Franco Morbidelli scores the best time in the Free 3 of Aragon marked by falls by Andrea Dovizioso with a Ducati still in trouble and Fabio Quartararo, thrown from his Yamaha Petronas and violently crashed to the ground. The World Championship leader got up in pain and was then transported on a stretcher to the medical center to assess his condition in view of the afternoon qualifying. All the Ducatis in qualifying from Q1.
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Yamaha for better or for worse on Saturday morning of the MotoGP in Aragon. In the final minutes of the third of the four free practice sessions scheduled, the leader of the World Championship Fabio Quartararo lost control of his M1 on the curb outside between curves 13 and 14, violently hitting the ground with the left side. Fabio got up with the help of a commissioner but after a few steps he accepted the invitation of the medical staff to lie down on the stretcher to be transported to the circuit medical center. The first indications are quite reassuring and radiographs have already ruled out fractures. Quartararo, however, is very sore and therefore, although the news is rather reassuring, the “Diablo” will not be in the center for the rest of the day ..
Quartararo was not the only one to end up on the ground this morning. It did too Andrea Dovizioso, with a Ducati that – between the factory team, Pramac and Esponsorama – was unable to place only one of its bikes directly in Q2, the decisive phase of qualifying. In the “combined” in fact, the Ducati sextet is compact and occupies positions from thirteenth to eighteenth: in the order Dovizioso, Zarco, Bagnaia, Rabat, Miller and Petrucci. With important gaps, between the second and one of the Forlì and the second and three tenths of the Terni, winner of the French GP last weekend.
As mentioned, Franco Morbidelli set the best time in FP3, Quartararo’s teammate in the Yamaha Petronas team, ahead of Cal Crutchlow (Honda LCR) and Pol Espargarò (KTM Factory). In the combined ranking of the times of the first three practice sessions of the weekend, the Italian driver is second, with a time of only 88 thousandths higher than that of Maverick Vinales who had dominated the two rounds on Friday and at Aragon is the only rider of the Yamaha “factory” team after the forfeit of Valentino Rossi, forced by the positivity at Covid-19 to skip this appointment and also the next one, still scheduled at Aragon next weekend. With Yamaha still uncertain whether to deploy only one M1 again or who to send to the track to replace the “Doctor”.
Quartararo is third of the “combined” in front of Crutchlow and Pol Espargarò. to complete the lot of riders directly admitted to the pole position hunt we find (from sixth to tenth place) Joan Mir with the factory Suzuki, Alex Marquez with the Honda HRC, Takaaki Nakagami with the LCR one, Alex Rins with the other Suzuki Ecstar and Aleix Espargarò with Team Gresini’s Aprilia.
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