After the finish line and the best time of day, he put the bike down on the side of the track (out of petrol?). He gave him the ride back to the garage Valentino Rossi, decidedly satisfied with the performance of his protégé. Marco Bezzecchi, lined up everyone in FP2 which decides direct access to qualifying on Saturday morning. The Romagna still surprises; after the crash at Silverstone, while chasing Bagnaia towards the podium, the rider from Romagna set off again with the same conviction that now distinguishes him at every grand prix. Certain, the Austrian one is a track favorable to Ducati, but meanwhile the world champion Bagnaia is third for now behind a surprising Aprilia in the hands of a Vinales inspired (“every time I get on the bike I feel better”), he showed he can play his cards on this track which, until yesterday, was not considered one of the most congenial to the Noale bikes.
Aleix Espargarò seventh, and Oliveira tenth, they confirm. “We understood something more from our analyses, especially on the road to follow” explains Massimo Rivola, head of the Veneto racing department. But it is the Desmosedicis that occupy the largest number of places in the top ten with which they lead directly to Q2. He is alone
Friday, but find five in the first three rows, confirms the feeling of the Borgo Panigale bikes with the Red Bull Ring, KTM home track. The Austrian motorcycle shone with Binder, quarto, while Miller closed with the fourteenth time, behind Marquez who can recriminate on a promising ride, compromise unintentionally by the former teammate Pol Espargaro, slow in the middle of the curve on the Spaniard’s ideal trajectory. Yamaha surprise: Quartararo started off on the right foot he grabbed a ninth timefruit of a positive day, fin
from the morning. Fallen without consequences, Enea Bastianini he then tried to catch up but eventually stopped in sixteenth position. Disappointment also for Luca Mariniwhich remained outside the top ten by just twenty-six thousandths.
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