MotoGP Silverstone Warm Up LIVE: Aleix Espargaro makes the Aprilia shine!

Article updated continuously until the end of the session

With three pilots, Pol Espargaro, Francesco Bagnaia and fabio quartararo, holding within 3 hundredths of a second on the 5,9 kilometers of the Silverstone circuit, very clever who could give the winner of this MotoGP Grand Prix of Great Britain!

And, a priori, it is not the FP4 result in racing conditions which could help us, since we find the same three drivers in the lead, this time with the Frenchman preceding the Spaniard and the Italian. However, by consulting the analysis sheet, we can note that the Yamaha rider who completed 8 of his 9 laps under the 2'01 mark, compared to only 3 for the Honda representative and 5 for the one from Borgo Panigale.

A sign ? No doubt, but it will still be necessary to El Diablo get rid of the pack of V4s which risks locking him up at the start...

While waiting for this perhaps crucial moment of the race, the drivers who will compete have this 20-minute warm-up to fine-tune their final settings... and train for the start.

Despite the presence of a sunny appearance, the temperatures, with 16° in the air and 20° on the asphalt, are still very cool at Silverstone and constitute a difficult factor to assess when choosing tires...

By the time the 21 pilots (Lorenzo Savadori declared withdrawal) are getting ready, let's take advantage of these few minutes of live broadcast thanks to the official website MotoGP.com :

Silverstone MotoGP™	2019	2021
FP1	1'59.952 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	2'00.941 Marc Marquez (See here)
FP2	1'59.225 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'59.317 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
FP3	1'58.547 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'59.288 Jack Miller (See here)
FP4	1'59.327 Marc Márquez (See here)	2'00.002 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Q1	1'58.944 Andrea Dovizioso (See here)	1'59.288 Johann Zarco (See here)
Q2	1'58.168 Marc Márquez (See here)	1'58.889 Pol Espargaro (See here)
Warm Up	1'59.609 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	2'00.325 Aleix Espargaro (See here)
Course	Rins, Marquez, Vinales (See here)
All time lap record	1'58.168 Marc Márquez (2019) (See here)

When the red lights go out... Alex Marquez rushes first, George Martin the last.

Various choices regarding tires, but it's still too cold to pass the hard rear...

The poleman Espargaro Pol achieves the first record in 2'01.649 in front of his brother, then it is the latter who takes command of operations in 2'01.184.

At the end of his second flying lap, Fabio Quartararo moved to the top of the ranking, in 2'00.695, then 2'00.612 on the next pass.

Midway through the session, the Frenchman accelerates again and leads Joan Mir, Aleix Espargaro, Marc Márquez, Pol Espargaro, Jorge Martin, Jack Miller, Iker Lecuona, Luca Marini, Danilo Petrucci, Cal Crutchlow, Miguel Oliveira, Brad Binder, Francesco Bagnaia, Johann Zarco, Enea Bastianini, Alex Rins, Valentino Rossi , Alex Marquez and Takaaki Nakagami.

Enea Bastianini then falls without gravity at the famous and rapid turn #12.

Six minutes from the checkered flag, Takaaki Nakagami goes from last to first position, in 2'00.351 while Marc Márquez makes a mistake for the 15th time of the season, without seriousness at turn #8.

Meanwhile, Alex Espargaro achieved the best lap of the session in 2'00.325.

Jake dixon also makes a minor mistake but he has to abandon his M1.

In the end, no one passed the hard rear tire, which may not be the case this afternoon.

MotoGP British Grand Prix warm up results:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com