{"id":137564,"date":"2025-09-12T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137564\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:16:09","slug":"franco-morbidelli-tops-misano-motogp-fp1-yamahas-v4-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137564\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Morbidelli tops Misano MotoGP FP1, Yamaha’s V4 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Franco Morbidelli began FP1 at Misano watching from the pit box as he served a ten-minute suspension for disobeying instructions from marshals when he rejoined after crashing in last Sunday’s Barcelona round.<\/p>\n

Morbidelli <\/a>then finished the session with a crash. But in-between the local star set the fastest lap time of 1m 31.342s to keep Fabio Quartararo\u2019s <\/a>Yamaha at bay by 0.249s.<\/p>\n

Quartararo ran a new soft front tyre at the end of the session, while most riders stuck with older soft fronts and medium rears.<\/p>\n

Fabio di Giannantonio<\/a> put both VR46 Ducatis in the top three, ahead of the Marquez brothers, Barcelona winner Alex getting the edge over title leader Marc by 0.011s.<\/p>\n

Luca Marini <\/a>put Honda a competitive sixth, ahead of the lead KTM of Pedro Acosta<\/a> and top Aprilia of Marco Bezzecchi<\/a>. Bezzecchi had the oldest rubber of any rider by the end of the session, with 22 laps front and rear.<\/p>\n

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Trackhouse RS-GP rider Raul Fernandez and Bezzecchi\u2019s factory team-mate Jorge Martin made it three Aprilias in a row. Reigning champion Martin was one of the few to try the medium front tyre.<\/p>\n

Francesco Bagnaia<\/a> began his home weekend in eleventh place, but only 0.587s from Morbidelli.<\/p>\n

\"Augusto <\/p>\n

Augusto Fernandez, Yamaha V4, 2025 San Marino MotoGP<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, all eyes were on wild-card Augusto Fernandez<\/a> as he took the new Yamaha V4 prototype to 21st place, but only 1.1s from Morbidelli, during its first official session.<\/p>\n

Fernandez had been 16th, ahead of M1 riders Miguel Oliveira and Alex Rins, when he pulled off track and parked the V4 due to a technical issue with 20 minutes to go.<\/p>\n

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There was no smoke from the engine, and Fernandez is likely to have reacted swiftly to a dashboard warning.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard, newly confirmed as remaining in the test riding role until the end of 2027, returned on his spare bike for the final ten minutes.<\/p>\n

For comparison, Fernandez had also been 0.9s slower than Quartararo during Friday practice on his previous wild-card appearance, with the Inline M1, at the (longer) Brno circuit.
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