Maverick Vinales dominates for Yamaha as last 2019 Moto...

Maverick Vinales continued Yamaha’s dominant conclusion to the 2019 MotoGP season with a clear advantage over the opposition on day one of the Jerez MotoGP test.

Continuing to put miles on the 2020 specification Yamaha M1, Vinales – who was quickest at last week’s Valencia test – showed the Iwata manufacturer appears to be fairly advanced with its latest generation model as he put 0.754s between himself and stablemate Fabio Quartararo on the sister Petronas SRT machine.

The Frenchman, who will ride a latest spec Yamaha M1 next season as a reward for his superb rookie campaign, spent the day trialling ‘prototype engine parts’ before switching to the same machine as Vinales when testing resumes in February at Sepang.

Having demonstrated strong form in Valencia, Suzuki was once again up at the sharp end with both Joan Mir and Alex Rins challenging in third and fourth on the new GSX-RR, ahead of Franco Moribdelli on the second of the Petronas Yamahas.

Marc Marquez was sixth best on the Repsol Honda but suffered another crash just before the lunchtime break and needed to be cleared by the medical staff to continue in the afternoon.

Cal Crutchlow followed up his Honda counterpart in seventh place, with Pol Espargaro putting in more impressive lap times on the brand-new KTM RC16 in eighth place.

Danilo Petrucci and Andrea Dovizioso rounded out the top ten for the factory Ducati team, ahead of Jack Miller and top Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro.

Elsewhere, Valentino Rossi was again the slowest Yamaha rider in 14^th position, Alex Marquez put in 70 laps on his official debut as a Repsol Honda rider (he ran under the LCR banner last week) and Eric Granado made his test debut for Avintia Ducati following the news Karel Abraham has been axed from the team to make way for Johann Zarco.

The second and final day of MotoGP testing takes place on Tuesday at Jerez, marking the last 2019 MotoGP outing before attention turns to February’s Sepang MotoGP test.

2019 Jerez MotoGP Test Results [Day 1 – 25 November]

Jerez 2019 MotoGP Test Results - Day 1 [Monday]
Pos	Rider	Nat	Team	Time	Laps
1	Maverick Viñales	SPA	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	1m 37.131	68
2	Fabio Quartararo	FRA	Petronas Yamaha SRT	1m 37.885	68
3	Joan Mir	ESP	Team Suzuki Ecstar	1m 38.012	56
4	Alex Rins	SPA	Team Suzuki Ecstar	1m 38.089	69
5	Franco Morbidelli	ITA	Petronas Yamaha SRT	1m 38.117	75
6	Marc Marquez	SPA	Repsol Honda Team	1m 38.227	69
7	Cal Crutchlow	GBR	LCR Honda	1m 38.253	66
8	Pol Espargaro	SPA	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	1m 38.348	56
9	Danilo Petrucci	ITA	Ducati Team	1m 38.358	48
10	Andrea Dovizioso	ITA	Ducati Team	1m 38.474	45
11	Jack Miller	AUS	Pramac Ducati	1m 38.492	52
12	Aleix Espargaro	SPA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	1m 38.500	53
13	Andrea Iannone	ITA	Aprilia Racing Team Gresini	1m 38.751	49
14	Valentino Rossi	ITA	Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP	1m 38.759	64
15	Tito Rabat	ESP	Reale Avintia Racing Ducati	1m 39.103	53
16	Sylvain Guintoli	FRA	Team Suzuki Ecstar	1m 39.148	63
17	Alex Marquez	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	1m 39.413	70
18	Bradley Smith	GBR	Aprilia Factory Racing	1m 39.558	67
19	Michele Pirro	ITA	Pramac Ducati	1m 39.652	27
20	Iker Lecuona	ESP	Red Bull KTM Tech3	1m 39.933	38
21	Brad Binder	RSA	Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	1m 39.980	67
22	Eric Granado	BRA	Reale Avintia Racing Ducati	1m 43.056	21
NC	Dani Pedrosa	ESP	Red Bull KTM Tech3	-	-

Maverick Vinales dominates for Yamaha as last 2019 MotoGP test begins

2019 Jerez MotoGP Test Results [Day 1 – 25 November]