UPDATE from Petronas: News about Fabio: rider is OK. He has pain in the hip, but Xrays confirmed that nothing is broken.

Maverick Vinale♉s avoided the drama around him to retain the top spot in third and final free practice for the Aragon MotoGP, but his efforts were overshadowed by a huge accident involving his title rival Fabio Quartararo.

The Frenchman - who was still third fastest on the timesheets - suffered a high-side under braꦛking at the tricky Turn 14, scene of a crash for him yesterday too, with the Petronas SRT Yamaha beginning to fold 🔯beneath him before biting and bu🌠cking him the other direction.

Flicking him into the air - albeit not before a nasty strike from the bucking Yamaha - Quartararo  came down heavily on his left side, prompting him to grab his shoulder initially. Needing help to get up, Quartararo eventually took the available stretcher before being transferred to the medical🎃 centre.

The incident could mark a huge blow for Quartararo - who leads Joan Mir by 10 🧸points in the standings - in his title aspirations, even if he gets on track again today and finds himself compromised by his condiౠtion.

Indeed, the fall - o⭕ne of a handful to occur on the downhill run to Turn 14 under braking - will shine a light on the cool conditions, with organisers having attempted to circumnavigate this by starting the FP3 session one hour later.

The delay meant most riders were able to go q🎀uicker than FP2, though the leading riders rem💃ained relatively similar.

Though more thaඣn a second slower than his Friday best, Vinales was still quickest overall, leading a Yamaha 1-2-3 still with Franco Morbidelli ♌second and the hobbled Quartararo retaining third position.

A strong session for Honda, Cal Crutchlow - who almost fell foul at Turn 14 himself - hauled the LCR Honda up to fourth, one of three RC213Vs to make it into Q2 directl𓃲y including Takaaki Nakagami in ♐eighth and for the first time this year, Alex Marquez in seventh.

Pol Espargaro flew the flag for KTM in an encouraging fifth best, while Suzuki has both of its riders in Q2 with🤪 Mir - who will be watching out for updates on Quartararo - sixth and Alex Rins in ninth. Aleix Espargaro picked up the 10🐼th and final Q2 position for Aprilia.

One bonus for Quartararo, however, will bཧe the fact Ducati continues to struggle♐ in the conditions with not one of its six bikes making it through into Q2.

Andrea Dovizioso suffered his own fall at Turn 6, but was able to get back to the pit-lane, though even then he could do no better than 13th. In fact, Ducati filled six of the final nine spots on the timesheets, while KTM as🐭sumed the other three.