Lorenzo tops warm-up practice as Marquez bins it

For the first time this Misano weekend Marc Marquez hasn’t topped the timesheets. During the 20 minute warm-up practice, today’s polesitter crashed out at the Tramonto during his last flying lap as he was trying to beat rival Jorge Lorenzo. Like a cat with 9 lives, Marquez got up uninjured as he did in FP4.

Lorenzo seemed to be in fine form this morning posting a best lap in 1’33″832 leaving Marquez almost eight tenths adrif, while Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi were third and fourth respectively.

Just under the one second difference was Alvaro Bautista who finish ahead of a resurgent Cal Crutchlow. Stefan Bradl was seventh followed by the two factory Ducatis of Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso

The tenth spot went to the always impressive Aleix Espargaro who left behind him Pramac Ducati’s Andrea Iannone (11th) and Michele Pirro (12th).

Hiroshi Aoyama also crashed his BQR-FTR Kawasaki in the finale of the session.

 

2013 MotoGP Misano Warm Up results:

01- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1’33.832
02- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.706
03- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.844
04- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.992
05- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 0.995
06- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.005
07- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 1.069
08- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.183
09- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.263
10- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 1.465

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