MotoGP | GP Valencia FP1: Miller ahead of Morbidelli, Quartararo in difficulty

MotoGP European GP Valencia Free Practice 1 – The first free practice session of the MotoGP class in Valencia (where the European GP, ​​twelfth stage of the 2020 MotoGP is scheduled for Sunday, ed.) was held with rain tires due to the rain that had fallen since yesterday.

Valentino Rossi is absent, out of the paddock awaiting the result of the latest swab test for Covid-19, carried out this morning. The "Doctor" after the swab test yesterday 5 November 2020 was negative, headed to Valencia and is now awaiting the response of the one carried out today, a response which should arrive this evening and which in the event of a negative result would allow him to return to riding his Yamaha M1, entrusted today to Garrett Gerloff, Yamaha GRT Superbike rider.

The fastest in FP1 was Jack Miller, who took the Ducati Pramac to the top with a time of 1:42.063. The Australian preceded the Italian-Brazilian Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha Petronas) by almost half a second, exactly 0.467s behind.

Third time for the Honda of tester Stefan Bradl, who also replaces the injured Marc Marquez in Valencia. The German is ahead of the Ducati of Frenchman Johann Zarco and team-mate Alex Marquez.

Sixth time for the official Ducati of Danilo Petrucci, who placed his Desmosedici ahead of the KTMs of Pol Espargarò and Miguel Oliveira and team-mate Andrea Dovizioso. Closing the Top Ten is Maverick Vinales, who places his Yamaha ahead of Takaaki Nakagami's Team LCR Honda.

Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Pramac) achieved the fourteenth time while Garrett Gerloff, making his MotoGP debut, finished with a good sixteenth time. Immediately behind the Texan we find world championship leader Joan Mir (Suzuki), while Fabio Quartararo, the first of his pursuers in the world rankings, is actually last, twenty-first fastest, behind our Lorenzo Savadori, who will race the last three races on the Aprilia in place of Bradley Smith.