Yamaha in power at Aragon: Vinales at the top in Free Practice 1 (1: 49.866) ahead of Morbidelli and Quartararo. The best is that of Miller (12th), Tardozzi: “Little grip, better not to risk”. Absent Rossi, tested positive for coronavirus. Meregalli on the hypothesis of replacing him at Aragon 2: “Lorenzo? I won’t rule him out, even if he needs to turn”. Arbolino also skips the GP, negative but in quarantine: a person next to him in his post Le Mans flight tested positive
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The first MotoGP free practice session ends (shift moved to 10.25 due to low temperatures), Yamaha protagonists: apart from the first few minutes they remain in command for the whole session, without settling for the top. Three Yamahas in the top three, in fact, for almost all of the 45 minutes of Free Practice 1. In the end, the best is the official one Vinales, author of the time of 1: 49.866, behind him the Petronas couple Morbidelli-Quartararo. Back le Ducati: Miller 12th, Petrucci 15th, Dovizioso 17th, Bagnaia 21st. But Tardozzi is confident: “In these conditions the riders didn’t force. There is no reason to push, there is no grip. In the afternoon the situation will improve, I expect to be further ahead in the standings”.
Meregalli: “Replacing Rossi with Lorenzo? I won’t rule him out for Valencia”
Rossi out after testing positive for coronavirus, the Yamaha Meregalli team director at the microphones of Sky clarified: “We have 10 days to find a replacement. For sure we will not do it for Aragon 1, we have not yet talked about whether to do it for Aragon 2. If Valentino is not able to return to Valencia we will take more in Consider the Lorenzo hypothesis, even if Jorge, as we saw in the Portimao tests, needs to lap a bit more, he has lost the habit of speed “.
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