Red Bull Ring MotoGP: Marc Marquez dominates practice three - autosport.com

Honda rider Marc Marquez dominated the third MotoGP practice at the Red Bull Ring, beating Maverick Vinales by over three tenths of a second.

Marquez, who had a carbon-reinforced chassis on both of his bikes, beat his own benchmark from Friday soon after the session began with a 1m23.788s as he and Valentino Rossi locked out the top two for most of the Saturday morning session.

Rossi was only 11th in the combined order after Friday, but was quickly able to move into the top 10 with a time of 1m24.250s.

The rest of the field started to cut Marquez's into sizeable gap towards the end of the running, with Andrea Dovizioso and Fabio Quartararo taking turns in second place before Vinales went quickest.

But Marquez then switched to a new soft rear tyre and then quickly retook the lead by over three tenths with a 1m23.251s.

There was no further response from Vinales afterwards and it was Marquez leading the Yamaha man as the session ended.

The factory Ducatis of Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo Petrucci set identical times to take third and fourth, just 0.002s slower than Vinales.

Yamaha riders Quartararo and Rossi completed the top six, while the third Ducati GP19 of Jack Miller (Pramac) secured seventh.

Takaaki Nakagami was eighth for LCR Honda ahead of the sole Suzuki of Alex Rins and KTM's Pol Espargaro - who set his best time while following Miller and Marquez.

That put Espargaro ahead of Cal Crutchlow by half a tenth and consigned the Briton into Q1.

Miguel Oliveira was an impressive sixth on Friday on the Tech3 KTM but he dropped to 12th in the combined order after practice three.

Jorge Lorenzo's works Honda stand-in Stefan Bradl was the only rider who failed to improve his overall laptime in the session, ending up only 20th.

Practice three times

Pos	Rider	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Marc Marquez	Honda	1m23.251s	-	25
2	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	1m23.591s	0.340s	23
3	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1m23.593s	0.342s	22
4	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1m23.593s	0.342s	23
5	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha	1m23.637s	0.386s	24
6	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1m23.702s	0.451s	24
7	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	1m23.749s	0.498s	22
8	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	1m23.764s	0.513s	23
9	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1m23.974s	0.723s	26
10	Pol Espargaro	KTM	1m24.016s	0.765s	22
11	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	1m24.068s	0.817s	22
12	Miguel Oliveira	Tech3 KTM	1m24.095s	0.844s	23
13	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha	1m24.166s	0.915s	21
14	Johann Zarco	KTM	1m24.333s	1.082s	22
15	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Ducati	1m24.472s	1.221s	20
16	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	1m24.480s	1.229s	19
17	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1m24.616s	1.365s	21
18	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	1m24.658s	1.407s	21
19	Karel Abraham	Avintia Ducati	1m24.740s	1.489s	21
20	Stefan Bradl	Honda	1m24.770s	1.519s	23
21	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 KTM	1m24.775s	1.524s	18