Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda) heads the third from Jorge Lorenzo (Repsol Honda) and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia). This, after little brother Alex, whose last win came in Japan in 2017, survived the demolition derby that was Moto2 and brought joy to Catalans everywhere. Quarto Andrea Dovizioso, quinto Valentino Rossi In the early laps, he was pushed back into second by on-form satellite-team Ducati rider Jack Miller, who had also started from the front row of the grid. While the in-line fours like Yamaha and Suzuki favoured rookie riders, he said, “most of the race wins have been by V4s.”. When Saturday dawned wet, it confirmed that the three would be joining a gaggle of big names amongst the great unwashed in Q1, names like Cal Crutchlow, Franco Morbidelli, and Rins. Tom Luthi (Dynavolt Kalex) led away, but after Marquez took over on lap three the Swiss veteran dropped back. It was the Scotsman’s first pole of the season and the third in his career, secured by almost two tenths ahead of Tony Arbolino (Snipers Honda) and rookie Ai Ogura (Honda Team Asia). Fabio Quartararo’s satellite Petronas Yamaha had been fastest in the morning, and the 20-year-old French rising star was quicker again in the afternoon to place a strong third. It was Navarro’s second pole in a row, and like all he spoke of how difficult the conditions were. Wacky Le Mans weather made for exciting qualifying … but with no surprise about the name at the top. Marc Marquez’s victory was the 300th premier class win for Honda. Le Mans, 17 maggio 2019 - Marc Marquez conquista la pole position della MotoGp in Francia. Valentino Rossi knew he had to get through Q1 to have any chance on Sunday. They were joined on the front row by Alex Marquez (EG VDS Kalex), who had managed, if only narrowly, to stay upright. Enea Bastianini (Italtrans Kalex) was tenth; with Nicolo Bulega (SKY VR46 Kalex) and Bo Bensneyder (RW NTS) rounding out the dozen potentially straight through to Q2 tomorrow. Moto2™ Q1 starts at 15:05, with Q2 rounding off … “But the same was true of the Ducati. Tutte le info sul GP di Francia MotoGP 2019 a Le Mans: orari tv sky/tv8, circuito, meteo, risultati libere, qualifiche e gara [in aggiornamento] It is the Italian veteran’s third different team this year. Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) and Alex Rins (Ecstar Suzuki) completed the top ten. di Valeria Aiello . Rookie Quartararo, fastest on Friday morning, was tenth, ahead of factory Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales, fastest on Friday afternoon, but whose switch to wet tyres yielded no reward in Q2. One notably absent innovation was Honda’s carbon-fibre-clad chassis, used at Jerez by test rider Stefan Bradl, and tried the next day by Marc Marquez. While the MotoGP project, now in its third year, continues to show steady progress, KTM is facing its own problems in Moto2, with the steel-tube chassis having adapted less successfully to the new Triumph power than rivals. Marquez set the time early in the session, fell off on his next lap, but picked the bike up and carried on for the full 15 minutes without pitting. Submitted by Zara Daniela on Fri, 2019-05-17 09:06. Orari Tv MotoGP. The observation makes perfect sense, but was also completely out of order. Third-placed Aron Canet (Sterilgarda KTM) got the best of it, after colliding and ending the hopes of rookie Kaito Toba (Honda Team Asia), who had come through to challenge for the lead in a remarkable rider from an erstwhile 12th, then out of the leading pack. Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM) snitched fourth ahead of Vierge with two laps to go, six seconds adrift of the winner. It was second Petronas rider Franco Morbidelli, also through from Q1, who placed sixth to complete the second row. Le Mans, 19 maggio 2019 - MotoGp. The 2019 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 71st F.I.M. Marquez was buzzing around the top of the timesheets in each session. His pole position for tomorrow’s French GP was his 55th. One suspects that the legal departments of the partners approve of every word. The second European round of the 2019 MotoGP season is set to be held on the Le Mans Bugatti track. Once Marquez had stiff-armed Miller and cleared off, the battle for second place commenced, involving three Ducatis and Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha. Pol Espargaro, who crashed the Red Bull KTM twice, was seventh, ahead of his Aprilia-mounted brother Aleix; with Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda) ninth. It was achieved in some style, on a track too damp for slicks but not really wet enough for predictable performance from wet tyres. 2021 Grand Prix of France. American ride Joe Roberts (American Racing Kalex) placed 29th. Scottish racer John McPhee took the win in the Moto3 race. He must use the advantage of the bike, because it does have some advantages, and we must improve its weaknesses. “Today was one of the most difficult days,” he said. Argentine GP winner Jaume Masia (Bester KTM) came through from 23rd on the Grid to cross the line eighth, but a 2.2-second penalty for exceeding track limits dropped him to 12th. “The way I had to ride that bike was different: braking really hard then make a V of the corner.” It meant he was unavoidably rubbing up against other fast riders with higher corner speed. Had he trailed any other rider, and with nothing to lose, he would have made the attempt. Alongside was rookie Lukas Tulovic (Kiefer KTM), also through from Q1. le pagelle del Gp di Francia 2019 a Le Mans.. Marc Marquez, 10.Gara perfetta. Luca Marini (SKY VR46 Kalex) lost out, the first loser not to escape from Q1, and will start from 19th. Japanese rookie Ai Ogura was top Moto3 rider on the Team Asia Honda, better than a tenth ahead of Jerez winner Niccolo Antonelli and his SIC58 Honda team-mate Tatsuki Suzuki. An all-new chassis arrived at Le Mans, with immediate benefits. “When I saw the gap was growing I pushed harder, then I could ease back.”. This helped their speed, but didn’t save both of them from crashing, so they had to make their way to parc ferme on foot. It is very sensitive. He was fourth, just over three tenths off Vinales; with the top 12 all within one second. As expected, FP3 was run on rain tires. After four poles and six podiums in two years on a satellite Yamaha, the former double Moto2 champion has been far outranked by KTM team-mate Pol Espargaro. He had switched back to the standard Honda seat, giving him “in terms of benefit, a small step, but a small step is like a victory. There was enough left, after the two days, he joked, “to make an aquarium when we get home”. This was revealed by technical chief Mike Leitner, who was Pedrosa’s crew chief for many years in both 250 and MotoGP class at Honda. Tony Arbolino (Honda) was sixth, then Aron Canet (KTM) and Gabriel Rodrito (Honda). Dorna has a contract with the FIM giving them this entitlement, and when they took over the production-based series in 2013 the Monopolies Commission approved the deal. After post-race tests at Jerez, most of the new equipment seen there had been put away again – with the exception of Aprilia’s new swing-arm-mounted aerodynamic scoop, and Yamaha’s second-generation aero fairing, used here by Vinales and Morbidelli, and tested by Rossi. 16 maggio 2019 - Gli orari TV per seguire in diretta e in differita il GP di Francia 2019 a Le Mans Condividi su Facebook; Dovi felt he could have ridden better. Scott does. Jerez winner Niccolo Antonelli (SIC 58 Honda) leads row three from Raul Fernandez (Sama KTM) and Kaito Toba (Honda Team Asia); with a third Q1 veteran, Sergio Garcia (EG Honda) completing the top ten. This left Gabriel Rodrigo (Kommerling Honda) in fourth, ahead of erstwhile leader Andrea Migno (Bester KTM), Toba, Celestino Vietti (SKY VR46 KTM), Kazuki Masaki (BOE KTM) and late-comers Jakub Kornfeil (Redox KTM) and Raul Fernandez (Sama KTM) in tenth. Honda had brought nothing new to Le Mans, he continued, but for an electronic improvement that could prove valuable in avoiding a repetition of his crash while leading at the CotA in Texas, believed to have been triggered by an electronic glitch in the engine braking program. Such would be the conditions in Q1, in which Franco Morbidelli turned in the best lap on rain tires and Valentino Rossi, jumping out of the gate on slicks, beat the field by 1½ seconds, putting both in Q2 as the rain picked up steam and the track went from dryish to humid to damp to moist to wettish. All of which came at the expense of Suzuki rookie Joan Mir, and the aforementioned Mssrs. Jorge Lorenzo was fending off rumours started in the Spanish press that HRC are ready to jettison him at the end of this season if his results don’t improve forthwith. “I like the track, and we found our set-up very fast, and I felt good with the bike, also with the tyres … but we need to keep working. Viñales, Marquez and Miller put in the best times, followed in close order by Rins, Zarco and Petrucci. Marcel Schrotter (Dynavolt Kalex) was next, then morning leader Andrea Locatelli (Italtrans Kalex) from Simone Corsi (Tasca Racing Kalex) and Alex Marquez (VDS Kalex). A bad first lap left new fast Frenchman Fabio Quartararo down in 15th, but he set fastest lap of the race as he forged through to an eventual eighth. Jack Miller (Pramac Ducati) was next, the only rider not to improve in the afternoon session, but still scraping into tenth. Le Mans MotoGP Results 2019. This puts him equal with Valentino Rossi in modern-era racing; and just three behind Mick Doohan’s record of 58. Repsol Honda rider Marc Marquez took a third pole in five races. In line with other Honda riders, he said “the front is not the best point. This is completely new, and the front is really good … I think it’s the first time I’ve ridden a KTM without any chatter,” he said. To everyone’s surprise, the 2019 Le Mans battle was a dry race, the riders, always with a complaint at the ready, complaining that they had not had enough practice time in the dry. “Now we are going to see how we work together this weekend,” he said. Second EG-VDS rider Xavi Vierge had a spell in second, before Simone Corsi (Tasca Kalex) came through, only to slip off on lap ten. Heartthrob Quartararo, whom some analysts had tagged for the win today, started in trouble from 10th place, worked his way backwards into the low teens early on before recovering during the second half of the race and finishing a respectable 8th. I need more time to adapt,” he said, drawing parallels with Zarco’s difficulties on the KTM. I am having accidents. This matched the last race in Spain, although he went backwards from there. It’s a good direction, but not the answer.”. Announcers Steve and Matt seem to have overlooked the fact that the 2019 Honda RC213V has as much grunt as the Ducati Desmosedici, remarking lap after lap how the chasing Ducs were unable to rocket past Marquez on the main straight as in years past. 2019 Le Mans MotoGP FP1 Result: A Homely Welcome For Quartararo. 2019 Le Mans MotoGP Preview When Marc Marquez won the Spanish Grand Prix two weeks ago in Jerez, he regained the championship points lead … Petrucci spent the last few laps seriously dogging teammate Dovizioso, and looked fully capable of mounting a challenge, your basic late dive underneath the foe, on the last lap. The first race did not disappoint in its usual serving of thrills and variety, the pack closing up at the end for a fraught final lap – with Scotsman John McPhee at the front of it at the end. The Suzukis were struggling, and KTM had but one rider, Pol Espargaro, who seemed capable of wrestling the RC16 to a top ten finish. “Conditions were best at the start, and I crashed when I tried to improve,” he said. Next came the KTMs of Bester Capital’s Andrea Migno and the Sama Nieto team’s Albert Arenas, in his second race back from injury. Valentino Rossi would finagle his way onto the second row after a forgettable couple of days. “I made some improvement from Q1 to Q2, but when I crashed I was on the limit, so it is always possible,” he said. “The previous chassis had problems at the front and the back. Click here for all of the latest Road Racing news. Baldassarri brought down substitute rider Mattia Pasini (Petronas Kalex), with front-running Corsi and Remy Gardner (ONEXOX Kalex) also on the crash list, along with Sam Lowes (Federal Oils Kalex).