano World Marco Simoncelli circuit, also lowering the absolute track record there during qualifying.

In the middle of this red armada, fabio quartararo seems very lonely on the handlebars of his Yamaha M1, also the only in-line four-cylinder in the top 8. How will the leader of the world championship be able to manage the situation? With 53 points ahead of Francis Bagnaia and five races to go, there is no question of letting the GP21s get too far ahead on their home turf, especially as Joan mir, third in the championship with 57 points, even if he will only start from the fourth row, is a specialist in great comebacks...

The Devil is counting on this 20-minute warm-up to validate a setting tested only with worn tires and further raise its level of play against the bagnaia, Miller, Martin and other zarco : let's trust the French champion who has shown maturity to match his talent since the start of the year!

The weather, but also the two Hondas Espargaro Pol et Marc Márquez, the two ApriliasAlex Espargaro et Maverick Vinales and the two Suzukisalex rins et Joan mir, will also have their say…

In the meantime, this 20-minute warm-up is the last opportunity to fine-tune the settings and validate the chosen tires. It will take place under a beautiful blue sky, with temperatures of 25° in the air and 21° on the asphalt...

As the 24 drivers prepare, let's take advantage of these few minutes of live coverage thanks to the official website MotoGP.com :

Misano-1 MotoGP™	2020	2021
FP1	1'31.721 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'32.666 Maverick Vinales (See here)
FP2	1'31.628 Brad Binder (See here)	1'42.097 Johann Zarco (See here)
FP3	1'31.127 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'31.936 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)
FP4	1'32.005 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'32.197 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Q1	1'31.559 Jack Miller (See here)	1'31.876 Enea Bastianini (See here)
Q2	1'31.077 Maverick Vinales (See here)	1'31.065 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)
Warm Up	1'32.402 Alex Marquez (See here)	1'32.521 Alex Rins (See here)
Course	Vinales, Mir, P.Espargaro (See here)
All time lap record	1'31.077 Maverick Vinales 2020	1'31.065 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)

When the red lights go out... Franco Morbidelli Don't let anyone get going first. Like he usually does, fabio quartararo let the others go ahead, while Marc Marquez stay in the box.

At the pneumatic level, we notice that Takaaki Nakagami et Espargaro Pol are breaking in rain tires, no doubt in anticipation of a race in the wet, as is more or less announced from 14 p.m....

Jack Miller establishes the reference in 1'33.911, immediately surpassed by Johann zarco in 1'33.758.

fabio quartararo reply, immediately surpassed by Michele Pirro before the French regained the advantage in 1'32.878: the war between Ducati and El Diablo is well declared!

Marc Marquez comes out after 4 turns to do a flag-to-flag test.

Halfway through the session, the Frenchman, who is now running in 1'32.725, precedes Michele Pirro, Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia, Aleix Espargaro, Joan Mir, Brad Binder, Miguel Oliveira, Alex Rins and Alex Márquez.

In the wake, alex rins takes second position but fabio quartararo drives the point home in 1'32.623.

Three minutes from the checkered flag, alex rins however, took command in 1'32.521.

At this moment, Marc Márquez still appears last, 1,7 seconds behind the leader... what is happening in box #93?

On the penultimate passage, Joan mir climbs back into third position before conceding it to Francesco Bagnaia.

San Marino Grand Prix MotoGP warm up results:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com