2018 Valencia MotoGP Test Times Tuesday Final: Viñales Tops Timesheets With New Engine

Submitted by David Emmett on Tue, 2018-11-20 16:33

Maverick Viñales has ended the first day of the Valencia test as the fastest rider, as most of the factories focus on engines. Viñales and Rossi both tried one step of the 2019 engine, and both were satisfied with progress made, Viñales finishing fastest and Rossi third.

Marc Marquez ended the day in second, also working on a new engine and bike which he had also tried at Aragon, and like the Movistar Yamaha riders, has another step to test on Wednesday. Andrea Dovizioso finished as fourth fastest, using the shortened track time to set up the 2018 bike ready to make back-to-back comparisons with the 2019 bike ready for tomorrow.

Franco Morbidelli was the fastest of the bike switchers, ending the day in sixth, two thirds of a second behind Viñales, and under four tenths behind Rossi, the Italian adapting to the Petronas Yamaha M1 very rapidly. Morbidelli has the 2018 machine at his disposal. Pecco Bagnaia was fastest rookie on the Pramac Ducati, under a second behind Viñales.

The riders did not have a great deal of track time on Tuesday. The track started damp and didn't really dry out until noon, with everyone taking to the track some time before 1pm. The rain came around 3:30pm, putting a premature end to practice. Wednesday is likely to be dry all day, so the teams will be hoping to get out early for the final day of testing before heading to Jerez.

Times:

Pos	No	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Prev
1	12	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha M1	1:31.416
2	93	Marc Marquez	Honda RC213V	1:31.718	0.302	0.302
3	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha M1	1:31.845	0.429	0.127
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati GP19	1:31.846	0.430	0.001
5	6	Stefan Bradl	Honda RC213V	1:32.015	0.599	0.169
6	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha M1	1:32.085	0.669	0.070
7	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia RS-GP	1:32.095	0.679	0.010
8	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati GP19	1:32.100	0.684	0.005
9	44	Pol Espargaro	KTM RC16	1:32.179	0.763	0.079
10	51	Michele Pirro	Ducati GP19	1:32.220	0.804	0.041
11	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati GP18	1:32.396	0.980	0.176
12	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki GSX-RR	1:32.402	0.986	0.006
13	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda RC213V	1:32.539	1.123	0.137
14	43	Jack Miller	Ducati GP19	1:32.555	1.139	0.016
15	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki GSX-RR	1:32.787	1.371	0.232
16	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati GP18	1:32.834	1.418	0.047
17	5	Johann Zarco	KTM RC16	1:32.835	1.419	0.001
18	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda RC213V	1:32.959	1.543	0.124
19	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia RS-GP	1:33.291	1.875	0.332
20	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati GP18	1:33.301	1.885	0.010
21	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia RS-GP	1:33.709	2.293	0.408
22	94	Jonas Folger	Yamaha M1	1:33.810	2.394	0.101
23	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha M1	1:33.850	2.434	0.040
24	55	Hafizh Syahrin	KTM RC16	1:34.233	2.817	0.383
25	88	Miguel Oliveira	KTM RC16	1:35.118	3.702	0.885