Le Mans MotoGP: Vinales leads damaged Marquez in FP3
Maverick Vinales put Yamaha on top of the timesheets with a new Le Mans l🧔ap record of⛦ 1m 31.619s during Saturday morning's FP3 session.
At one stage M1 riders were filling th꧑e top three places courtesy of Vinales, Valentino Rossi and Monster Yamaha Tech3's Johann Zarco.
But Marc Marquez ultimately split the inline four-cylinder machines, despite riding with a damaged Repsol Honda in the form of a missing wing from his fairing🐠 – and a hole in the elbow of his leathers - after remounting following a low-side fall.
Maverick Vinales put Yamaha on top of the timesheets with a new Le Ma𝔍ns lap record of 1m 31.619s during Saturday morning's FP3 seꦍssion.
At one stage M1 riders were filling the top three places court⛄esy of Vinales, Valentino Rossi and Monster Yamaha Tech3's Johann Zarco.
But Marc Marౠquez ultimately split the inline four-cylinder machines, despite riding with a damaged Repsol Honda in the form of a missing wing from his fairing – and a hole in the elbow of his leathers - after remounting following a low-side fall.
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10 out of 10 for effort though - he gav🐎e it a g♌ood go!
Marquez was 0.155s slower than Vinales, with Rossi and home star Zarco all 𓂃within 0.247s of the top.
Jorge Lorenzo improved from tenth on Friday to fifth this morning to lead the Ducati chalꦺlenge, albeit with Pramac's Jack Miller just 0.083𝔉s behind on the GP17.
Miller and team-mate Danilo Petrucci are the favourites to take over from Lorenzo should the Spaniard leave. B🍨ut Petrucci (12th) - like Cal Crutchlow (11th) and Dani Pedrosa (16th) - were left outside the top ℱten this morning and will need to take part in Qualifying 1.
Completing the top ten this morning behind Miller🍃 were Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia), Tito Rabat (Avintia Ducati), Andrea Iannone (Suzuki) and Crutchlow (LCR Honda). However Friday pace seಞtter Andrea Dovizioso (15th) remained fifth overall, despite not improving this morning, bumping Crutchlow out of the combined top ten
The sunny but cool conditions again caught out many🧔 riders - fortunately without injury - including Marquez, Pedrosa, Thomas Luthi, Bradley Smith, Pol Espargaro and Xavier Simeon.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc M👍arquez’s injury issues.
