MotoGP GP Aragon Free 3: five Ducati, with Miller first on Bagnaia. Marquez in Q1

Borgo Panigale show in third free practice, with Bastianini 4th and Martin 5th completing the top positions. Quartararo closes 8th, Aprilia negative surprise: both Espargaro and Viñales out of the top ten, like Marc, who slips and then is only 12th

by the correspondent Paolo Ianieri

September 17

– alcaniz (spain)

Cinquina Ducati in the third free practice of MotoGP, with Jack Miller ahead of Francesco Bagnaia, a newfound Marco Bezzecchi, Enea Bastianini and Jorge Martin, in a session that gave great surprises: such as the exclusion of both Aprilia of the top 10, with Aleix Espargaro, 11th, and Maverick Vinales, 17th, who after a great Friday will have to sweat the access to Q2 to compete for pole position. Miller signed the clocks on a time of 1’46 ”992, 30 thousandths better than his teammate and 56 from Bezzecchi, who in the final took advantage of Bagnaia’s driving to get a great third time.

quartararo eighth

In the top 10, behind the five Reds, here are the two KTMs of Brad Binder (author of a crash in the final) and Miguel Oliveira, then Fabio Quartararo, 266 thousandths from Miller, the best Honda of Takaaki Nakagami and the Suzuki of Alex Rins, who saved himself despite a crash at the first corner right on the last lap.

marquez falls and is in q1

He had said that sooner or later, inevitably, the first crash would also come, but frankly Marc Marquez would have preferred to wait a bit. On the other hand, at turn 7 here is the classic crash for the closure of the front end of his RC213V, the real limit of Honda. At the end of the session, Marc then tried to take advantage of Quartararo’s wake to snatch a place in the top 10, in vain, however: the Frenchman did not try to attack and Marc even risked touching him dangerously a couple of times. In the end, for him, the 12th time, for a Q1 that promises to be very hot, given that in addition to Marquez and the two Aprilia, the Ducati of Johann Zarco and Luca Marini will also be trying to snatch the two tickets for Q2. .

The times of the MotoGP Free 3 in Aragon

  1. Jack Miller, Ducati 1’46.992
  2. Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati 1’47.022
  3. Marco Bezzecchi, Ducati VR46 1’47.048
  4. Enea Bastianini, Ducati Gresini 1’47.057
  5. Jorge Martin, Ducati Pramac 1’47.082
  6. Brad Binder, KTM 1’47.167
  7. Miguel Oliveira, KTM 1’47.224
  8. Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha 1’47.258
  9. Takaaki Nakagami, Honda 1’47.266
  10. Alex Rins, Suzuki 1’47.272
  11. Aleix Espargaro, Aprilia 1’47.321
  12. Marc Marquez, Honda 1’47.429
  13. Luca Marina, Ducati VR46 1’47.437
  14. Fabio Di Giannantonio, Ducati Gresini 1’47.455
  15. Johann Zarco, Ducati Pramac 1’47.478
  16. Alex Marquez, Honda LCR 1’47.622
  17. Remy Gardner, Tech3 KTM 1’47.718
  18. Joan Mir, Suzuki, 1’47.763
  19. Maverick Vinales, Aprilia 1’47.786
  20. Franco Morbidelli, Yamaha 1’47.812
  21. Cal Crutchlow, Yamaha RNF 1’47.953
  22. Pol Espargaro, Honda 1’47.981
  23. Darryn Binder, Yamaha RNF 1’48.203
  24. Raul Fernandez, Tech3 KTM 1’48.642



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