MotoGP

Quartararo tops Jerez FP2, Marquez down twice within a minute

by Valentin Khorounzhiy
3 min read

Reigning MotoGP champion Fabio Quartararo ended Friday practice for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez on top, while Marc Marquez crashed twice within the span of a minute.


Key moments:

> Quartararo followed by Ducati trio

> Marquez gets a ride from Pedrosa

> Top 16 within a second


On a push lap around the halfway point of the session, Marquez folded the front of his Honda RC213V entering the hairpin-like corner named after his former team-mate Dani Pedrosa, sliding off at low speed and remounting the bike.

Yet just three corners later he had to move off the racing line coming into the Angel Nieto corner in order to let KTMā€™s Miguel Oliveira through, which resulted in him catching a damp patch and dropping his Honda again, this time into the gravel.

This damaged the RC213V enough again for Marquez to instead hitch a ride with none other than Pedrosa, now a KTM tester and only too happy to give Marquez a scooter lift back to the paddock.

Ducatiā€™s Francesco Bagnaia took the lead from LCR Hondaā€™s Takaaki Nakagami coming into the final minutes of the session with a 1m37.283s, and had a lap 0.020s better chalked off for track limits the next time by.

But it wonā€™t have been enough anyway to prevent Quartararo ā€“ on pole at Jerez in all four of his MotoGP starts there so far ā€“ from jumping ahead with a 1m37.071s, although it would have prevented Bagnaia from slipping down to third behind Gresini Ducatiā€™s Enea Bastianini.

Pramacā€™s Jorge Martin made it three Ducatis in the top four, followed by Nakagami, who had both KTMā€™s Brad Binder and the works Honda of Pol Esparagro within a hundredth of his time.

Alex Rins was the lead Suzuki in eighth, while Maverick Vinales was top Aprilia a place behind.

Marquez did remount after the crash, but was not among the 16 riders within a second of Quartararoā€™s time, and incurred the wrath of Aleix Espargaro late on in the session over an unseen incident.

Practice 2 Results

Pos Name Team Bike Gap Next Gap Leader Best Time
1 Fabio Quartararo Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 1m37.071s
2 Enea Bastianini Gresini Racing MotoGP Ducati +0.201s +0.201s 1m37.272s
3 Francesco Bagnaia Ducati Lenovo Team Ducati +0.011s +0.212s 1m37.283s
4 Jorge Martin Pramac Racing Ducati +0.085s +0.297s 1m37.368s
5 Takaaki Nakagami LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda +0.213s +0.51s 1m37.581s
6 Brad Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM +0.004s +0.514s 1m37.585s
7 Pol EspargarĆ³ Repsol Honda Team Honda +0.005s +0.519s 1m37.59s
8 Alex Rins Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki +0.136s +0.655s 1m37.726s
9 Maverick ViƱales Aprilia Racing Aprilia +0.033s +0.688s 1m37.759s
10 Jack Miller Ducati Lenovo Team Ducati +0.003s +0.691s 1m37.762s
11 Johann Zarco Pramac Racing Ducati +0.068s +0.759s 1m37.83s
12 Joan Mir Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki +0.012s +0.771s 1m37.842s
13 Aleix EspargarĆ³ Aprilia Racing Aprilia +0.006s +0.777s 1m37.848s
14 Franco Morbidelli Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha +0.104s +0.881s 1m37.952s
15 Miguel Oliveira Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM +0.06s +0.941s 1m38.012s
16 Alex Marquez LCR Honda Castrol Honda +0.015s +0.956s 1m38.027s
17 Luca Marini Mooney VR46 Racing Team Ducati +0.075s +1.031s 1m38.102s
18 Marco Bezzecchi Mooney VR46 Racing Team Ducati +0.094s +1.125s 1m38.196s
19 Marc Marquez Repsol Honda Team Honda +0.004s +1.129s 1m38.2s
20 Andrea Dovizioso WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team Yamaha +0.085s +1.214s 1m38.285s
21 Fabio Di Giannantonio Gresini Racing MotoGP Ducati +0.028s +1.242s 1m38.313s
22 Stefan Bradl Repsol Honda Team Honda +0.009s +1.251s 1m38.322s
23 Remy Gardner Tech3 KTM Factory Racing KTM +0.031s +1.282s 1m38.353s
24 Darryn Binder WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team Yamaha +0.535s +1.817s 1m38.888s
25 Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia Racing Aprilia +0.072s +1.889s 1m38.96s
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