MotoGP Qatar J2 tests: Quartararo accelerates on the Yamaha

Fabio Quartararo sets the best time of the second day of official testing in Qatar ahead of Alex Rins and Maverick Viñales. Franco Morbidelli completes a Top 4 occupied by three Yamaha and one Suzuki on the Losail track. Explanations.

Chase the natural, he comes back at a gallop: Fabio Quartararo titillates the lap times on the second day of the tests in Qatar after a first day of observation on his Yamaha 2020. The young man from Nice, who says he wants to work on his racing rhythm, went down in 1 ’54 .038 despite windy conditions at the start of the day.

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The n ° 20 improves by four tenths the pace printed yesterday by Alex Rins and Joan Mir on their Suzuki, but remains still seven tenths from the absolute record of the Qatari track: Marc Marquez reached 1’53.380 last year during the GP from Qatar. Alex Rins, precisely, signs the second time just 0.162 sec behind the leader.

Maverick Viñales and Franco Morbidelli put their Yamaha in third and fourth position, respectively 0.226 sec and 0.443 sec. They are followed by Johann Zarco, author of a promising 6th stopwatch at 0.527 sec: not bad at all knowing that the n ° 5 is still discovering his new mount. !

Rossi is looking for a little speed

Follow Joan Mir, Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi, author of the ninth time at 0.702 sec: "I would like to find a few tenths to get closer to Viñales", admitted the n ° 46 last night. 

Takaaki Nakagami, 10th, is the first Honda rider of this second day, 0.721 sec behind the leader. Gloomy day for the winged crest, which suffered the repercussions of the successive falls of Marc Marquez and Cal Crutchlow at midday. The defending champion, who said he suffered more from his shoulder than in Malaysia, finished on his mule in 14th place.

Crutchlow, for his part, went for a check-up at the circuit‘s medical center, while grumbling against the understeer character of the 2010 Honda: "the rear pushes the front when entering a turn and accelerating", plague n ° 35, whose words echo those made by Marc Marquez. 

His younger brother, Alex, is struggling on the first track of the season: the Moto2 world champion – who crashed yesterday – finished in 19th place at 1.687 sec. The feverishness of the HRC engineers in his box reflects a certain form of agitation two weeks before the kick-off …

Iannone boosts its impact on Aprilia 

Finally, note the formalization by Aprila of Lorenzo Savadori as test pilot of the RS-GP. The young Italian, who replaced Iannone at Sepang, seems destined to take Bradley Smith’s place as the latter could ride Iannone’s motorcycle in the first races.

Andrea Iannone, suspected of doping, is also talked about in the wrong way by attributing all the merits of the improvements observed on Aprilia. An attitude deemed unworthy and disrespectful by his teammate Aleix Espargaro, who reminds him dryly of his investment in this project for four years. Atmosphere…

Results of the second day of MotoGP testing in Qatar

 

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