The French confirms his dominance in Sepang by also being the fastest in the third and last session where Jorge was a tester
Jorge Lorenzo, during the training session.
The French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) has been confirmed as the great dominator of the three days of official MotoGP preseason tests, which have finished this Sunday at the Sepang circuit (Malaysia), in a last day in which the Spanish Jorge Lorenzo returned to the track as a Yamaha tester.
The Nice one, who commanded the table in the previous two days, returned to look on the back of the M1 2020 when setting in the first half of the day a time of 1: 58.349, one tenth of the absolute record of the track that achieved the Italian Danilo Petrucci in the tests last year.
After him, at 82 milsimas, the British finished Lime crutchlow (Honda), which was already 'Top 5' on the first day, while the podium of the day was for Lex Rins (Suzuki), who tested a new swingarm and an Ohlins front fork and is working with the new chassis of the GSX-RR.
Meanwhile, in the 'Top 5' the Italian Francesco 'Pecco' Bagnaia (Ducati), who super technical problem at the beginning of the day, and his compatriot Valentino Rossi (Yamaha), who focused on testing the device 'holeshot' were positioned located in the chassis on the side of the clutch near the fuel tank and who collaborated with his, again, companion, Jorge Lorenzo.
And is that the Balearic perfectly adapted to the Yamaha YZR-M1 and was eight tenths faster than in the 'Shakedown' on Tuesday to finish twentieth. In spite of everything, I failed to be among the 15 pilots who have rolled below 1:59 on the Malaysian track.
Marc, ahead of lex
The first ten positions were held by Petrucci (Ducati), the Spanish Pol Espargar (KTM), the Australian Jack Miller (Ducati), second on Saturday, and also the Spanish Aleix Espargar (Aprilia) and Joan Mir (Suzuki).
Meanwhile, Repsol Honda did not finish finding good feelings in Sepang, and the Mrquez brothers stayed away from the leading posts, something they hope to correct before the arrival of the premiere in Qatar.
The eight-time Marc continues to show his physical discomfort in the shoulder and starred in a new one each in the last corner, which forced him to finish the day early; Thus, I concluded twelfth, and could not thoroughly test a modified chassis and swingarm. Meanwhile, lex was sixteenth.
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