German MotoGP, Sachsenring – Warm-up ResultsPosRiderNatTeamTime / DiffLapMax1Jorge MartinSPAPramac Ducati (GP22) 1’21.264s6 / 14298k2Miguel OliveiraPORRed Bull KTM (RC16) + 0.177s4 / 14298k3 / 14298k24 * 14298k24 * + ViñalesSPAAprilia Racing (RS-GP) + 0.302s6 / 14301k6Jack MillerAUSDucati Lenovo (GP22) + 0.315s9 / 14301k7Brad BinderRSARed Bull KTM / RC192439901630160169293001601620100160160001 MirSPASuzuki R (0.X) Y (13) 13297k11Francesco BagnaiaITADucati Lenovo (GP22) + 0.675s8 / 14302k12Pol EspargaroSPARepsol Honda (RC213V) + 0.742s5 / 11298k13Franco MorbidelliITAMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1) + 0.877s9 / 13295IT 0.RV 0.KTMA + 0.946s4 / 14294k16Takaaki NakagamiJPNLCR Honda (RC213V) + 1.001s10 / 13293k17Johann ZarcoFRAPramac Ducati (GP22) + 1.022s6 / 12298k 18Fabio Di GiannantonioITAGresini Ducati (GP21) * + 1.024s6 / 1229k U Yamaha RNF (YZR-M1) * + 1.075s3 / 11295k20Remy GardnerAUSKTM Tech3 (RC16) * + 1.079s6 / 14293k21Alex MarquezSPALCR Honda (RC213V) + 1.174s4 / 13297k22Andrea DoviziosoITAWithU Yamaha RNF 1. Brad 1. (RC213V) + 1.375s9 / 11297k
* Novice
Official Sachsenring MotoGP records:Best time:Francesco Bagnaia ITA Ducati 1m 19,765s (2022)Fastest lap of the race:Marc Marquez SPA Honda 1m 21.228s (2019)
Jorge Martin leads the morning warm-up for the 2022 German MotoGP at the Sachsenring, ahead of Miguel Oliveira and Aleix Espargaró.
The 20-minute session was the last chance for the riders to work on the endurance of the tires for this afternoon’s tough 30-lap race, which will take place in scorching heat wave conditions.
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Therefore, hard tires may seem like the obvious race option, but the additional initial grip of the middle (albeit followed by a much larger descent) makes Fabio Quartararo predict that there could be a 50/50 split. between the hard and medium rear tires for racing.
This variety was also reflected in the choice of tires for warming up, when air temperatures already exceeded 30 degrees, with Martin (eighth on the grid) setting his 1m 21.264 s best with tires. hard, followed by Oliveira (hard-hard). ), Aleix Espargaro (hard-medium), Marco Bezzecchi (hard-medium) and Maverick Vinales (hard-medium).
Jack Miller, who finished sixth but will have to serve a long lap penalty for falling under yellow flags in FP4, is sixth again this morning (medium-hard), ahead of Brad Binder (hard-hard) , Enea Bastianini (medium). -dur) and Joan Mir (dur-dur).
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The current champion and leader of the 2022 title Fabio Quartararo (hard-medium), who will start next to the pole qualifier Francesco Bagnaia (hard-hard), completed the top ten just ahead of the Italian.
Johann Zarco, Martin Pramac Ducati’s teammate completing the front row this afternoon, has fallen late in the warm-up.
Sunday will see a new German MotoGP winner for the first time since 2013, with Marc Márquez – unbeaten at the Sachsenring in the 125cc category in 2011 – absent from the event as he continues to recover from a fourth operation on the right arm. Márquez is again replaced by HRC test driver and Sachsenring home hero Stefan Bradl.
On the other hand, Fabio Quartararo leads the MotoGP classification by 22 points over Aleix Espargaró, after the victory in Catalonia was combined with an error in the last lap of the Aprilia rider.
But the pair have now been eliminated from the triple winner of the 2022 race, Enea Bastianini, whose third DNF in five races has left the Gresini Ducati 53 rider from Quartararo, with Johann Zarco (Pramac Ducati) and Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo) a prop.
Bastianini crew chief Alberto Giribuola is out this weekend due to Covid. Gresini’s technical coordinator, Sergio Verbena, is his replacement.
At Pramac Ducati, Jorge Martin is circulating for the first time since surgery to solve a nervous problem in his right hand.
Bagnaia and Alex Rins were eliminated by the horrific accident of Takaaki Nakagami’s first lap in the Barcelona race. Rins (who suffered a broken wrist) and Nakagami (kept in the hospital overnight) missed the post-race test as a result of the incident before returning this weekend.
However, Rins withdrew from the rest of the event after FP3 and will now set his sights on being fit for Assen next weekend, while Nakagami injured his shoulder even more on Saturday. .
Sachsenring is the shortest circuit on the MotoGP calendar, only 3.7 km long and with a longer straight of 700 m. The circuit also has a sharp counterclockwise bias of 10 turns to the left, compared to 3 turns to the right, one of which is the infamous “cascade” descent on turn 11.
Sachsenring also marks the midpoint of the scheduled 20-round world championship season.
2022 German Grand Prix Schedule – MotoGP (UK time)
Friday, June 17
8am – 8.40am – free Moto3 workouts 1
8.55am – 9.40am – MotoGP 1 free practice
9.55am – 10.35am – Moto2 1 free practice
12.15pm – 12.55pm – Moto3 2 free practice
1.10pm – 1.55pm – MotoGP 2 free practice
2.10pm – 2.50pm – Moto2 2 free practice
Saturday, June 18
8am – 8.40am – Moto3 3 free practice
8.55am – 9.40am – MotoGP 3 free practice
9.55am – 10.35am – Moto2 3 free practice
11.35am – 11.50am – Moto3 Classification 1
12pm – 12.15pm – Moto3 Classification 2
12.30pm – 1pm – MotoGP 4 free practice
13.10h – 13.25h – MotoGP Classification 1
13.35 – 13.50 – MotoGP Classification 2
2.10pm – 2.25pm - Moto2 Classification 1
14.35 – 14.50 – Moto2 2 classification
Sunday, June 19th
8am – 8.10am – Moto3 warm-up
8.20am – 8.30am – Moto2 warm-up
8.40am – 9am – MotoGP warm-up
10am – Moto3 race
11.20am – Moto2 race
1pm – MotoGP race
Barcelona: MotoGP World Championship Qualification RiderNatTeamPointsDiff.1 = Fabio QuartararoFRAMMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1) 147 2 = Aleix EspargaroSPAAprilia Racing (RS-GP) 125 (-22) 3 = Enea BastianiniITAGresini Ducati (GP21) 94 (-53han) 1 (-53han) ZarcoFRAPramac Ducati (GP22) 91 (-56) 5˅1Francesco BagnaiaITADucati Lenovo (GP22) 81 (-66) 6 ^ 1Brad BinderRSARed Bull KTM (RC16) 73 (-74) 7˅1Alex RinsSPASuzuki Ecstar (GSX- RR) 69 78) 8 ^ 2Joan MirSPASuzuki Ecstar (GSX-RR) 69 (-78) 9˅1Jack MillerAUSDucati Lenovo (GP22) 65 (-82) 10˅1Marc MarquezSPARepsol Honda (RC213V) 60 (-87) 11 = Miguel OliveiraPORRed Bull RC16) 57 (-90) 12 ^ 3Jorge MartinSPAPramac Ducati (GP22) 51 (-96) 13 ^ 1Maverick ViñalesSPAAprilia Racing (RS-GP) 46 (-101) 14 ^ 2Luca MariniITAMooney VR46 Ducati (GP22) 41 (-106) 15 ˅3Pol EspargaroSPARepsol Honda (RC213V) 40 (-107) 16˅3Takaaki NakagamiJPNLCR Honda (RC213V) 38 (-109) 17 = Marco BezzecchiITAMooney VR46 Ducati (GP21) * 30 (-117) 18 (-117) Marquez Honda (RC213 ) 18 (-109) 17 = Marco Bezzecchi -121) 19 = Franco MorbidelliITA Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) 22 (-12 5) 20 ^ 2 Darryn Binder RSAWithU Yamaha RNF (YZR-M1) * 10 (-137) 21˅1Fabio di GiannantonioITAGresini Ducati (GP21) * 8 (-139) 22˅1Andrea DoviziosoITAWith Yamaha RNF (YZR-M1) 8 ( -139) 23 = Remy Gard3ner (RC16) * 8 (-139) 24NARaul FernandezSPAKTM Tech3 (RC16) * 1 (-146)