British MotoGP: Espargaro fastest in warm-up, Marquez crashes again

Aleix Espargaro tops his first MotoGP warm-up session of the season, while Repsol Honda rider Marc Marquez suffered his second fall of the weekend.
Aleix Espargaro, British MotoGP, 27 August 2021
Aleix Espargaro, British MotoGP, 27 August 2021
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Aleix Espargaro heads into today’s British MotoGP fastest 🍷in morning warm-up, while Marc Marquez c⛦rashed for the second time this weekend. 

Pole sitter for today’s race, Pol Espargaro set the pace early on with a 2:01.649s - one place ahead of brother Alei꧋x. 

The Aprilia man then consolidated what’s been an impressive weekend thus far by going top.&nbs💙p;

However, the man with the best race pace based off FP4, Fabio Quartararo set the first sub 2﷽m 01s lap of the session to lead the way.

Ene🐻a Bastianini became the first crasher of the session after suffering another fall at the tricky turn 12. 

With six minutes remaini♎ng, Takaaki Nakagami th🐻en produced a stunning lap to go over two tenths quicker than Quartararo - not the type of pace we’ve seen from the Japanese rider so far this weekend. 

Fellow Honda rider Marc Marquez then suffered his second crash of the weekend - this time at tur🌟n eight. 

Aleix Espargaro then jumped back to the topꦯ of the s༒tandings, while Iker Lecuona moved up to fourth. 

With less than five minutes to go Jake Dixon suffered a fall in sector four which is also his second of the weeღkend.

Espargaro held onto top spo𒉰t, while Nakagami and Pol Espargaro rounded out the top three. 

Fourth was the top Ducati of Jorge Martin who starts today’🍸s race 🌊from the same position. 

Fifth was Lecuona - his best MotoGP warm-up session of the season. Sixth was championship leader Quartarar꧃o who starts third for the race. 

🌜It was a better beginning to race day for Suzuki riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins as they claimed seventh and eighth, while Jack Miller and Marquez rounded out the top ten༒. 

Francesco Bagnaia was only 17th for the factory Ducati team, while fourth in the championship Johann Zarco was 15th in what’s been a di♒fficult weekend for the French riderꦐ so far.

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