Fabio Quartararo dominates from the start in ‘hostile territory’

The French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M1) was not surprised by the “hostile territory” and dominated the first free training session of San Marino MotoGP Grand Prix at the “Marco Simoncelli” circuit in Misano Adriatico, despite the efforts of the Italian drivers and Ducati why didn’t it happen like that?

Quartararo was the star of the whole batch and despite the times his rivals caught up with, he brought out all his “artillery” in the final laps to command the time table.

The first news in the “queen category” of world motorcycling comes from Suzuki, who decided to bring one of his “local” riders, Kazuki Watanabe, to replace the injured Joan Mir, as the 2020 world champion decided to don’t force it at all. after his right ankle fracture and maybe it will be a doubt for the Aragón race, in two weeks.

Work done for @FabioQ20! ✅

The perfect start as he fends off Ducatis and Aprilias! 👊#SanMarinoGP 🇸🇲 pic.twitter.com/vQoO7TWFWL

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Watanabe will not have an easy time qualifying, as he is not used to participating in the MotoGP category, which ultimately relegates him to the last position in the classification and outside the qualifying time percentage, established in 105 percent, riding in 1:37.294, while Fabio Quartararo did it in 1:32.313, despite seeing many of his laps canceled for exceeding the limits of the Adriatic track.

The leader of the world championship is also the first leader of the classification, all the drivers know that the weather can change throughout the day and during the weekend, even if it did not help him because as the laps went by they passed he is the same. Ducati test rider, “local” Michelle Pirro, and Spaniard Maverick Viñales (Aprilia RS-GP).

However, there is still a lot of training ahead and new changes can be made, although the search for an improvement led Quartararo to make a strange mistake, looking for the limits of the track and improving to beat Pirro and get back in the wake of Viñales, which he hit, as well as the Australian Jack Miller (Ducati Desmosedici GP22).

Meanwhile, Quartararo’s most direct rivals in the fight for the world title seem to be struggling to keep pace and Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) is eighth, with Spaniard Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP ) after this.

In the end, Fabio Quartararo regained the first position led by two Ducati riders, the great favorite in Misano Adriatico, the Australian Jack Miller and the Italian Michelle Pirro, while Aleix Espargaró moved up to fourth place, just ahead with his teammate Maverick Viñales and his championship rival “Pecco” Bagnaia, sixth.

Who will be his teammate in 2023, the Italian Enea Bastianini (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) finished in seventh place, beating the Spaniard Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX RR) by only twenty thousandths of a second and the Italian that Luca Marini and the Frenchman Johann Zarco , on the paths of the Ducati Desmosedici GP22 closing the positions with the right to go directly to the second classification.

From here, the Spanish Pol Espargaró (Repsol Honda RC 213 V), as well as Alex Márquez (Honda RC 213 V), the Italian Andrea Dovizioso (Yamaha YZR M 1), who withdrew from the competition after this grand prix, Raúl Fernández (KTM RC 16) or Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP22).