Zarco surprised the favorites and set the tone in the first free practice sessions

The French johann zarco (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) suffered from a crash at turn seven of the Silverstone track, in the first free practice session of the MotoGP British Grand Prix, in first place with an advantage of 27 thousandths of a second over the Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), who also suffered an accident in the session.

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But the first news came from the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1), because he did not want to leave anything to chance and from the first minutes of practice he “practiced” a “long lap” penalty, which found fourteen of the British layout.

Quartararo passed that point on several occasions throughout the session, practicing punishment where it is estimated that he can lose between 0.8 tenths and 1.5 seconds, depending on how he does it, and although he gave the impression of doing it well, shortly after he became the star again, but in this time is negative, stop your motorcycle.

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The world championship leader tried to reach his workshop with the inertia he had, but in the end he had to ask the administrators for help. track and the Australian Jack Miller (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), as always ready to help his rivals, towed him to the workshop.

Meanwhile, in another area of ​​the circuit, at turn four, the Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), Miller’s partner and winner of the TT Assen, crashed, without physical consequences for him, but forced to wait for. with the help of track marshals to lift the motorcycle off the ground and reach his workshop.

On the time table, at the time, Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX RR) was in charge.winner of this stage in 2019, followed by only 27 thousandths of a second by the Japanese Takaaki Nakagami (Honda RC 213 V) and by 60 thousandths to Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP).

Less than twenty minutes left, Alex Rins lowered his record again to put it at 2:00.728 first and 2:00.527 laterthere are already more than two tenths of a second on Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) and three tenths on Maverick Viñales (Aprilia RS-GP).

Moments later, another disaster without consequences, this time for Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), who crashed at high speed at turn seven.

The last minutes were very difficult, because of them Bagnaia beat Rins, but the Suzuki rider “returned” the action a lap lateralthough he overtook both “in extremis” and in just a few laps he was able to complete, the Frenchman Zarco, who after the crash spent a long time in his workshop looking for an explanation of what happened to mishap and, because of the time achieved he certainly found him.

After Zarco finished Bagnaia, Rins, Quartararo, Nakagami and the Aprilia riders, Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñaleswith Joan Mir (Suzuki GSX RR) in eighth position, ahead of Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) and Brad Binder (KTM RC 16).

From the direct classification, in very little, is Pol Espargaró (Repsol Honda RC 213 V), with Alex Márquez (Honda RC 213 V), fifteenth and Raúl Fernández (KTM RC 16), eighteenth.