MotoGP Valencia: Lorenzo sets Friday pace, Marquez falls

Jorge Lorenzoꦑ fuelled his hopes of a 2017 Ducati victory by leading Friday practice for the Valencia MotoGP season finale.

Just twelfth in a chilly morning session, the tripl🐭e MotoGP champion ruled the faster afternoon outing with a best lap ꧅time of 1m 30.640s, set on soft tyres during his final run.

That put the Spaniard, winner of last year's event on his Yamaha f𝔉arewell, 0.122s cleꦍar of Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa, whose best lap came while using a medium front and soft rear.

Lorenzo sets Friday pace at Valencia, Marquez falls

Jorge Lorenzo 𒁃fuelled his hopes of a 2017 Ducati victory by leading Friday practice for the Valencia♚ MotoGP season finale.

Just twelfth in a chilly morning session, the triple MotoGP champion ruled the 🏅faster afternoon outing wꦦith a best lap time of 1m 30.640s, set on soft tyres during his final run.

That put the Spania🐓rd, winner of last year's event on his Yamaha farewell, 0.122s clear of Repsol Honda's Dan♔i Pedrosa, whose best lap came while using a medium front and soft rear.

Lorenzo's team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, who starts the final round 21 points from title lไeader Marc Marquez, completed a top three covered by 0.309s. The Italian also used th൩e medium-soft tyres to set his quickest lap.

Marquez, who only need𒀰s an eleventh-place finish (updated) even if Dovizioso wins on Sunday, suffered his 26th fall of the season on the way to fifth place in both sessions. Marquez ran the hard front and soft rear throughout FP2.

Between Dovizioso🀅 and Marquez was top rookie and independent rider Johann Zarco who put his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 machine 0.414s from Lorenzo, using&nbsꦍp;soft-soft tyres.

Jack Miller (Marc VDS Honda), Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda), wild-card ✱Michele Pirro (Ducati), Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha) and Pol Espargaro (KTM) completed t🌠he FP2 top ten.

Both Pol Espargaro and older brother Aleix (Aprilia) fell at the end of FP2. Suzuki's Andrea Iannone, a surprise fastest in this morning's FP1 session, also walked♉ away from a big tumble, ending the session down in 18th.

Iannone, Miller, Pol Espargaro, Mika ไKallio and Danilo Petrucci failed to beat their best morning lap time.

But Iannone was fourth fastest on combined lap times, nudging Rossi outside of the top ten, with team-mate Maverick Vinales in💧 eleventh.

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