Takaaki Nakagami leads a damp morning warm-up for the Emilia Romagna MotoGP at Misano💦, ahead of title contender Francesco Bagnaia.

Nakagami, something of a warm-up specia♏list this season, was quickest for most of the session, fighting back when Bagnaia and Franco Morbidelli burst ahead before Jack Miller snatched a late third.

After rain throughout Friday and Saturday morning, there was more overnight rain before Sunday dawned with bright sunshine and a clear blue sky📖.

But due to the cool temperatures, risky damp patches remained as the MotoGP riders took to the track for warm-💝up, many riders starting on wet tyres before switching over to slicks.

Fabio Quartararo - who has his first chance to win the 2021 MotoGP title today,🦋 providing he can keep his 52-point lead over Bagnaia to at least 50-points - waited until the final ten minutes to appear, eventually finishing the session in eleventh.

Quartararo will start a career-worst 15th afte🌜r strugglng in the kind of damp qualifying conditons he (and the Yamaha) 'hates', wit❀h Bagnaia on pole position.

No further rain is forecast and this afternoon's race should be the first fu☂ll💫y dry MotoGP session of the weekend.

Bagnaia won last mont🐈h's first Misano round, ahead of Quartararo and Enea Bastianini, with Aprilia's Alei💛x Espargaro then quickest at the post-race test. 

The tyre al🌱location is the same for this weekend, meani𓆏ng teams have plenty of dry set-up data despite this weekend's rain.

Local hero Valentino Rossi will start his final Italian round befor♉e retirement from last position after struggling in the damp qualifying.

Aprilia wild-card Lorenzo Savadori has been ruled 𓆉of the remainder of this event, and a planned Portimao wild-card, after fracturing his collarbone in 🦹FP3.

* Rookie

Official Misano MotoGP records:
Best lap:
Maverick Vinales SPA Yamaha 1m 31.007s (2020)
Fastest race lap:
Enea Bastianini ITA Ducati 1m 32.242s(2021)