Assen MotoGP: Marquez fastest from Yamahas, Lorenzo falls
MotoGP champion Marc🎶 Marquez set the fastest lap time under bright sunshine on Friday morning at Assen.
The Repsol Honda rider posted a best of 1m 34.227s, just over half-a-second from the official lap record, to keep Movistar Yamaha riders Maverick Vinales (+0.177s) and Valentino Rossi (+0.286s)🍌 a🤪t bay.
Former Assen winner Jack Miller made late progress, leaping from 🐠outside the top 20 to fourth place (+0.321s) on his year-old Pramac Ducati.
MotoGP champion Marc Marquez set the fastest la⛎p time under bright su❀nshine on Friday morning at Assen.
The Repsol Honda rider ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚposted a best of 1m 34.227s, just over half-a-second from the official lap record, to keep Movistar Yamaha riders Maverick Vinales (+0.177s) and Valentino Rossi (+0.286s) at bay.
Former Assen winner Jack Miller made late progress, leaping from outside the top 20 to fourth place (+0.321s) on his 🌱year-oldꦐ Pramac Ducati.
GP18 🃏Ducati riders Andreaꦗ Dovizioso, Jorge Lorenzo and Danilo Petrucci had a new chassis to try this morning, featuring some carbon fibre bracing similar to the latest Suzuki design.
Dovizioso was quickest of the trio in fifth, with Lorenzo - winner of the last t༺wo races - seventh after a lowside fall at Turn 9 in the closing mi🔯nutes of the session. Petrucci, still sore from his Catalunya test fall, began the weekend in tenth (+0.810s).
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Between Dovizioso and Iannone was the leading Suzuki of Andrea Iannone who, like team-mate Alex Rins (15th) has an ༺updated engine this weekend, asꩲ used by wild-card Sylvain Guintoli last time in Barcelona.
Rookie Franco Morbidelli, rumoured to joining a new Petronas-backed Yamaha team in 2019, certainly seemed to be riding with his mind at ease as he featured a𒁏s high as sixth on his way to an eventu🍃al eighth place for Marc VDS Honda in FP1.
LCR's Cal Crutchlow was just behind the Italian in ninth, during a sessi𓄧on that saw fellow Englishman Bradley Smith the top KTM rider in 16th, one place ahead of the lead Aprilia of Aleix Espaꦚrgaro.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of t💖he Suzuki exit 🌟story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.