Fast all weekend aside from MotoGP qualifying in Austin, Vinales has confirmed the notion that Aprilia🎶’s race pace is very strong after setting mu♔ltiple quickest times. 

Last to leave pit ✅lane, the king of COTA Marc Marquez joined the on-track action with just half the session remaining. 

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Immediately getting down to a searingly hot pace were cham💙pionship leader Aleix Espargaro and team-mate Vinales. 

The two factory Aprilia riders set nearly identical ไ2:04.8s lap times, while Bastianini put his Ducati into P3. 

Despite windy conditions affecting several riders, warm-🍷up specialist Takaaki Nakagami took over at the top. 

Pole sitter for today’s race🧜, Jorge Martin looked set to better the LCR Honda rider’s time,💫 but after failing to do so, it was instead Bastianini who eventually did. 

Eager to show their potential once again, Vinales and Espargaro bounced back to make it a 1-2 after setting the firstꦬ sub 2m 04s 𓂃laps of the session.

Bastianini then split the two Apr♑ilia riders with a time of 2:03.756s. 

Towards the back of the field, rookie Raul Fernandez suffered a crash at turn 12, making him 🔜the only rider to do so in warm-up. 

ꦏFranco Morbidelli’s tricky weekend continued as the 20ꦇ20 MotoGP runner-up completed just two laps. 

After improving yet again on his penultimate lap, Vina𒉰les managed to hold on for top spot in front oﷺf Bastianini and Nakagami.

Linin꧑g-up third for today’s Grand Prix, Francesco Bagnaia made a good start to race day as he finished fourth, one place ahead of last weekend’s race winner Espargaro. 

Joan Mir was the top 🦹Suzuki in sixth, while Johann Zarco, Marquez, Rins and Quartararo rounded out the ♓top ten.

KTM's dreadful weekend continued as Brad Binder was only 15th, although team-mate 𒀰Miguel Oliveira, who was been has𝐆 way off the pace even compared to the South African was 22nd. 

Race Prediction - Fabio Quartararo to make it four different winners from four

Although Ducati secured the first-ever qualifying quintet, one lap pace has been the�꧑� Italian manufacturer’s biggest strength so far this weekend, not race pace. 

Of course, overtaking the Bologna bullets is going to prove extre🤪mely difficult for the likes of Quartararo in sixth, Alex Rins in seventh and Marc Marquez, who will line-up ninth. 

However, Quartararo’s long run pace has been𝄹 extremely impressive, while the Frenchman has also been strongest in the final sector, a part of the circuit where a last lap battle could be decided. 

Aprilia would have been a very real contender in our eyes had this prediction been made pre-qualifying, but with both Espargaro and Vinales surprisingly going through Q1 and failing to advance, anything better than a top❀ five would be an astonishing result. 

wuqian0821.com’s podium prediction:

3rd - Marc Marquez

2nd - Jorge Martin 

1st  - Fabio Quartararo