Valencia GP Practice FP1: Nakagami in the lead, Bagnaia 19th at 0.999 sec !

The Japanese rider n ° 30 of the Honda-LCR team has started again very well this new weekend of MotoGP racing with the best time of free practice 1 of the GP of Valencia. "Taka" and his RCV are ahead of Morbidelli and Vinales M1s, while Zarco is 6th, Mir 8th and Quartararo 16th by almost one second… Report and classification.

Takaaki Nakagami demonstrates that his solid fourth place won last Sunday at the European GP owes nothing to chance by immediately positioning himself as the fastest driver in the opening session of the Valencia GP on the same circuit..

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The Honda-LCR rider went down to 1’30.829 on his 2019 RCV, which is already below the racing record held since 2019 by Marc Marquez (1’31.116) and 1.4 sec from the absolute record of Ricardo Tormo slammed by Lorenzo in 2016 in 1’29,401. The n ° 30 precedes Morbidelli and Viñales, for a long time at the "rear posts" before moving up to 3rd place.

This excellent start can be explained by the weather conditions which are much more favorable than last weekend, when the freshness and the showers animated the practice and qualifying for the European GP on the same track. With 19 ° C on the ground this morning and a completely dry track, the pilots made the powder speak !

This results in ultra-tight gaps since the Top 5 closed by the Espargaro brothers is held in three tenths and the 19th pilot of these FP1 – Franco Bagnaia – is only 0.999 sec behind the leading man! Johann Zarco, 6th in his Ducati, is 0.428 sec behind the leader in front of Andrea Dovizioso.

Joan Mir, author of his first MotoGP victory here last Sunday, only appears in 8th place in these FP1s: the young Spaniard is playing his first match point towards the world title this weekend, with 37 points ahead of the championship over his first rival, Fabio Quartararo.

The excellent French "good 20" is for the moment badly started to delay the coronation of the Suzuki pilot since he ends this session in a distant 16th place… 

MotoGP free practice 1 results of the 2020 Valencia GP

1. Takaaki NAKAGAMI Honda 1’30.829 
2. Franco MORBIDELLI Yamaha 1’30.944 0.115 / 0.115
3. Maverick VIÑALES Yamaha 1’30.968 0.139 / 0.024
4. Pol ESPARGARO KTM 1’31.052 0.223 / 0.084
5. Aleix ESPARGARO Aprilia 1’31.170 0.341 / 0.118
6. Johann ZARCO Ducati 1’31.297 0.468 / 0.127
7. Andrea DOVIZIOSO Ducati 1’31.410 0.581 / 0.113
8. Joan MIR Suzuki 1’31.436 0.607 / 0.026
9. Miguel OLIVEIRA KTM 1’31.486 0.657 / 0.050
10. Stefan BRADL Honda 1’31.514 0.685 / 0.028
11. Alex RINS Suzuki 1’31.528 0.699 / 0.014
12. Jack MILLER Ducati 1’31.541 0.712 / 0.013
13. Valentino ROSSI Yamaha 1’31.545 0.716 / 0.004
14. Cal CRUTCHLOW Honda 1’31.572 0.743 / 0.027
15. Alex MARQUEZ Honda 1’31.598 0.769 / 0.026
16. Fabio QUARTARARO Yamaha 1’31.617 0.788 / 0.019
17. Brad BINDER KTM 1’31.678 0.849 / 0.061
18. Danilo PETRUCCI Ducati 1’31.805 0.976 / 0.127
19. Francesco BAGNAIA Ducati 1’31.828 0.999 / 0.023
20. Tito RABAT Ducati 1’32.198 1.369 / 0.370
21. Lorenzo SAVADORI Aprilia 1’32.772 1.943 / 0.574

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