Le Mans MotoGP: Vinales leads damaged Marquez in FP3
Maverick Vinales put Yamaha on top of the 💝timesheets with a ✃new Le Mans lap record of 1m 31.619s during Saturday morning's FP3 session.
At one stage M1 riders were filling the top three places courtes💧y of Vinales, Valentino Rossi and Monster Yamaha Tech3's Johann Zarc✤o.
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 followinꦍg a low-side fall.
Maverick Vinales put Yamaha on top of the tim💞esheets with a new Le Mans lap record of 1m 31.619s during Saturday morning's FP🃏3 session.
At one stage M1 riders were filling the top three places courtesy of Vinales, Va🍬lentino Rossi and Monster Yamaha Tech3'✱s Johann Zarco.
But Marc Marquez ultimately split the inline four-cylinder machin꧟es, 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 gave it a 💮good go!
Marquez was 0.155s slower than V༒inales, with Rossi and home star Zarco all within 0.247s of the top.
Jorg🥂e Lorenzo improved from tenth on Friday to fifth this morning to lead the Ducati chaꦫllenge, albeit with Pramac's Jack Miller just 0.083s behind on the GP17.
Miller and team-mate Danilo Petrucci are the favourites t🌳o take over from Lorenzo should the Spaniard leave. But Petruc♐ci (12th) - like Cal Crutchlow (11th) and Dani Pedrosa (16th) - were left outside the top ten this morning and will need to take part in Qualifying 1.
Completing the top ten this morni🎶ng behind Miller were Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia), Tito Rabat (Avintia Ducati), Andrea Iannone (Suzuki) and Crutchlow (LCR Honda). However Friday pace setter Andrea Dovizioso (15th) remained fifth ov෴erall, despite not improving this morning, bumping Crutchlow out of the combined top ten
The sunny but cool conditions again caught out man𒉰y riders - fortunately without injury - including Marqu𓄧ez, 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 forefroꦺnt of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
