Bagnaia takes ‘pole’ at record speed for the top four

World leader established new class record and then beat previous top brand Marc Márquez (Honda RC 213 V) like his brother Alex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) and Australian Jack Miller (KTM RC 16).

Bagnaia sprinted 1:44,855 to set a new absolute record for the track, beating the record set by France’s Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) in 2021 with a time of 1:45.187. 1:44,933 by Marc Márquez, 1:45.007 by Alex Márquez and 1:45.186 by Jack Miller.

Previously, Spaniard Raúl Fernández’s (Aprilia RS-GP) third free session hadn’t started so well, he crashed in Turn 1 too, had a good “roll” to himself in San Donato’s session, which held him for a few seconds. Minutes later, he left the track, but remained on the ground under his own power.

although in reality this free session “only” served to prepare the bikes for Sunday’s sprint race and the long raceSpeed ​​led to some errors, as the official classifications were defined by the results of the first training day, as Spaniard Augusto Fernández (GasGas RC 16) also had to roll at Turn fourteen and show a red flag. minutes from the end of the session.

decline Augusto Fernandez left his motorcycle completely smashed in the middle of the trackalthough the rider didn’t feel any discomfort, it’s unusual on a weekend with many physically “touched” MotoGP riders: “Pecco” Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini, Aleix Espargaró, Miguel Oliveira, Raúl Fernández and Luca Marini and the Italian Grand Prix after Friday’s crash Joan Mir, who has decided to withdraw from her Prix.

For this reason, with a delay of ten minutes the first classification began andThe first major reference might have been Spaniard Maverick Viñales (APrilia RS-GP), but his rivals were not willing to give up an inch, and first Italy’s Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha YZR M 1) and Spaniard Alex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), later named him, Australian Jack They beat Miller (KTM RC 16) and France’s Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1).

Before entering his workshop to prepare his second “time attack,” Márquez set 1:45.298 as the best grade in the first classification. He had 456 thousandths of a second against his immediate follower, Morbidelli, who was surpassed by Jack Miller and Maverick Viñales.

Together with Jack Miller, who beat Maverick Viñales by 32 thousandths of a second, Alex Márquez improved his personal time by a few thousandths of a second, 1:45.231 to secure his second place.

Fabio Quartararo was out of the second division—fifteenth—and Spaniard Raúl Fernández suffered a second drop with Augusto Fernández in twenty-first to start twentieth.

In the second classification, news soon came of the fall of Italian Enea Bastianini (Ducati Desmosedici GP23), who had to rush to his workshop to continue in the classification.

But Marc Márquez’s (Honda RC 213 V) strategy of following in the footsteps of other drivers proved effective once again, and he was “tied” behind the wheel of Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) to take second place and for the first time respectively

Both were overtaken by the Spaniard in the third round Jorge Martin (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) rolled in 1:45.268 with Bezzecchi’s one-thousandth and Márquez’s one-thousandth to 138,000, while world championship leader “Pecco” Bagnaia had trouble with his first tire and finished twelfth on the first lap to find clues. .

In the second start, Marc Márquez once again tried to get behind Marco Bezzecchi, but as he went South in the third sector, “Pecco” Bagnaia, angrily denouncing the Spaniard’s stance, came out while braking at the end of the straight. African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16) crashed.

Marquez achieved his goal. “tied” Bagnaia and moved up to second placeJust behind the world leader, they both landed Jorge Martín in third place, which was fifth when both Alex Márquez and Jack Miller beat him.

Alex Espargaro managed to finish in seventh place. Behind Marco Bezzecchi and in front of Johann Zarco, Alex Rins, Brad Binder, Luca Marini and Enea Bastinini.