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MotoGP: Bagnaia dominates qualifying practice in Spain and sets track record

The Italian Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), two-time reigning MotoGP world champion, set the best time in the qualifying practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday, with the Spaniard Jorge Martin, championship leader, taking the lead.

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MotoGP: Bagnaia dominates qualifying practice in Spain and sets track record

The Italian Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), two-time reigning MotoGP world champion, set the best time in the qualifying practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday, with the Spaniard Jorge Martin, championship leader, taking the lead. fifth place on the timesheet.

In the Andalusian hills which border the Jérez de la Frontera track, scene this weekend of the fourth round of the season, Bagnaia, 5th in the championship, beat Maverick Vinales, the strong driver of the moment. Riding his Aprilia, the Spaniard remained flawless during the last round, in the United States, where he won the sprint and the GP.

Another Spaniard, the six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez (Ducati-Gresini), completes the Top 3 while his compatriot, the prodigy Pedro Acosta, took the sixth best time of the afternoon. If he won on home soil on Sunday, the 19-year-old driver from the French team GasGas-Tech3 would become the youngest to win in the premier class, erasing Marquez's record, which has never been so close. to win a GP, after turning the page on ten years of history with Honda.

Arriving this season at Ducati-Gresini, the six-time MotoGP world champion has not won since October 2021 (Emilia-Romagna GP). “The objective for the moment remains the podium” in GP, ​​he however tempered Friday. This season, the Catalan star has two podiums, only in sprint races (in Portugal and the United States).

The drivers having achieved the ten best combined times of these two practice sessions participate directly in the second qualifying session (Q2), which will determine the first twelve places on the starting grid for the sprint on Saturday (Saturday at 3:00 p.m.) and the GP on Sunday. (2 p.m.).

The others, like former world champions Joan Mir (2020) and Fabio Quartararo (2021), will participate in a preliminary qualifying session (Q1) contested on Saturday at 10:50 a.m. and of which the two fastest are drafted for Q2.

This weekend, the grid will have three drivers in addition to the usual 22 starters since the Spaniard Dani Pedrosa for KTM, the German Stefan Bradl for Honda and the Italian Lorenzo Savadori for Aprilia benefit from a wildcard - an invitation to compete the test.

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