When trying to predict what the outcome of Sunday’s race will be, there’s no better place to look than the FP4 timesheets. His last lap in FP4, on a 15-lap old front medium and an eight-lap old hard rear, was a 1:39.870. A 1:40.525 on 20 and 13 lap old tyres shows Viñales has good pace, but from P6 on the grid, the Spaniard needs to get a good launch to try and utilise it. His best lap – when the front was 24 laps old, race distance – was a 1:40.380, before he set a 1:40.399 four laps later when the same tyre was 28 laps old. Morbidelli’s fastest time, a 1:40.704, was set on a 20-lap old medium front and 13-lap old medium rear, which is solid enough pace from the Italian. That could change in the 24 hours between FP4 and lights out, though.

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