In Practice Pecco is the fastest ahead of the Spaniard’s Aprilia and Marc’s GP23 Gresini. In the top 10 there are seven Desmosedicis and the Italians Bezzecchi, Bastianini and Di Giannantonio. 5th Martin, 6th Acosta
Pecco Bagnaia has not lost his way and Maverick Vinales is not a meteor at all: this is what emerges from the outcome of the pre-qualifying (Practice) of the Spanish GP. On the Jerez track in the second session on Friday, the one which directly qualifies the top ten for Q2 on Saturday, the best time goes to the world champion Ducati, who in 1:36.025 also sets the new record of the Andalusian track, erasing some doubts emerged in the last two weekends on its competitiveness. Behind him, exactly 1 tenth of a second behind, comes Viñales: the winner of Austin slips at the start of the session, but recovers and remains in great shape with an Aprilia that is definitely on the ball even on a track very different from the Texan circuit. Marc Marquez was excellent in third, 0.143s behind on the Ducati Gresini after a lap in which he lost a lot of his advantage in the final sector of the track. These three promise sparks.
the ten
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Among the ten who enter Q2 there are also: 4. Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati VR46, +0.339); 5. World Championship leader Jorge Martin (Ducati Pramac, +0.410); 6. the terrible rookie Pedro Acosta (GasGas, +0.414); 7. Aleix Espargaro with the second Aprilia (+0.421); 8. Enea Bastianini (Ducati, +0.455); 9. Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati VR46, +0.511) and 10. Alex Marquez (Ducati Gresini, +0.514). It is a top-10 that speaks Italian, given that it includes seven of the eight Ducatis, only Franco Morbidelli’s Pramac (12th) and the two Aprilias are missing.
many falls
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There were many falls in a complicated session, in which, in addition to Vinales, Bezzecchi, Raul Fernandez, Fabio Quartararo, Alex and Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa, Miguel Oliveira, Jack Miller and Brad Binder also ended up on the ground. With the exception of Acosta, the KTMs of Binder, Miller and the wild card Pedrosa and the Yamahas of Quartararo and Rins must now pass through Q1.
the statements
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“The Ducati did a great job, we managed to resolve many things in the last few runs and I needed it, I was missing this feeling: it won’t be easy but we have the potential to fight with confidence – said Bagnaia at the end of the session -. The GP23 It had great grip on the edge, while this GP24 is more stable under braking but we still have to understand something about working on the edge.” Felice Vinales: “We are doing very well, it is a very difficult track on which many test and for this reason it is a good test for us: we have improved a lot since last year, I am not yet efficient in braking so there is still room for improve, but I’m happy, both with the pace and with the flying lap and now I ride this bike as I like.” Marc Marquez’s comment was also positive. “I have to improve in T4, but I’m not consistent yet. We immediately found the limit, but the others improved. In these conditions qualifying will be very difficult, but in each circuit I feel more comfortable, little by little we try to find consistency and here we changed the brake that helps me have a good pace.”
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