Vinales leads Yamaha one-two as Marquez makes most laps in Catalunya test

Maverick Viñales has gone fastest in a factory Yamaha one-two at the Catalunya post-race MotoGP test, while Jack Miller ended up 14th.

Viñales’ late 1:39.400s saw him come out on top by 0.137s over championship-leading team-mate Fabio Quartararo, with LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami third at 0.302s off the pace.

Nakagami was the early pace-setter on a 1:40.648s on a Honda, before SRT’s Franco Morbidelli clocked a 1:40.022s on his Yamaha during the second hour.

Suzuki’s Joan Mir then set a 1:39.816s in the third hour, which remained fastest until the sixth hour, when Quartararo went to a 1:39.537s which would be his best of the day.

Viñales, who was testing a carbon swingarm, lowered the benchmark twice in the final hour, initially to a 1:39.516s before finding another tenth-and-a-bit.

There were four manufacturers represented in the top five, with Honda rider Nakagami followed on the timesheet by Suzuki’s Mir and Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia.

Mir had made no improvement on that third-hour time while Bagnaia went as fast as a 1:39.866s, with both working mostly on set-up.

The rest of the top 10 was Pol Espargaro (Honda), Johann Zarco (Pramac Ducati), Morbidelli, previous-day race winner Miguel Oliveira (KTM), and Valentino Rossi (SRT Yamaha).

Encouragingly for Marc Marquez, his 87 laps was the biggest haul of anyone, and the 1:40.054s on the 52nd of those was good enough for 11th.

Miller, fresh off a podium on the day prior, went as fast as a 1:40.242s to be 14th-fastest.

The Australian was one of a handful to crash during the day and, like factory Ducati team-mate Bagnaia, that was at Turn 5.

“The track was not in the best condition with the rain that we had last night, but all in all, it was a good test,” said Miller.

“We went through a few items, and I was able to double-check a couple of things that we’d tried over the weekend. We’re ready to go on to Sachsenring [next round].”

Pol Espargaro went down at Turn 6 while Avintia’s Luca Marini triggered a red flag when he went down on his Ducati during the first hour, but was not hurt.

Morbidelli finished his day in the early afternoon while Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro sat it out altogether due to a problem for the arm that was operated on recently.

Taking his place alongside Lorenzo Savadori was Matteo Baiocco, and they ended up 19th and 23rd respectively.

Results: Catalunya Official Test

Pos	Num	Rider	Nat	Team	Bike	Fastest lap		Gap 1st/Prev
1	12	Maverick VIÑALES	ESP	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	1:39.400	78/85
2	20	Fabio QUARTARARO	FRA	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	Yamaha	1:39.537	69/79	0.137/0.137
3	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	JPN	LCR Honda IDEMITSU	Honda	1:39.702	47/67	0.302/0.165
4	36	Joan MIR	ESP	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	Suzuki	1:39.816	25/65	0.416/0.114
5	63	Francesco BAGNAIA	ITA	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	1:39.866	44/48	0.466/0.050
6	44	Pol ESPARGARO	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	1:39.877	71/72	0.477/0.011
7	5	Johann ZARCO	FRA	Pramac Racing	Ducati	1:39.979	46/61	0.579/0.102
8	21	Franco MORBIDELLI	ITA	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	1:40.022	11/29	0.622/0.043
9	88	Miguel OLIVEIRA	POR	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	1:40.036	23/44	0.636/0.014
10	46	Valentino ROSSI	ITA	Petronas Yamaha SRT	Yamaha	1:40.050	62/72	0.650/0.014
11	93	Marc MARQUEZ	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	Honda	1:40.054	52/87	0.654/0.004
12	33	Brad BINDER	RSA	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	KTM	1:40.141	44/55	0.741/0.087
13	10	Luca MARINI	ITA	SKY VR46 Avintia	Ducati	1:40.226	48/49	0.826/0.085
14	43	Jack MILLER	AUS	Ducati Lenovo Team	Ducati	1:40.242	19/49	0.842/0.016
15	73	Alex MARQUEZ	ESP	LCR Honda CASTROL	Honda	1:40.483	58/70	1.083/0.241
16	82	T KTM Test 1		KTM Test Team	KTM	1:40.912	13/25	1.512/0.429
17	23	Enea BASTIANINI	ITA	Avintia Esponsorama	Ducati	1:40.923	15/36	1.523/0.011
18	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	ITA	Tech 3 KTM Factory Racing	KTM	1:40.937	53/61	1.537/0.014
19	32	Lorenzo SAVADORI	ITA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	1:40.963	76/78	1.563/0.026
20	50	Sylvain GUINTOLI	FRA	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	Suzuki	1:40.994	71/72	1.594/0.031
21	81	T KTM Test 2		KTM Test Team	KTM	1:41.053	5/7	1.653/0.059
22	27	Iker LECUONA	ESP	Tech 3 KTM Factory Racing	KTM	1:41.205	22/71	1.805/0.152
23	15	Matteo BAIOCCO	ITA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	Aprilia	1:46.571	55/66	7.171/5.366