Tech 3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco fell a tenth of a second shy of the lap record in Qatar to lead the final MotoGP pre-season test day ahead of Valentino Rossi. Zarco moved into first place with exactly two hours left on the clock, holding a lead of half a tenth over LCR Honda man Cal Crutchlow with his 1m54.429s effort. The Frenchman then improved on two more occasions half an hour later, stretching his gap to over four tenths with a time of 1m54.029s, just 0.102s slower than Jorge Lorenzo's lap record set in 2008. While Crutchlow did not lower his own benchmark for the rest of the session, he held second until the final hour when first Andrea Dovizioso and then Rossi demoted him. Rossi,...
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