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With the difficult weather conditions on Phillip Island, Australia gave harsh taste to every rider in MotoGP.

The temperature on the track was 16°C as it was constantly pouring until midday. However, post-lunch the weather went on to become worst to better and the track warmed till 36°C.

However, the stormy weather is predicated all through this coming weekend at Phillip Island is going to make the task more difficult for the riders.


We saw riders making most of it in the rainy morning conditions in today’s FP2. Marquez on his Honda RC213V quickly regained the composure in these conditions and finished on the sixth spot with a time of 1’29.421 on his 19th lap.

Jorge Lorenzo too managed to improvise his time after changes were made. He made 1’41.958 in FP1 for 18th and improved to a 1’30.706 for 16th in FP2. He later switched to the softer tire to show better improvisation.

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Marc Marquez was later saved the day from 70.8° of the lean angle at Turn 10 on his RC213V that made the audience happy.

While Marquez stood 6th, Lorezo stood 16th in the table.

Quotes

Marc Marquez

“Our feeling today was not bad, I’m happy. In our fast lap we couldn’t find the best way to have a good lap time but our rhythm is there. Honestly, I’m riding better than I expected because I knew Viñales and Yamaha would be strong here but we are not far from them. We’ll now keep working, it wasn’t a bad first day.

Of course the weather is still looking very complicated for the rest of the weekend so we will have to see what happens. Today we broke another record with the save. My brother did a great save in Motegi so I had to try and equal it but I think his is still best! At the end of FP2 I came up to Jorge on my flying lap while he was going slowly, we made a bit of contact but Jorge and I already spoke about what happened.”


Jorge Lorenzo

“Today we started in the wet and my feeling at the start was OK. In the afternoon I was struggling a bit with corner entry when using the medium tyre, but with the soft tyre I was able to go a second and a half faster straight away.

It helped our position at the end quite a lot. Unfortunately, right at the end I didn’t look back to see I had three or four riders behind me, I tried to be as far on the inside as possible but Marc and I were a little too close.”

FP2 Results at Phillip Island

Pos.RiderNumNationTeamConstructorTime/Gap
1VINALES Maverick12SPAMonster Energy Yamaha MotoGPYamaha1’28.824
2DOVIZIOSO Andrea4ITADucati TeamDucati0.496
3CRUTCHLOW Cal35GBRLCR HondaHonda0.501
4PETRUCCI Danilo9ITADucati TeamDucati0.503
5MILLER Jack43AUSPramac RacingDucati0.520
6MARQUEZ Marc93SPARepsol Honda TeamHonda0.597
7ROSSI Valentino46ITAMonster Energy Yamaha MotoGPYamaha0.612
8RINS Alex42SPATeam Suzuki EcstarSuzuki0.648
9MORBIDELLI Franco21ITAPetronas Yamaha SRTYamaha0.894
10ESPARGARO Aleix41SPAAprilia Racing Team GresiniAprilia0.967
11MIR Joan36SPATeam Suzuki EcstarSuzuki1.051
12ABRAHAM Karel17CZEReale Avintia RacingDucati1.173
13IANNONE Andrea29ITAAprilia Racing Team GresiniAprilia1.346
14BAGNAIA Francesco63ITAPramac RacingDucati1.602
15ZARCO Johann5FRALCR HondaHonda1.617
16LORENZO Jorge99SPARepsol Honda TeamHonda1.882
17ESPARGARO Pol44SPARed Bull KTM Factory RacingKTM2.035
18KALLIO Mika82FINRed Bull KTM Factory RacingKTM2.041
19SYAHRIN Hafizh55MALRed Bull KTM Tech 3KTM2.116
20OLIVEIRA Miguel88PORRed Bull KTM Tech 3KTM2.580
21RABAT Tito53SPAReale Avintia RacingDucati2.635
22QUARTARARO Fabio20FRAPetronas Yamaha SRTYamaha
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