Maverick Viñales showed once again that he is the main candidate to win the MotoGP Americas GP. After dominating Saturday in Austin, the Spanish rider started Sunday leading the warm-up from start to finish. Miguel Oliveira was 12th.
Continuing his superiority from yesterday, Viñales (Aprilia) entered this warm-up in the lead, completing the first flying lap 0.802s faster than Marc Márquez (Gresini/Ducati).
The positions remained the same, but the times dropped to 2m02s. In third place was Raúl Fernández (Trackhouse Racing/Aprilia), with Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GasGas Tech3/KTM) in fourth.
None of the top four improved on their third flying laps, but they maintained their positions. However, Acosta was overtaken by Álex Márquez (Gresini/Ducati) and Jorge Martín (Prima Pramac/Ducati).
Until the end, Viñales did not improve, but he kept the lead. Marc Márquez closed in, finishing 0.176s behind, while Fernández was third at 0.454s. Martín climbed to fourth with his final lap, with the top five closed by Álex Márquez.
Acosta finished sixth, just ahead of the official KTM bikes of Brad Binder and Jack Miller. The Portuguese Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing/Aprilia) finished in 12th place, while the reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati) could only manage 15th.
