Quartararo outpaces Vinales in Japan MotoGP FP2 - autosport.com

Petronas SRT Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo set the pace in the Friday afternoon MotoGP practice session ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Maverick Vinales.

Newly-crowned six-time world champion Marc Marquez's FP2 programme was slightly delayed because his team mistakenly put on a hard rear tyre at the start of the session, but he swiftly took the lead when he rejoined with a soft rear.

He held a sizeable advantage over the field in the first half of the session, before Ducati factory rider Danilo Petrucci managed to go slightly faster with a 1m45.686s with 22 minutes remaining.

Petrucci stayed ahead until the dying stages when his team-mate Andrea Dovizioso outpaced him by seven hundredths, before FP1 pacesetter Vinales went half a second quicker on the works Yamaha.

Vinales's top time was eventually smashed by Quartararo as the session ended, the rookie setting a 1m44.764s before going off into the gravel at Turn 1.

Behind Vinales and Marquez, Dovizioso was the top Ducati in fourth but over six tenths slower than Quartararo.

Vinales' team-mate Valentino Rossi left his fast lap to the dying stages of the session, but was able to snatch fifth, with SRT's Franco Morbidelli bringing a fourth Yamaha into the top six.

Pramac's Jack Miller led the works Ducati of Petrucci in seventh, despite the former's session ending with a crash at Turn 9.

Joan Mir was ninth as both he and 11th-placed Suzuki teammate Alex Rins, who doesn't have an automatic Q2 spot at the moment, had off-track excursions during the session.

Aleix Espargaro put his Aprilia 10th, beating Rins by 0.009s, currently securing him a place in Q2 with Saturday's crucial FP3 session set to be hit by bad weather.

Marquez was the only Honda in the top 10, with Cal Crutchlow, Takaaki Nakagami and Jorge Lorenzo only taking 12th, 15th and 17th respectively.

Tech 3 KTM rider Miguel Oliveira suffered a fast crash at Turn 12 midway through the session, but walked away unscathed despite a violent roll through the gravel.

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	1m44.764s	-	19
2	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m45.085s	0.321s	18
3	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m45.100s	0.336s	17
4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	1m45.414s	0.650s	19
5	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m45.466s	0.702s	17
6	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	1m45.562s	0.798s	20
7	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m45.577s	0.813s	15
8	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	Ducati	1m45.619s	0.855s	18
9	Joan Mir	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m45.641s	0.877s	20
10	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m45.721s	0.957s	15
11	Alex Rins	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m45.730s	0.966s	18
12	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	1m45.804s	1.040s	17
13	Pol Espargaro	KTM	KTM	1m46.020s	1.256s	17
14	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m46.330s	1.566s	18
15	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	Honda	1m46.557s	1.793s	15
16	Karel Abraham	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m46.576s	1.812s	17
17	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	Honda	1m46.661s	1.897s	17
18	Miguel Oliveira	Tech3 KTM	KTM	1m46.800s	2.036s	16
19	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m46.969s	2.205s	15
20	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m47.158s	2.394s	19
21	Mika Kallio	KTM	KTM	1m47.312s	2.548s	18
22	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 KTM	KTM	1m47.974s	3.210s	17
-	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	Suzuki	-	-	17

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2019-10-19 06:08:27Z
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