Luca Marini takes first pole position in Indonesia

The first division had a special and important interest in knowing whether world leader Italian Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) could move to the second division, because otherwise the situation could become very complicated. Performance for the Indonesian race. Although the world championship leader initially had the first ‘time attack’ among the top two, when he first entered his workshop this position was taken away from him by Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati Desmosedici GP23), who took first place by 1 point. :30.713, ahead of Italian Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha YZR M 1). Bagnaia always had the Spaniard Joan Mir (Honda RC 213 V) on his bike and was therefore trying to get into the second class; From his workshop was the leader of the race, Spanish Jorge Martín, who could go to Australia. The world championship was carefully monitoring the development of its main rival to achieve this goal.

In the second round on the track, history repeated itself once again as ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia struggled to move up to the second division and his slightly more distant Joan Mir, but failed on his first attempt and crashed out. in third place. One lap later, despite failing in the second set, ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia managed to move into first place, but behind him compatriot Luca Marini (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) dislodged him by 243 thousandths of a second and there was still a new surprise. Later Bagnaia’s teammate Enea Bastianini left him out He left the race for pole position behind by 99 thousandths of a second.

Everything was in favor of Jorge Martín, because with the exit of ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia from the second classification, there was a great opportunity to mark clear distances in front of him to achieve his goal of leaving Indonesia at the top of the MotoGP world championship. Thus, interest in the second classification focused on knowing who would be the fastest, and problems soon began for some heroes when Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) crashed without setting a reference time. A chance to leave the recently operated collarbone untouched.

And soon after, and at the same sixteenth turn, he wasn’t the only one. Jorge Martín also fell to the groundPerhaps he was under nervous pressure from wanting to do good by stepping too quickly to the piano in an attempt to get back to the piece as quickly as possible. Without a good fast lap (1:31.403) Martín had to return to his workshop to continue the session with the second bike and second set of tyres, leaving two Aprilia riders, Spaniard Aleix on duty. Espargaró (1:30.501) and Maverick Viñales (1:30.598). Jorge Martín tried to improve his situation by returning to the track with all the tension of the moment and, albeit with some mistakes, he fell to 1:30.780 on his fourth lap and placed fourth.

Aleix Espargaró once again became a reference by lowering the circuit record with a time of 1:30.303 on his sixth lap, but behind him his teammate Maverick Viñales “pulverized” this record with a lap of 1:30.009 and still had to pass at the finish line. Italian Luca Marini, who completed the lap first with 1:29, stopped the clock at 1:29.978 and became the only driver to lap in that second. Along with Marini, Maverick Viñales took the first place, 31 thousandths of a second behind the Italian, while Aleix Espargaró, French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1), South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16) and Jorge Martin took part. per second.

Italian Fabio di Giannantonio (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), Marc Márquez (Honda RC 213 V) took part in the last part of the classification without any problems in terms of physical integrity, and Marco Bezzecchi will take third place with Australian Jack Miller (KTM). RC 16), Italian Enea Bastianini and Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia RS-GP) finished fourth.