2018 MotoGP Results Friday from Mugello

2018 MotoGP Results Friday from Mugello — One day after announcing he is to leave the Ecstar Suzuki team, Italian Andrea Iannone had an emphatic response to his sacking – setting fastest time in both morning and afternoon sessions in an eventful first day at Mugello for his home GP.

2018 MotoGP Results Friday from Mugello

Iannone, who crashed out of the last race on the first lap, was less than half a second off his own best lap time at the spectacular, sweeping 5.245-km circuit in the shadow of the Apennine mountains.

Maverick Vinales (Movistar Yamaha) was second-fastest, both displacing long-time session leader Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) in the final flurry.

Both Vinales and Marquez had fallen on the first day without injury.

The high drama came from Ducati, however, with lead rider Andrea Dovizioso setting a new top speed record of 221.7 mph on the long Mugello straight, shortly after suffering a fiery engine blow-up at the same place, bringing out the red flags.

By then, however, the session had already been stopped once, after Ducati test rider and wild card entry Michele Pirro had a massive crash at the same point – see separate News story.

Johann Zarco (Monster Yamaha) also came up in the closing stages as, knocking the flying Jack Miller (Alma Pramac Ducati) to fifth, with Cal Crutchlow(LCR Honda) sixth.

Times were close among these riders, with Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha) just a hundredth slower in seventh, although seven tenths off Iannone’s top time.

Franco Morbidelli (VDS Honda) was a close eighth, top rookie; with Danilo Petrucci (Alma Pramac Ducati) and Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati) completing the top ten.

Should times not drop tomorrow morning, this top ten will go straight through to Q2. Although continued dry weather is forecast, cooler conditions in the morning meant that all riders except Pirro (second this morning) were faster in the afternoon, Iannone by more than half a second and others by even more.

2018 MotoGP Results Friday from Mugello

GRAN PREMIO D’ITALIA OAKLEY
MotoGP Free Practice Nr. 2 Classification 2018
Mugello, Friday, June 01, 2018