MotoGP Silverstone Warm up LIVE: Here comes the sun!

What good can a 10-minute warmup do, like the one we're going to experience during the MotoGP British Grand Prix at Silverstone?

Francis Bagnaia, modest 14th at the finish of the Sprint yesterday, provides us with at least one answer: to check that the bike with which you crashed previously is not damaged and allows you to defend your chances in the race!

In this regard, the leader of the world championship will therefore have a little verification work to do, and for the others, it will rather be a question of rediscovering the feeling they had on Friday in the dry after a Saturday spent entirely on the dry. wet.

While waiting to discover more, the big news is that the sun, certainly very shy and with only 15° in the air and 16° on the ground, has started to appear, thus allowing, perhaps, to refine adjustments to the “almost” dry for this afternoon’s Grand Prix… Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo-doo...

Before knowing if Aleix Espargaró has regained the state of grace of the first day, here is the table which summarizes the facts known until then.

 

Silverstone MotoGP™	2022	2023
FP1	1'59.893 Johann Zarco (See here)	2'00.295 Marco Bezzecchi (See here)
P	1'58.946 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'58.183 Aleix Espargaró (See here)
FP2	1'58.254 Aleix Espargaró (See here)	2'18.076 Fabio Di Giannantonio (See here)
FP4	1'59.005 Johann Zarco (See here)	XXXXXXXXXXX
Q1	1'58.609 Enea Bastianini (See here)	2'15.884 Franco Morbidelli (See here)
Q2	1'57.767 Johann Zarco (See here)	2'15.359 Marco Bezzecchi (See here)
Sprint	XXXXXXXXXXX	Alex Marquez, Bezzecchi, Viñales (See here)
Warm up	1'59.227 Maverick Viñales (See here)	2'10.207 Marco Bezzecchi (See here)
Course	Bagnaia, Viñales, Miller (See here)	(See here)
All time lap record	1'57.767 Johann Zarco 2022 (See here)

 

 

When the red lights go out... Despite our very British optimism, the track is still wet and the drivers set off on rain tires, with the notable exception of Fabio Quartararo which is in soft/soft slicks.

 

 

Some pilots, including fabio quartararo et Francis Bagnaia, stop at their box to try changing motorcycles.

At the end of the first round, Marco Bezzecchi written 211998 at the top of the table in front Raul Fernandez et John Zarco.

fabio quartararo left with his second motorcycle equipped with the new aerodynamic package.

Marco Bezzecchi lowers the benchmark to 2'10.207, this time ahead Fabio Di Giannantonio, Brad Binder, Francesco Bagnaia, Jack Miller and Marc Marquez.

Maverick Vinales also comes out with slicks, but there is only one minute left before the end of the session.

 

 

Conversely, fabio quartararo now uses rain tires.

In the last seconds, we note the improvements ofAugusto Fernandez, Miguel Oliveira, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez.

 

 

British Grand Prix warmup results at Silverstone:

 Classification credit: MotoGP.com