Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso set the pace in the first exercise session of the new of the 2018 MotoGP season in Qatar.
Dovizioso edged fellow Italian Valentino Rossi – fresh from signing a brand new two-12 months address Movistar Yamaha – via just zero.061 seconds.
Rossi appeared to have pipped Dovizioso together with his quickest time of the consultation before the Ducati rider set a new exceptional time of 1m55.366s with just a few minutes to move.
Rossi advanced his lap time as nicely inside the death seconds of the consultation but it wasn’t enough to retake first location.
Reigning champion Marc Marquez additionally published a final-minute improvement to at ease third region, 0.316s off Dovizioso’s pace.
Andrea Iannone made it 4 specific producers in the top 4, completing because the nice of the Suzukis.
Jorge Lorenzo ended up 5th, a bit extra than half a 2nd in the back of crew-mate Dovizioso, even as Johann Zarco secured sixth region on his 2016-spec Tech3 Yamaha.
Spaniards Maverick Viñales and Dani Pedrosa may want to handiest manipulate eleventh and twelfth place respectively, well down on their respective group-friends.
FP1 instances
POS RIDER BIKE TIME GAP LAPS
1 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 1m55.366s – 14
2 Valentino Rossi Yamaha 1m55.427s zero.061s 18
three Marc Marquez Honda 1m55.743s zero.377s 18
4 Andrea Iannone Suzuki 1m55.816s zero.450s 17
five Jorge Lorenzo Ducati 1m55.888s zero.522s 16
6 Johann Zarco Yamaha 1m55.943s 0.577s 16
7 Cal Crutchlow Honda 1m55.989s zero.623s 16
8 Alex Rins Suzuki 1m55.997s zero.631s 17
9 Danilo Petrucci Ducati 1m56.076s 0.710s sixteen
10 Tito Rabat Ducati 1m56.111s zero.745s 17
eleven Maverick Vinales Yamaha 1m56.130s zero.764s 19
12 Dani Pedrosa Honda 1m56.265s zero.899s 17
thirteen Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1m56.313s 0.947s 14
14 Alvaro Bautista Ducati 1m56.528s 1.162s 14
15 Hafizh Syahrin Yamaha 1m56.544s 1.178s 17
sixteen Jack Miller Ducati 1m56.680s 1.314s 17
17 Pol Espargaro KTM 1m56.999s 1.633s 16
18 Scott Redding Aprilia 1m57.115s 1.749s 15
19 Takaaki Nakagami Honda 1m57.183s 1.817s 18
20 Thomas Luthi Honda 1m57.211s 1.845s 14
21 Franco Morbidelli Honda 1m57.273s 1.907s 15
22 Bradley Smith KTM 1m57.389s 2.023s 18
23 Xavier Simeon Ducati 1m59.151s 3.785s 16
24 Karel Abraham Ducati 1m59.462s four.096s nine
Dovizioso edged fellow Italian Valentino Rossi – fresh from signing a brand new two-12 months address Movistar Yamaha – via just zero.061 seconds.
Rossi appeared to have pipped Dovizioso together with his quickest time of the consultation before the Ducati rider set a new exceptional time of 1m55.366s with just a few minutes to move.
Reigning champion Marc Marquez additionally published a final-minute improvement to at ease third region, 0.316s off Dovizioso’s pace.
Andrea Iannone made it 4 specific producers in the top 4, completing because the nice of the Suzukis.
Jorge Lorenzo ended up 5th, a bit extra than half a 2nd in the back of crew-mate Dovizioso, even as Johann Zarco secured sixth region on his 2016-spec Tech3 Yamaha.
Spaniards Maverick Viñales and Dani Pedrosa may want to handiest manipulate eleventh and twelfth place respectively, well down on their respective group-friends.
FP1 instances
POS RIDER BIKE TIME GAP LAPS
1 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati 1m55.366s – 14
2 Valentino Rossi Yamaha 1m55.427s zero.061s 18
three Marc Marquez Honda 1m55.743s zero.377s 18
4 Andrea Iannone Suzuki 1m55.816s zero.450s 17
five Jorge Lorenzo Ducati 1m55.888s zero.522s 16
6 Johann Zarco Yamaha 1m55.943s 0.577s 16
7 Cal Crutchlow Honda 1m55.989s zero.623s 16
8 Alex Rins Suzuki 1m55.997s zero.631s 17
9 Danilo Petrucci Ducati 1m56.076s 0.710s sixteen
10 Tito Rabat Ducati 1m56.111s zero.745s 17
eleven Maverick Vinales Yamaha 1m56.130s zero.764s 19
12 Dani Pedrosa Honda 1m56.265s zero.899s 17
thirteen Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1m56.313s 0.947s 14
14 Alvaro Bautista Ducati 1m56.528s 1.162s 14
15 Hafizh Syahrin Yamaha 1m56.544s 1.178s 17
sixteen Jack Miller Ducati 1m56.680s 1.314s 17
17 Pol Espargaro KTM 1m56.999s 1.633s 16
18 Scott Redding Aprilia 1m57.115s 1.749s 15
19 Takaaki Nakagami Honda 1m57.183s 1.817s 18
20 Thomas Luthi Honda 1m57.211s 1.845s 14
21 Franco Morbidelli Honda 1m57.273s 1.907s 15
22 Bradley Smith KTM 1m57.389s 2.023s 18
23 Xavier Simeon Ducati 1m59.151s 3.785s 16
24 Karel Abraham Ducati 1m59.462s four.096s nine