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The Spanish Maverick Viñales (Yamaha YZR M 1) was faster than the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) in the third free practice session for the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix at the Ángel Nieto circuit in Jerez , in which both set a new record for the fastest lap.

Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V), who focused much of the session's attention, finished in 20th position , forced to go through the first classification to get a place in the formation of the Andalusian race.

The great unknown of the third session in MotoGP was to see what performance the world champion, the Spanish Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) would be able to achieve, who after taking all day off Friday to regain strength after the operation to which he underwent last Tuesday for the fracture of the middle third of the humerus of his right arm that he suffered last weekend.

Like Márquez, the British Cal Cruthlow (Honda RC 213 V) also took to the track , operated on the same Tuesday as the Spanish from a scaphoid fracture in his left hand, while the discomfort in his right shoulder prevented Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX -RR) hit the track in this session.

Márquez left no room for rumors because practically as soon as the track was opened he went out to check his true physical condition on the bike and although on the first lap he took it easy and rode at 1:42, the next He was already at 1:39, relatively close to the leading positions, and gradually but giving the sensation of a certain tranquility, he was lowering his personal records lap after lap to reach 1: 38.4 and give a first round of five laps. .

In his second outing, which he did with some speed, Marc Márquez did not change anything on his bike, equipped with the same tire compounds and obviously with the clear objective of working and seeing what the performance of his battered right arm was.

If Maverick Viñales (Yamaha YZR M 1) started the session as leader, before reaching the equator of the same the Italian position had already been taken from him by the Italian Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP20), who managed to shoot in 1: 36.847 , while Marc Márquez was eighteenth just under 1.4 seconds away from his record.

Already on the tenth lap Marc Márquez dropped to 1:37 to place sixteenth, while Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) decided to change the rear tire to put the soft and achieve a 1: 36.643 that was the new absolute record for the Andalusian circuit.

There was still more than a quarter of an hour of training but all the pilots decided to take action to try to get a direct pass to the second classification, which caused some scare, such as the Spanish Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP), Daniel Pedrosa fell in the curve, although he was soon able to return to the track without major consequences, which did not happen with Iker Lecuona (KTM RC 16), who had to run back to his workshop to try to take advantage of the remaining training time .

Aleix Espargaró continued training but in his new attempt to make a fast lap he went to the ground again at turn two.

Márquez, meanwhile, was not satisfied with the eighteenth place he occupied at the time and mounted a new rear tire to try to improve on his third trip to the track, in which he could barely complete three laps, but his effort was wasted and in the end he fell to the twentieth square.

In the end, Maverick Viñales broke the circuit record that Quartararo had set shortly before by shooting at 1: 36.584, to become the benchmark for the category.

In addition to him, Fabio Quartararo, Jack Miller (Ducati Desmosedici GP20), Takaaki Nakagami (Honda RC 213 V), Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP20), Danilo Petrucci (Ducati Desmosedici GP20), Brad Binder (KTM RC) entered the second direct classification. 16), Valentino Rossi (Yamaha YZR M 1), Pol Espargaró (KTM RC 16) and Joan Mir (Suzuki GSX RR).

They will have to go through the first classification Aleix Espargaró, the brothers Márquez, Alex and Marc, the Italian Andrea Dovizioso, Tito Rabat, Iker Lecuona and Alex Rins, who could be seen with a magneto therapy device on the right shoulder to improve in the extent of its possibilities its recovery.

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