MotoGP | Thailand GP FP1: Yamaha are back with Vinales and Rossi [Video]

MotoGP Gp Buriram Free Practice 1 – Maverick Vinales wins the first free practice session of the Thai Grand Prix, fifteenth stage of the 2018 Motorcycle World Championship.

The Yamaha rider stopped the clock at 1:31.220, still 'high' compared to the best overall performance recorded during the winter tests.

Behind the Spaniard, his teammate Valentino Rossi is 270 thousandths behind. The two Yamaha riders, unlike the official Ducatis and Hondas, mounted new tires on both the front and rear in the final minutes of the session.

A result that came as a bit of a surprise given the pessimism shown by the two drivers on Thursday. It seems no changes have been made compared to the Aragon GP, ​​and the data from the winter tests, considering the terrible result, should not have given an advantage. If the flying lap went very well for the two M1s, the same cannot be said about the race pace, which still seems slow compared to the 'competition'.

Third time for Andrea Dovizioso, who mounted new tires only on the rear in the last session, followed by Jack Miller (same tire strategy as his brand mate) and Marc Marquez, who, unlike the riders in front of him, did everything shift with the same set of tires.

With a delay of about half a second, Johann Zarco finished in sixth position, like his brand mates he also took to the track with new tires at the end of the session and returned to the positions that count. Behind the Frenchman, the Suzuki of Andrea Iannonne and the Honda of the rookie Takaaki Nakagami.

Danilo Petrucci and a surprising Scott Redding, on Aprilia, complete the top ten.

Franco Morbidelli finished fifteenth, while Jorge Lorenzo, still in pain after the injury suffered in Aragon, finished seventeenth. The Majorcan was recording excellent times at the end of the session, but a mistake on his last lap prevented him from entering the top ten.