MotoGP Jerez: Marquez tops FP3, Dovizioso and Vinales miss Q2 spots

Ducati's championship leader Dovizioso and Yamaha rider Vinales were outperformed by their factory team-mates in the late-session qualifying simulation runs, respectively finishing four and sixth hundredths off making it into the top 10.

Having crashed late-on during Friday practice, Marquez usurped Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro for the lead in the opening stages of the 45-minute FP3 session.

He then took until the 10-minute mark to pump in the fastest lap of the weekend so far, a 1m38.549s, surpassing LCR rider Cal Crutchlow's best effort from second practice.

But the Honda privateer's response, arriving at the midpoint of the session, was emphatic, as he went almost six tenths clear with a 1m37.973s.

With the clock running out, Marquez emerged for his first run with a new soft rear tyre, and reclaimed the top spot with a 1m37.818s, following that up with a 1m37.702s on his next lap.

That time ended up coming under no threat from the soft-tyre runners, with Crutchlow and Suzuki's Andrea Iannone completing the top three, both around three tenths behind Marquez.

Tech3's Johann Zarco was the top Yamaha runner in fourth, ahead of the lead Ducati of Jorge Lorenzo and Pramac's Ducati GP17 rider Jack Miller. Yamaha's Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa, Danilo Petrucci and Alex Rins made up the top 10 in FP3, and in doing so booked their spots in the pole shoot-out later on Saturday.

Avintia Ducati rider Tito Rabat was the only rider to crash, hitting the deck at the long Turn 5 right-hander during a soft-tyre run, before sprinting to his garage and rejoining the track - later finishing 14th place.

Results

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Gap	Laps
1	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m37.702s	22
2	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	0.271s	19
3	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	Suzuki	0.287s	20
4	Johann Zarco	Tech3 Yamaha	Yamaha	0.461s	20
5	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	Ducati	0.483s	19
6	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	0.522s	20
7	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	0.638s	19
8	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	0.664s	21
9	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	0.760s	21
10	Alex Rins	Suzuki	Suzuki	0.766s	21
11	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	0.809s	19
12	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	Yamaha	0.829s	23
13	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	Aprilia	0.848s	17
14	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1.012s	19
15	Pol Espargaro	KTM	KTM	1.044s	19
16	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	Honda	1.070s	22
17	Franco Morbidelli	MVDS Honda	Honda	1.090s	20
18	Scott Redding	Aprilia	Aprilia	1.240s	17
19	Mika Kallio	KTM	KTM	1.280s	20
20	Karel Abraham	Aspar Ducati	Ducati	1.364s	16
21	Bradley Smith	KTM	KTM	1.401s	19
22	Thomas Luthi	MVDS Honda	Honda	1.536s	20
23	Alvaro Bautista	Aspar Ducati	Ducati	1.786s	21
24	Xavier Simeon	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1.942s	19
25	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 Yamaha	Yamaha	2.532s	17