The fourth and final practice session at Misano ahead of qualifying, saw Marc Marquez still on top of the timesheets, but the Repsol Honda rookie also crashed out in highspeed lowside at turn 13 while he was trying to close the line under braking.
Fortunately Marquez was unhurt even if the right arm of his leathers was scraped off.
Posting a best time of 1:33.
912 he was able to lower his FP3 – albeit by just 0.
063s, but still no one could hold a candle to him as Jorge Lorenzo – who this time didn’t do his usual long run – was a little more than two tenths adrift.
Alvaro Bautista jumped to third and he was followed by Valentino Rossi in fourth.
The Italian Yamaha rider was asked by Bridgestone to try a hard rear tire, so he spent a few laps testing the harder compound during the FP4 instead of improving his lap times.
Fifth went to Dani Pedrosa who seems to have some trouble keeping his RCV on the line, while Andrea Dovizioso was sixth but over a second adrift from Marquez.
Cal Crutchlow finally broke out of his lowly positions as he moved into 7th and 1.
230s from the top of the timesheets and for the first time he’ll have to qualify in Q1 in order make the Q2 cut.
Stefan Bradl, Michele Pirro and Andrea Iannone closed out the top ten, while Nicky Hayden couldn’t move out of 12th and he was behind ART rider Aleix Espargaro.
2013 MotoGP Misano FP4 results:1 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 285.
0 1′33.
912 2 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 284.
5 1′34.
125 0.
213 / 0.
213 3 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 284.
2 1′34.
418 0.
506 / 0.
293 4 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 282.
1 1′34.
447 0.
535 / 0.
029 5 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 285.
2 1′34.
826 0.
914 / 0.
379 6 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 281.
3 1′35.
081 1.
169 / 0.
255 7 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 278.
4 1′35.
142 1.
230 / 0.
061 8 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 284.
4 1′35.
171 1.
259 / 0.
029 9 51 Michele PIRRO ITA Ignite Pramac Racing Ducati 277.
7 1′35.
215 1.
303 / 0.
044 10 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Energy T.
I.
Pramac Racing Ducati 279.
0 1′35.
250 1.
338 / 0.
035 11 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 270.
7 1′35.
318 1.
406 / 0.
068 12 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 278.
9 1′35.
505 1.
593 / 0.
187 13 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 281.
9 1′35.
656 1.
744 / 0.
151 14 5 Colin EDWARDS USA NGM Mobile Forward FTR Kawasaki 270.
5 1′35.
794 1.
882 / 0.
138 15 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Came IodaRacing Project 266.
5 1′35.
812 1.
900 / 0.
018 16 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 268.
0 1′35.
988 2.
076 / 0.
176 17 71 Claudio CORTI ITA NGM Mobile Forward FTR Kawasaki 268.
7 1′36.
257 2.
345 / 0.
269 18 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Avintia Blusens FTR 271.
9 1′36.
477 2.
565 / 0.
220 19 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Avintia Blusens FTR 271.
0 1′36.
626 2.
714 / 0.
149 20 68 Yonny HERNANDEZ COL Paul Bird Motorsport ART 265.
8 1′37.
218 3.
306 / 0.
592 21 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing ART 268.
3 1′37.
277 3.
365 / 0.
059 22 70 Michael LAVERTY GBR Paul Bird Motorsport PBM 267.
9 1′37.
553 3.
641 / 0.
276 23 67 Bryan STARING AUS GO&FUN Honda Gresini FTR Honda 265.
6 1′37.
718 3.
806 / 0.
165 24 52 Lukas PESEK CZE Came IodaRacing Project Ioda-Suter 263.
2 1′38.
451 4.
539 / 0.
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