MotoGP Styria FP4 LIVE: Fabio Quartararo above the rest!

Article updated continuously until the end of the session

This morning, on the completely dry track of the Red Bull Ring in Austria, the MotoGP riders were able to take advantage of the soft tires saved yesterday during FP2 in the wet to re-establish a hierarchy more in line with the expectations of the experts...

Francesco Bagnaia, Fabio Quartararo, Maverick Vinales, Jorge Martin, Joan Mir, Johann Zarco, Marc Marquez, Aleix Espargaro, Jack Miller and Takaaki Nakagami thus pre-qualified directly for Q2, while Pol Espargaro, Dani Pedrosa, Alex Rins, Alex Márquez, Brad Binder, Miguel Oliveira, Iker Lecuona, Danilo Petrucci, Valentino Rossi, Enea Bastianini, Lucas Marini, Lorenzo Savadori and Cal Crutchlow will have to try to get back in if they want to appear on the first four rows of the starting grid for the Styrian Grand Prix.

In the meantime, this 4-minute FP30, very illusory in the sense that rain is expected tomorrow, will serve, among other things, for Suzuki drivers to familiarize themselves with their brand new Ride Height Device, and to all the others to continue testing their new Brembo ventilated discs.

As the 23 pilots prepare with temperatures of 26° in the air and 37° on the ground, let's take advantage of these few live moments thanks to the official website MotoGP.com :

MotoGP™ Red Bull Ring	2020	2021
FP1	1'23.859 Jack Miller (See here)	1'23.805 Takaaki Nakagami (See here)
FP2	1'23.638 Pol Espargaro (See here)	1'31.304 Lorenzo Savadori (See here)
FP3	1'23.456 Joan Mir (See here)	1'23.114 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)
FP4	1'24.450 Takaaki Nakagami (See here)	1'23.816 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Q1	1'23. 609 Johann Zarco (See here)
Q2	1'23.580 Pol Espargaro (See here)
Warm-up	1'24.126 Andrea Dovizioso (See here)
Course	Oliveira, Miller, Pol Espargaro (See here)
All time lap record	1'23.027 Marc Marquez 2019

When the red lights go out... Joan mir rushes first, Maverick Vinales et fabio quartararo the last.

Almost all tires are in nature...

At the end of the first round, Maverick Vinales is the fastest in 1'24.581 before handing over the lead to his teammate Fabio Quartararo on the next pass, in 1'23.936.

Joan mir makes a mistake at turn #9, at high speed but without apparent bodily harm.

Dani Pedrosa impresses by taking his KTM to provisional third place while Fabio Quartararo continue to improve his times, this time in 1'23.816.

At mid-session, the hierarchy is made up of Fabio Quartararo, 2/10 ahead Maverick Vinales, 6/10 ahead Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez, 9/10 ahead Jack Miller, and a second ahead Johann zarco and Jorge Martin, Takaaki Nakagami, Alex Márquez, Pol Espargaro, Miguel Oliveira, Danilo Petrucci, Brad Binder, Luca Marini, Valentino Rossi, Aleix Espargaro, Alex Rins, Francesco Bagnaia, Lorenzo Savadori, Joan Mir, Enea Bastianini, Iker Lecuona and Cal Crutchlow .

While most pilots stop, Miguel Oliveira takes the opportunity to move up to fifth position, Francis Bagnaia in the seventh.

“Pecco” continues its momentum and achieves the third then the second time while Marc Marquez rises to fourth position.

Iker Lecuona minor fall, for the third time this weekend. This is the moment when KTM announces that he will no longer be part of the team next year, Raul Fernandez having just been made official at Tech3 in 2022.

Four minutes from the checkered flag, Jorge Martin goes back to seventh place but his time is immediately canceled.

At the last moment, Joan mir snatches fourth position and Jack Miller moved up from 10th to eighth place.

 

 

Styrian Grand Prix MotoGP FP4 Standings at Red Bull Ring:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com