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Andrew McLarney is an accredited MotoGP reporter with four years experience as a professional writer across the sports and video game industries. His experience as a K1 Premier League competitor evolved into a fascination with all forms of combat sport and eventually motorsport — with MotoGP becoming his primary focus. On top of that he is also an avid follower of MXGP and AMA Supercross/Motocross.
It was a dramatic session in FP1 at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, as the riders got their first feel of the circuit ahead of a highly anticipated race weekend.
The first major incident of the session occured roughly 25 minutes in when Marc Marquez crashed at over 190 km/h at the high speed Turn 10.
Despite the initial shocking images in which he was embedded in the air fence with a wrecked Ducati, Marc returned to the pits and in his classic determined style, returned to the bike and finished in the top five.
Pedro Acosta finished the session on top ahead of VR46's Fabio Di Giannantonio. Jorge Martin also looked very solid in third place while Aprilia teammate Marco Bezzecchi finished in P9.
Luca Marini was impressive on the Honda, finishing ahead of Trackhouse's Ai Ogura. However it was further disappointment for the rest of the Honda team, as well as Yamaha, whose best rider was Jack Miller in P12.
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MotoGP USA Grand Prix FP1 Results
| Position | Rider (Team) | Time/Gap |
| 1. | Pedro Acosta (KTM Factory Racing) | 2:01.725 |
| 2. | Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46) | +0.103 |
| 3. | Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing) | +0.221 |
| 4. | Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo) | +0.378 |
| 5. | Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Racing) | +0.495 |
| 6. | Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing) | +0.589 |
| 7. | Luca Marini (Honda HRC) | +0.650 |
| 8. | Ai Ogura (Trackhouse Racing) | +0.673 |
| 9. | Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing) | +0.710 |
| 10. | Franco Morbidelli (VR46) | +0.755 |
| 11. | Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo) | +0.796 |
| 12. | Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha) | +0.916 |
| 13. | Maverick Vinales (KTM Tech3) | +0.917 |
| 14. | Enea Bastianini (KTM Tech3) | +1.003 |
| 15. | Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha) | +1.035 |
| 16. | Brad Binder (KTM Factory Racing) | +1.051 |
| 17. | Joan Mir (Honda HRC) | +1.162 |
| 18. | Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha) | +1.232 |
| 19. | Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pramac Yamaha) | +1.322 |
| 20. | Johann Zarco (Castrol Honda) | +1.341 |
| 21. | Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Racing) | +1.410 |
| 22. | Diogo Moreira (LCR Honda) | +1.609 |
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Marc Marquez involved in scary high speed crash in COTA FP1
The first session of the weekend at the MotoGP USA Grand Prix kicked off in the worst way possible for race favourite Marc Marquez as he crashed out at Turn 10 and went straight into the air fence.
Check out the frightening incident here.
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