MotoGP Portugal Warm Up LIVE: Fabio Quartararo surfs the waves of Portimao!

Will it rain or not rain this afternoon? This is the question that everyone is asking in the paddock after a particularly rainy start to the Portuguese Grand Prix on the Portimao circuit located on the edge of the Atlantic.

To illustrate how quickly the situation and the situation can change at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, it only takes 10 laps from the moment the rain stops before we can switch to the slicks! This promises in the event of a flag to flag race…

During a qualification who left marks on many bodies, Johann zarco was able to do well by obtaining pole position while others, like Marc Marquez ou Fabio Quartararo, suffered the horrors of an excellent time canceled because of the yellow flags.

Suffice to say that the race which will take place at 14 p.m. this afternoon is completely open, especially since by some clever pleasure the weather forecasts do not predict "almost" no rain today: the whole thing is the quantity of "almost », quantified between 0,1 and 0,2 mm of water possibly around 14 p.m.! Nothing to bother the surfers at Portimao beach, much more the MotoGP riders on the grid…

While waiting to discover more, at a time when the 25 drivers, or rather the 24 due to the injured Raul Fernandez's withdrawal, are preparing for this 20-minute warm-up, under a generally gray sky but a dry track with temperatures 15° in the air and 14° on the ground, let's enjoy these few live moments thanks to the official website MotoGP.com :

 

MotoGP™ Portimao	4-2021	11-2021	2022
FP1	1'42.127 Maverick Vinales (See here)	1'40.192 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'50.666 Marc Marquez (See here)
FP2	1'39.866 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'39.390 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'50.707 Pol Espargaro (See here)
FP3	1'39.044 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'39.202 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'50.552 Miguel Oliveira (See here)
FP4	1'39.788 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'39.665 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'50.750 Miguel Oliveira (See here)
Q1	1'39.253 Marc Marquez (See here)	1'39.130 Johann Zarco (See here)	1'46.316 Alex Marquez (See here)
Q2	1'38.862 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'38.725 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'42.003 Johann Zarco (See here)
Warm Up	1'39.721 Jack Miller (See here)	1'39.711 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'40.278 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Course	Quartararo, Bagnaia, Mir (See here)	Bagnaia, Mir, Miller (See here)
All time lap record	1'38.862 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'38.725 Francesco Bagnaia 2021 (See here)

When the red lights go out... alex rins rushes first, Enea Bastianini the last.

In terms of pneumatics, almost all the solutions are in nature…

At the end of the first flying round, Fabio Quartararo registered the first reference in 1'43.010 in front George Martin et Maverick Vinales who benefits from the Frenchman's wheel.

In the next passage, it is the Catalan who leads the way in 1'41.113 in front The Devil.

Marco Bezzecchi fall at turn #13 while Marc Márquez takes third position.

Jack Miller then achieved the best time in 1'41.065 but the duo Quartararo/Vinales improves jointly, the Yamaha rider provisionally winning in 1'40.492.

fabio quartararo continues his effort but fails in the fourth sector. However, given his qualification and this warm-up, we can think that the Nice native will be able to fight for a place on the podium...
Besides, always taking Maverick Vinales equipped with a soft rear tire in its wheel, the number 20 lowers the reference to 1'40.278 on the next pass.

The hierarchy is then established as follows: Fabio Quartararo, Jack Miller, Maverick Vinales, Joan Mir, Alex Márquez, Alex Rins, Aleix Espargaro, Brad Binder, Jorge Martin and Marc Márquez for the top 10. Johann zarco appears in 10th position, Francis Bagnaia in 14th and Enea Bastianini in 21st.

Three minutes from the checkered flag, John Zarco rises to fifth position while George Martin made a mistake in turn #15.

One minute from the checkered flag, Jack Miller produces his effort but ultimately only gets closer at 58/1000 to fabio quartararo.

In the last round, Alex Marquez, who was present throughout this warm up, provisionally took third position before being dethroned by his brother who took advantage of the wheel ofAlex Espargaro.

Warm up results of the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix at the Algarve International Autodrome in Portimão:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com