Styrian MotoGP: Marc Marquez fastest in wet warm-up session from Jack Miller

Marc Marquez heads into the Styrian MotoGP as a heavy favorite after topping a wet morning warm-up ahead of Jack Miller and Maverick Vinales.
Marc Marquez , Styria MotoGP, 7 August 2021
Marc Marquez , Styria MotoGP, 7 August 2021
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Eight-time grand prix world c💙hampion Marc Marquez topped a wet Styrian MotoGP warm-up session from fellow wet weather specialist Jack Miller. 

Speaking of his wet weather prowess, Miller wasted no time in showing his strength in the tricky conditions as he immediately went fastest, however, Pol Espargaro was able to find even more time early on and g𒈔o top. 

Espargaro remained atop the leaderboard until team-mate Marquez went fastest with ten minutes remaining.&nbဣsp;

Iker Lecuona, who’s future in MotoGP looks to be coming to an end, then put his Tech 3 KTM top fr🧜om M🦄arquez and Miller. 

Lecuona and Marquez continued to exchan✤ge fastest times, but it was the eight-time world cham♑pion who eventually came out on top.

Lec༺uona was then relegated to fourth as Miller took second and Maverick Vinales finished as the quickest Yamaha in third place.  

Fifth was Francesco Bagnaia a𒁏head of his second place start for today’s race, while Prᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚamac riders Johann Zarco and pole sitter Jorge Martin were sixth and seventh. 

One rider who struggled quite considerably was championship leader Fabio Quartara𓃲ro as he finished 16th - over 1.7s down.

It was als♒o a꧙ slow start to race day for Suzuki riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins as they finished 19th and 20th. 

Plenty of bike swap rehearsals were practiced at the beginning of the session, as Alex Marquez, Rins and Enea Bastianini kicked things off. Marc Marquez then followed suit for the Repsol Honda team before🎉 Miller did the same.

With conditions expected to worsen as the day goes on, especially around 🙈the start time of ꦕthe MotoGP race, Miller and Marquez figure to be heavy favorites for victory.

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