The Frenchman, who already set the fastest time on Friday and took pole position at Silverstone two weeks ago, was the protagonist this Saturday morning and twice. For placing himself on the time table and for being a trifle away from losing his left arm, after Aleix Espargaró ran into him on his way and passed within millimeters of him, when he was traveling at more than 250 kilometers per hour. The Aprilia rider, who is still choking on the new chicane, will have to go through the first qualifying round (Q1) at the end of the eleventh, just two thousandths from the cut.
Behind Zarco, one tenth of the Pramac team rider, finished Quartararo, very solvent so far and who seems determined to fight for pole position in a while.
Jack Miller (third), Jorge Martin (fourth), Pecco Bagnaia (fifth) and Enea Bastianini (sixth), led the Ducati display in Austria, where the Italian company placed five of its Desmosedici among the top six bikes.
Alex Rins, seventh, was the first among the Suzuki riders, after the Spaniard’s best lap left him half a second behind Zarco. Brad Binder, eighth, emerged as the highest ranked KTM representative, while Maverick Viñales (ninth) and Joan Mir completed the top ten.
Aleix is choking the new chicane, as he himself admitted on Friday, and as shown in the times, by losing a lot at that point, to the point that with 13 minutes left in the session he suffered a crash when facing the exit of the chicane when he was 14th in qualifying. The Spaniard returned to the box, calmed down, returned to the track and climbed to ninth position one minute from the end, enough time for them to overtake him finishing 2 thousandths of tenth place, the last one that gives access to go directly to the Q2. For Espargaró this will be the second time this year that he must pass the Q1 cutoff, as it already happened in Austin, where he overcame it.
Apart from the oldest of the Espargaró, it is worth noting that the four Honda riders will have to see each other in the preliminary qualifying round (Q1), as will Franco Morbidelli, 17th, seven tenths behind Quartararo, his neighbor in the official Yamaha workshop .
The session ended with two crashes, the aforementioned of Aleix and that of Remy Gardner, last year’s Moto2 champion who continues to suffer tremendously to take control of the Tech3 KTM.
MotoGP P3 classification:
| Cla | # | Pilot | Motorcycle | laps | Weather | Difference | Interval | Km/h | Top speed | |
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| 1 | 5 |  Johann Zarco |
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Ducati | 22 | 1’28.964 | 175,055 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 20 | Fabio Quartararo |
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Yamaha | 22 | 1’29.117 | 0.153 | 0.153 | 174.754 | 0 |
| 3 | 43 |  Jack Miller |
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Ducati | 21 | 1’29.280 | 0.316 | 0.163 | 174,435 | 0 |
| 4 | 89 |  Jorge Martn |
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Ducati | 21 | 1’29.324 | 0.360 | 0.044 | 174.349 | 0 |
| 5 | 63 |  Pecco Bagnaia |
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Ducati | 19 | 1’29.377 | 0.413 | 0.053 | 174.246 | 0 |
| 6 | 23 | Enea Bastianini |
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Ducati | 19 | 1’29.457 | 0.493 | 0.080 | 174,090 | 0 |
| 7 | 42 | Alex Rins |
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Suzuki | 23 | 1’29.473 | 0.509 | 0.016 | 174.059 | 0 |
| 8 | 33 |  Brad Binder |
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KTM | 20 | 1’29.521 | 0.557 | 0.048 | 173.965 | 0 |
| 9 | 12 | Maverick Viales |
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Aprilia | 22 | 1’29.523 | 0.559 | 0.002 | 173.961 | 0 |
| 10 | 36 | Joan Mir |
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Suzuki | 19 | 1’29.538 | 0.574 | 0.015 | 173.932 | 0 |
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