Valencia MotoGP qualifying
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Lecuona, who is replacing the injured Miguel Oliveira at Tech 3 this weekend (and will graduate to MotoGP full-time next season), is a superb seventh after the first run of laps, ahead of the likes of Lorenzo and Iannone.
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Rins improves to a 1m30.743s the second time by, with Pol Espargaro improving again to take second place - two tenths down on the Suzuki man but two tenths up on Zarco.
Rins sets the early pace with 1m30.971s, ahead of Pol Espargaro and debutant Lecuona. This lap alone won't be enough for Q2 certainly.
It's the final MotoGP qualifying for Jorge Lorenzo. He has 43 poles and will very clearly not add a 44th today, but he'd probably dearly love to fire in one last properly quick effort - even if it won't mean much for the record books.
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Q1 has commenced.
Rins has pretty good pace, so it's essential he gets into Q2 here to give himself a good shot for the race - but one-lap pace continues to elude the Suzuki man, and both Zarco and the Espargaro brothers are likely to threaten his Q2 chances.
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Q1 roster: P Espargaro, Rins, Zarco, A Espargaro, Lorenzo, Iannone, Pirro, Abraham, Rabat, Lecuona, Kallio, Syahrin.
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Some huge news coming from the paddock in the meantime, as Moto2 champion Alex Marquez has suddenly moved to pole position to replace Jorge Lorenzo at Repsol Honda - at the expense of the likes of Johann Zarco and Cal Crutchlow: 
No Pecco Bagnaia in this session - the Pramac Ducati rookie had a very strange FP3 crash, going over the handlebars after grabbing the brake exiting the pitlane in FP3.
He was concussed and had a fracture to his left wrist - and while he's back at the track and is seemingly in good spirits, he is "unlikely to race" tomorrow.
He was concussed and had a fracture to his left wrist - and while he's back at the track and is seemingly in good spirits, he is "unlikely to race" tomorrow.
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Marquez also had a coming together with Karel Abraham during the session, so it's not been the smoothest FP4 - but he does look to have extremely strong pace as usual.
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In the race-trim runs in FP4 however, it's Maverick Vinales who has snatched top honours at the death, outpacing Marquez - who has crashed at Turn 4 a few minutes prior - and Quartararo.
Fabio Quartararo has set the pace in FP1, FP2 and FP3 and thus looks a strong favourite to pick up a sixth (!!!) pole position of his rookie season.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of MotoGP qualifying for the final time of 2019, as the premier-class field fights it out for pole position honours at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia.
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