Phillip Island MotoGP: Vinales leads FP2, Quartararo sidelined
Maverick Vinales dominated the Friday afternoon MotoGP session at the Australian Grand Prix, while fellow Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo missed the session following his heavy FP1 crash
The Petronas SRT rider was flicked from his M1 late on in a wet first session from Phillip Island at the Turn 6 left-hander at Siberia and suffered a hematoma in his left ankle.
While declared fit to continue, SRT opted to bench Quartararo for the afternoon session, which will resign him to Q1 if grim weather forecasts for Saturday are to be believed.
After setting the pace in the wet FP1, Vinales was also on top for the majority of FP2, with Honda's Marc Marquez only leading early on, and briefly in the middle of the session.
Vinales built a sizeable lead with a 1m29.195s with 17 minutes left on the clock, a time he was able to improve on twice more to end up with a 1m28.824s.
Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso moved up to second with a time set after the chequered flag fell, but his deficit to the Yamaha man was 0.496s.
LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow took third ahead of Danilo Petrucci and Jack Miller (Pramac) as three Ducatis made it into the top five.
Marquez had to settle for sixth after an overtake at Turn 11 on team-mate Jorge Lorenzo on his final lap resulted in the two Repsol Hondas making slight contact, and a piece flying off of one of the RC213Vs.
He still narrowly beat the sister works Yamaha of Valentino Rossi, who was seventh, followed by Suzuki's Alex Rins, SRT's Franco Morbidelli and the Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro.
LCR stand-in Johann Zarco ended his first dry session on a Honda in 15th, 1.617s off the pace, but nearly two tenths faster than Lorenzo, who was 16th.
Two riders, Pol Espargaro (KTM) and Francesco Bagnaia (Pramac), crashed at the end of the session at the Hayshed right-hander and the long left of the Southern Loop in the closing stages.
Pos | Rider | Team | Bike | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Maverick Vinales | Yamaha | Yamaha | 1m28.824s | - | 25 |
2 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati | Ducati | 1m29.320s | 0.496s | 22 |
3 | Cal Crutchlow | LCR Honda | Honda | 1m29.325s | 0.501s | 22 |
4 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati | Ducati | 1m29.327s | 0.503s | 20 |
5 | Jack Miller | Pramac Ducati | Ducati | 1m29.344s | 0.520s | 20 |
6 | Marc Marquez | Honda | Honda | 1m29.421s | 0.597s | 19 |
7 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha | Yamaha | 1m29.436s | 0.612s | 21 |
8 | Alex Rins | Suzuki | Suzuki | 1m29.472s | 0.648s | 21 |
9 | Franco Morbidelli | Petronas Yamaha | Yamaha | 1m29.718s | 0.894s | 21 |
10 | Aleix Espargaro | Aprilia | Aprilia | 1m29.791s | 0.967s | 18 |
11 | Joan Mir | Suzuki | Suzuki | 1m29.875s | 1.051s | 24 |
12 | Karel Abraham | Avintia Ducati | Ducati | 1m29.997s | 1.173s | 20 |
13 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia | Aprilia | 1m30.170s | 1.346s | 18 |
14 | Francesco Bagnaia | Pramac Ducati | Ducati | 1m30.426s | 1.602s | 17 |
15 | Johann Zarco | LCR Honda | Honda | 1m30.441s | 1.617s | 21 |
16 | Jorge Lorenzo | Honda | Honda | 1m30.706s | 1.882s | 19 |
17 | Pol Espargaro | KTM | KTM | 1m30.859s | 2.035s | 17 |
18 | Mika Kallio | KTM | KTM | 1m30.865s | 2.041s | 21 |
19 | Hafizh Syahrin | Tech3 KTM | KTM | 1m30.940s | 2.116s | 21 |
20 | Miguel Oliveira | Tech3 KTM | KTM | 1m31.404s | 2.580s | 21 |
21 | Tito Rabat | Avintia Ducati | Ducati | 1m31.459s | 2.635s | 22 |
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