Valencia MotoGP FP4: Marquez Lorenzo and Vinales in a close call

The last opportunity to weigh up your technical choices to better decide on which tires to use for the Sunday race has passed in MotoGP. So far, it is Lorenzo and Márquez who have shown themselves to be the most enterprising, all under the eager gaze of a Viñales who would already like to take power. Here is the result of this last test gallop before qualifying.

 

Valencia MotoGP	2015	2016
FP1	1'31.250 Marc Marquez	1'31.045 Jorge Lorenzo
FP2	1'31.111 Jorge Lorenzo	1'30.463 Jorge Lorenzo
FP3	1'30.925 Andrea Iannone	1'30.258 Marc Marquez
FP4	1'31.203 Marc Marquez
Q1	1'31.409 Alex Espargaro
Q2	1'30.011 Jorge Lorenzo
Warm Up	1'31.062 Marc Marquez
Course	Lorenzo Marquez Pedrosa
All time lap record	1'30.011 Jorge Lorenzo

 

An exercise that will not leave a good memory Dani Pedrosa who suffered a fall, fortunately not serious for his collarbone which is barely recovering from the big accident suffered in Japan. Later, Petrucci et Hernandez repeated the imposed figure of the Honda driver, the two in turn 10 a few moments apart.

The trio was then joined by Marc Márquez in person who made a mistake just over three minutes from the checkered flag in turn 6. A mistake which sent the five-time World Champion into a rage, expressing his frustration by kicking the protection inflatable from the edge of the runway once raised.

Despite this accident, Marc Márquez finished the session in the lead by just a fraction Lorenzo and Casa Particular in Viñales who will definitely have to be counted on. Iannone leads the rest of the peloton almost four tenths ahead Red et Crutchlow. Brothers I will espargaro follow while Dovizioso et Pedrosa close the top 10. Baz is nineteenth and the KTM still last.

Valencia MotoGP FP4: Chronos compilation crash.net

1. Marc Marquez ESP Repsol Honda Team (RC213V) 1m 30.906s [Lap 11/13] 316km/h (Top Speed)

2. Jorge Lorenzo ESP Movistar Yamaha MotoGP (YZR-M1) 1m 30.961s +0.055s [6/17] 315km/h
3. Maverick Vinales ESP Team Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) 1m 30.996s +0.090s [14/17] 316km/h
4. Andrea Iannone ITA Ducati Team (Desmosedici GP) 1m 31.296s +0.390s [12/13] 319km/h
5. Valentino Rossi ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP (YZR-M1) 1m 31.308s +0.402s [10/16] 316km/h
6. Cal Crutchlow GBR LCR Honda (RC213V) 1m 31.317s +0.411s [14/15] 315km/h
7. Alex Espargaro ESP Team Suzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) 1m 31.451s +0.545s [11/17] 315km/h
8. Pol Espargaro ESP Monster Yamaha Tech 3 (YZR-M1) 1m 31.509s +0.603s [17/17] 312km/h
9. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Ducati Team (Desmosedici GP) 1m 31.658s +0.752s [10/14] 319km/h
10. Dani Pedrosa ESP Repsol Honda Team (RC213V) 1m 31.786s +0.880s [12/15] 317km/h
11. Bradley Smith GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 (YZR-M1) 1m 31.889s +0.983s [8/12] 314km/h
12. Álvaro Bautista ESP Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) 1m 32.133s +1.227s [14/16] 313km/h
13. Eugene Laverty IRL Aspar MotoGP Team (Desmosedici GP14.2) 1m 32.190s +1.284s [11/13] 317km/h
14. Scott Redding GBR Octo Pramac Yakhnich (Desmosedici GP15) 1m 32.206s +1.300s [11/12] 316km/h
15. Danilo Petrucci ITA Octo Pramac Yakhnich (Desmosedici GP15) 1m 32.283s +1.377s [8/10] 314km/h
16. Hector Barbera ESP Avintia Racing (Desmosedici GP14.2) 1m 32.357s +1.451s [16/17] 312km/h
17. Stefan bradl GER Factory Aprilia Gresini (RS-GP) 1m 32.395s +1.489s [12/17] 312km/h
18. Tito Rabat ESP Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS (RC213V)* 1m 32.835s +1.929s [11/17] 316km/h
19. Loris Baz FRA Avintia Racing (Desmosedici GP14.2) 1m 32.951s +2.045s [9/15] 310km/h
20. Jack Miller AUS Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS (RC213V) 1m 32.959s +2.053s [9/12] 314km/h
21. Yonny Hernandez COL Aspar MotoGP Team (Desmosedici GP14.2) 1m 33.154s +2.248s [8/10] 311km/h
22. Mika Kallio END Red Bull KTM Factory Racing (RC16) 1m 33.597s +2.691s [13/14] 311km/h