KTM double, Bagnaia once again outside the top 10
07.10 – This is the list of riders already qualified directly for Q2: Brad Binder, Jack Miller, Maverick Vinales, Jorge Martin, Pol Espargarò, Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Enea Bastianini, Aleix Espargarò and Johann Zarco. Two KTMs and an Aprilia in front of everyone, Martin is the best Ducati rider. Bagnaia missed the top-10 by a significant margin, 186 thousandths.
07.05 – The picture at the end of the MotoGP tests in Australia, Bagnaia will once again have to go through Q1.
Checkered flag
07.00 – Bagnaia is eleventh and no longer pushing, he is outside the 10th.
06.58 – Binder drops below 28″, 1’27″943.
06.57 – Vinales in 1’28″212 takes command.
06.56 – Di Giannantonio rises to second place, 153 thousandths behind Martin.
06.54 – “It doesn’t have traction in several corners”Bagnaia’s words to his men, who are now trying to intervene electronically before this last run.
06.52 – Bagnaia returns to the pits to change tires.
06.51 – This is the top-10 after the first run for all riders: Martin, Zarco, Binder, Vinales, Alex Marquez, Aleix Espargarò, Di Giannantonio, Marc Marquez, Raul Fernandez and Jack Miller.
06.49 – Bagnaia climbs to tenth position, nine tenths behind Martin.
06.47 – Hard on the front and soft on the rear for both Martin and Bagnaia, the Pramac rider climbs ahead of everyone in 1’28″299.
06.45 – 1’28″649 the new reference of Maverick Vinales.
06.43 – 1’28″841 Aleix Espargarò’s best time with the new medium and soft tires.
06.40 – The pilots are now preparing for the time-attack, also because there is a risk that it will start to rain.
06.39 – Zarco does better: 1’29″266.
06.38 – ‘Diggia’ takes the lead: 1’29″359.
06.37 – Fourth time for Di Giannantonio with the hard-medium combination (new).
06.35 – Quartararo takes third place with the hard one used on the front and the new soft one on the rear. This is the top 10: Binder, Vinales, Quartararo, Bezzecchi, Miller, Di Giannantonio, Pol Espargarò, Martin, Alex Marquez and Zarco. Bagnaia returns to the track with the previous pair of tyres, hard on the front and medium on the rear, both with already 11 laps.
06.30 – Impressive stint by Viinales at 29.7, seventh lap with the soft rear tire that ‘gives up’ in the fourth sector, the one with the long curve to the left before returning to the finish straight.
06.25 – Maverick Vinales moved into second position, 53 thousandths behind Binder with the hard tire configuration on the front and soft tire on the rear. Another 1’30″1 for Bagnaia with the medium tire on the rear.
06.20 – Hard-medium combination for Bagnaia who is lapping with an excellent pace, 30″3. Fall without consequences for Marc Marquez, who lost the rear at low speed at the hairpin to the right after the descent going down the hill to the left.
06.15 – Marini continues to be at the bottom of the ranking, for the VR46 driver, already last this morning, he has to deal with physical pain (remember that he has just recovered from a broken collarbone and that in Indonesia during the race he was hit and sent to land by Brad Binder).
06.10 – Binder is in the lead for now in 1’29″365.
06.05 – Drivers currently engaged in the Sprint simulation, the objective is to understand which tire works best between hard, medium and soft.
06.00 – Green light at the end of the pit lane.
05.45 – The sun is shining on Phillip Island.
Bath at +18 on Martin
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In FP1 he was the fastest Jorge Martin using a soft rubber in the finish.
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2023-10-20 05:00:16
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