MotoGP Silverstone Warm Up LIVE: Aleix Espargaro makes Aprilia shine! – Media Service

Article continuously updated until the end of the session

With three pilots, Pol Espargaro, Francesco Bagnaia and Fabio Quartararo, standing in 3 hundredths of a second over the 5.9 kilometers of the Silverstone circuit, very clever the one who could give the winner of this MotoGP Grand Prix of Great Britain!

And, a priori, it is not the FP4 result in race conditions which could help us, since we find the same three drivers in the lead, this time with the Frenchman preceding the Spaniard and the Italian. However, by consulting the analysis sheet, we can note that the Yamaha rider who completed 8 of his 9 laps under 2’01, against only 3 for the Honda representative and 5 for Borgo Panigale.

A sign ? No doubt, but it will still be necessary to El Diablo get rid of the pack of V4 which risks locking it up at the start …

While waiting for this perhaps capital moment of the race, the drivers who will face each other have this 20-minute warm-up to fine-tune their final settings… and to train for the start.

Despite the presence of a sun appearing, the temperatures, with 16 ° in the air and 20 ° on the asphalt, are still very cool at Silverstone and are a difficult factor to assess when choosing tires …

By the time the 21 pilots (Lorenzo Savadori declared forfeit) are getting ready, let’s take advantage of these few minutes live thanks to the official website MotoGP.com :

Silverstone MotoGP ™	2019	2021
FP1	1’59.952 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	2’00.941 Marc Marquez (See here)
FP2	1’59.225 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1’59.317 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
FP3	1’58.547 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1’59.288 Jack Miller (See here)
FP4	1’59.327 Marc Marquez (See here)	2’00.002 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Q1	1’58.944 Andrea Dovizioso (See here)	1’59.288 Johann Zarco (See here)
Q2	1’58.168 Marc Marquez (See here)	1’58.889 Pol Espargaro (See here)
Warm up	1’59.609 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	2’00.325 Aleix Espargaro (See here)
Race	Rins, Marquez, Vinales (See here)
Record	1’58.168 Marc Marquez (2019) (See here)

When the red lights go out … Alex Marquez is the first to take off, Jorge martin the last.

Let’s get down to business ?#MotoGP warm-up is go! ?#BritishGP ?? pic.twitter.com/wp39ST6bDu

– MotoGP ™ ? (@MotoGP) August 29, 2021

Various choices concerning the tires, but it is still too cold to pass the hard rear …

The poleman Pol Espargaro The first achieves the first reference in 2’01.649 in front of his brother, then it is the latter who takes command of the operations in 2’01.184.

At the end of his second round, Fabio Quartararo moved to the top of the standings, in 2’00.695, then 2’00.612 in the next round.

At mid-session, the Frenchman accelerates again and precedes Joan Mir, Aleix Espargaro, Marc Márquez, Pol Espargaro, Jorge Martin, Jack Miller, Iker Lecuona, Luca Marini, Danilo Petrucci, Cal Crutchlow, Miguel Oliveira, Brad Binder, Francesco Bagnaia, Johann Zarco, Enea Bastianini, Alex Rins, Valentino Rossi , Alex Marquez and Takaaki Nakagami.

Enea Bastianini then a minor fall at the famous and fast turn # 12.

Six minutes from the checkered flag, Takaaki Nakagami goes straight from last to first position, in 2’00.351 while Marc Marquez Foul for the 15th time this season, not serious at turn # 8.

Another Turn 8 crash! ?

This time it’s @ marcmarquez93 that slides into the gravel ?#BritishGP ?? pic.twitter.com/KVCtQHZT6n

– MotoGP ™ ? (@MotoGP) August 29, 2021

During this time, Aleix Espargaro achieved the best lap of the session in 2’00.325.

The podium battle could involve a pair of Espargaros today! ?

Both @polespargaro and @AleixEspargaro have looked strong all weekend ?#BritishGP ?? pic.twitter.com/CDeklfhRaq

– MotoGP ™ ? (@MotoGP) August 29, 2021

Jake dixon He also made a minor mistake, but he had to abandon his M1.

In the end, no one passed the hard rear tire, which may not be the case this afternoon.

That Aprilia works around Silverstone! ?@AleixEspargaro tops #MotoGP warm-up! ?#BritishGP ?? pic.twitter.com/tPw5VCKTEJ

– MotoGP ™ ? (@MotoGP) August 29, 2021

MotoGP British Grand Prix warm-up results:

Ranking credit: MotoGP.com