Rins pips Quartararo by 0.036s in Barcelona MotoGP FP3 - autosport.com

Suzuki rider Alex Rins set the pace in a tight third MotoGP practice session ahead of the Catalan Grand Prix, leading rookie Fabio Quartararo by 0.036 seconds.

Rins led Petronas SRT Yamaha rider Quartararo with a 1m39.547s, the pair proving class of the pack despite doing their best laps a few minutes before the traditional late-FP3 flurry of qualifying simulation runs.

Championship leader Marc Marquez, within the combined practice top 10 by a mere tenth after Friday's action, improved his laptime right away on Saturday morning, and then surpassed Quartararo's Friday benchmark with his next attempt of 1m40.014s.

This kept the Honda rider top through the opening runs, but Quartararo soon fought back on a pair of fresh softs, logging the first sub-1m40s lap of the weekend.

On course to go faster still with his next attempt, the Frenchman was held up behind Karel Abraham's Avintia, but found himself in clear air once more the lap after and posted a 1m39.583s.

With 10 minutes to go, Suzuki's Alex Rins improved to a 1m39.547s despite running two medium tyres.

He and Quartararo would keep hold of the top two spots until the chequered flag even though neither could go better in the final minutes, with Quartararo suffering the first crash of his MotoGP career at the Turn 2 left-hander.

LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow sat outside of an automatic Q2 spot when the chequered flag flew, but his last-ditch effort proved good enough for third, 0.164s off the pace.

The factory Yamahas of Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales completed the top five, ahead of the leading Ducati of Andrea Dovizioso.

Like Crutchlow, KTM's Pol Espargaro secured a Q2 spot at the death by lapping 0.310s slower than Rins, as he led Dovizioso's teammate Danilo Petrucci.

Marquez in the end was a lowly ninth, progressing into Q2 alongside his teammate Jorge Lorenzo, although the pair had a run-in in the final minutes of the session - with Marquez showing visible frustration with Lorenzo after being seemingly baulked by the three-time champion on his flying lap.

Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller was the last rider to lap below 1m40s, but was relegated to a Q1 appearance at the last moment.

Joining him in the first segment will be rookie teammate Francesco Bagnaia, who had been on course to make Q2 after Friday, but crashed at Turn 2 on his final run and didn't improve his time.

Petronas Yamaha's Franco Morbidelli was comfortably within the combined top 10 for most of the session, but suffered a violent highside at the fast Turn 13 right-hander in the latter half of FP3.

He was conscious after hitting the ground, but had to be stretchered off and taken to the medical centre for a check-up. He has since been declared fit to continue.

Having been the fastest Honda on Friday, Japanese LCR rider Takaaki Nakagami ended up 12th in FP3, missing out on an automatic Q2 spot by just over a tenth.

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Alex Rins	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m39.547s	-	19
2	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	1m39.583s	0.036s	16
3	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	1m39.711s	0.164s	19
4	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m39.722s	0.175s	20
5	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m39.756s	0.209s	22
6	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	1m39.769s	0.222s	18
7	Pol Espargaro	KTM	KTM	1m39.857s	0.310s	18
8	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	Ducati	1m39.918s	0.371s	19
9	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m39.923s	0.376s	19
10	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	Honda	1m39.949s	0.402s	18
11	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m39.967s	0.420s	19
12	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	Honda	1m40.067s	0.520s	18
13	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	1m40.079s	0.532s	13
14	Joan Mir	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m40.158s	0.611s	19
15	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m40.366s	0.819s	17
16	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m40.454s	0.907s	19
17	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m40.582s	1.035s	13
18	Karel Abraham	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m40.761s	1.214s	17
19	Johann Zarco	KTM	KTM	1m40.942s	1.395s	16
20	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m40.996s	1.449s	20
21	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m41.023s	1.476s	17
22	Miguel Oliveira	Tech3 KTM	KTM	1m41.102s	1.555s	20
23	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m41.115s	1.568s	16
24	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 KTM	KTM	1m41.498s	1.951s	18

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2019-06-15 09:05:31Z
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