Cal Crutchlow is in a state of grace.
The Yamaha Tech3 rider dominated the new half hour FP4 session with a blistering lap of 1:55.
655 and was the first rider to break the 1.
56 barrier this weekend and he was followed by Marc Marquez who also joined him under the 1.
56s but he did it on hard tires and finally didn’t run off track.
Jorge Lorenzo took the third spot on the timesheets and while he was +0.
485s adrift, but it looks that his race has improved by at least two tenths of a second from yesterday.
Valentino Rossi was fourth followed by LCR Honda’s Stefan Bradl, an excellent Andrea Dovizioso who was a little more than seven tenths from Crutchlow.
Dani Pedrosa seems to have solved his corner entry problems even if he was only 7th, but his best lap time was done on very used soft tires (more than the race distance).
Nicky Hayden was 8th followed by who Ben Spies suffered a crash when his Ducati folded as he was outside the racing line.
He’ll have to start the Q1 with a bruised and battered left shoulder.
Alvaro Bautista closed out the top ten.
Yonny Hernandez was another rider who also suffered a crash.
MotoGP Qatar FP4 results: 01- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – 1’55.
655 02- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.
342 03- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
485 04- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
506 05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 0.
657 06- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 0.
723 07- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.
743 08- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
230 09- Ben Spies – Ignite Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
405 10- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 1.
408 11- Andrea Iannone – Energy T.
I.
Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
463 12- Bradley Smith – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
798 13- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 1.
799 14- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 2.
733 15- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – ART GP13 – + 2.
811 16- Yonny Hernandez – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP13 – + 2.
811 17- Hector Barbera – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 3.
091 18- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki – + 3.
133 19- Hiroshi Aoyama – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR – + 3.
161 20- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 3.
463 21- Claudio Corti – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki – + 3.
532 22- Lukas Pesek – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW – + 3.
682 23- Bryan Staring – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP13 – + 4.
212 24- Michael Laverty – Paul Bird Motorsport – PBM 01 – + 4.
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