MotoGP Mugello: Andrea Iannone fastest by half a second in FP1 - MotoGP News

MotoGP News - MotoGP Mugello: Andrea Iannone fastest by half a second in FP1

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Suzuki rider Andrea Iannone topped the opening practice session for MotoGP's Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, beating Ducati wildcard Michele Pirro by over half a second.

Iannone, who confirmed on Thursday he will leave Suzuki at the end of the 2018 season, left it until the final 30 seconds of the 45-minute Friday morning session to move to the top of the times, posting a best lap of 1m47.253s.

That was 0.550s up on Pirro, making his first of three planned starts on a third factory Ducati this year, who led the timesheets for the bulk of the running and ended up second.

Andrea Dovizioso made it a Ducati 1-2 for most of the way with a lap 0.192s slower than Pirro, which proved good enough for third in the final reckoning, 0.708s down on former team-mate Iannone.

Yamaha's Maverick Vinales crashed at the first corner, San Donato, on his first flying lap, but he was able to recover to set the fourth-quickest time, fractionally slower than Dovizioso.

Setting identical times were Pramac Ducati's Jack Miller and championship leader Marc Marquez on the best of the Hondas, both recording a 1m48.035s to take fifth and sixth places.

Rookie Franco Morbidelli was an impressive seventh, less than two tenths shy of Marquez and 0.007s ahead of his mentor Valentino Rossi.

Jorge Lorenzo was a further thousandth of a second behind in ninth, while Cal Crutchlow completed a top 10 split by a little under a second.

Danilo Petrucci, who is vying to replace Lorenzo at the factory Ducati team next year, had a subdued start to his home race weekend in 13th place, making him the slowest of the four GP18 riders.

Dani Pedrosa likewise endured a tough opening session on the second works Honda that left him 17th.

Thomas Luthi was the only other crasher besides Vinales of a relatively incident-free session, losing the front end at the downhill Scarperia right-hander at the halfway point.

FP1 times

Pos	Rider	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	1m47.253s	-	18
2	Michele Pirro	Ducati	1m47.803s	0.550s	16
3	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1m47.961s	0.708s	16
4	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	1m47.995s	0.742s	18
5	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	1m48.035s	0.782s	19
6	Marc Marquez	Honda	1m48.035s	0.782s	18
7	Franco Morbidelli	MVDS Honda	1m48.211s	0.958s	19
8	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1m48.218s	0.965s	19
9	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	1m48.219s	0.966s	18
10	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	1m48.229s	0.976s	17
11	Johann Zarco	Tech3 Yamaha	1m48.272s	1.019s	19
12	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1m48.274s	1.021s	19
13	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Ducati	1m48.304s	1.051s	19
14	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1m48.384s	1.131s	16
15	Pol Espargaro	KTM	1m48.570s	1.317s	18
16	Karel Abraham	Aspar Ducati	1m48.573s	1.320s	16
17	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	1m48.669s	1.416s	19
18	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	1m48.878s	1.625s	20
19	Alvaro Bautista	Aspar Ducati	1m48.920s	1.667s	20
20	Bradley Smith	KTM	1m49.086s	1.833s	19
21	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	1m49.181s	1.928s	17
22	Thomas Luthi	MVDS Honda	1m49.460s	2.207s	15
23	Scott Redding	Aprilia	1m49.499s	2.246s	13
24	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 Yamaha	1m49.650s	2.397s	17
25	Xavier Simeon	Avintia Ducati	1m50.315s	3.062s	17

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June 1, 2018 at 04:22AM