The australian Jack Miller beat the french Fabio Quartararo by just 29 milliseconds in FP3 of the MotoGP British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Miller set a best time of 1: 59.288 to overtake Quartararo, who with a sprained ankle in his left foot was one of the few riders in the category and the only one among the fastest, who could not lower his record for the day on Friday.
Before starting FP3, the first casualty had already occurred, that of the Italian Lorenzo Savadori who, with great pride, tried to pilot his Aprilia RS-GP, but at the end of the day he recognized that he was not in the best physical condition after the fracture of the right malleolus that occurred in the spectacular accident he suffered with the Spanish Dani Pedrosa, tester from KTM, at the Red Bull circuit in Spielberg.
MotoGP on DAZN available live and on demand. Subscribe and start your month for free
Marc Márquez, who also suffered a very hard crash yesterday, was slow to catch up, although at the end of the session he “woke up” to drop below two minutes and go straight into Q2 with the tenth fastest time. His compatriot Alex Rins, winner in 2019, he was not so lucky and in one of his last laps launched he ended up on the ground, in the fateful turn twelve and condemned to go through Q1 when he was fifteenth.
The Spanish Jorge Martin achieved fourth place ahead of the Italian “Pecco” Bagnaia and of Pol Espargaro, who was seen to be more effective and with better performance than on other occasions with his new motorcycle. The Italian Valentino rossi He was particularly active and effective as he made it to the top five of the timesheets although in the end he finished seventh, just ahead of Joan Mir, the South African Brad binder and from spanish Marc Márquez.
They were left out of Q2 pilots like Johann Zarco, Takaaki Nakagami, Cal Crutchlow, substitute for the Spanish Maverick Viñales in the official Yamaha team, and the Spanish Alex Márquez, Alex Rins or Iker Lecuona.