Pecco Bagnaia has not lost his way and Maverick Vinales is not a meteor at all: this is what emerges from the outcome of the pre-qualifying (Practice) of the Spanish GP. On the Jerez track in the second session on Friday, the one which directly qualifies the top ten for Q2 on Saturday, the best time goes to the world champion Ducati, who in 1:36.025 also sets the new record of the Andalusian track, erasing some doubts emerged in the last two weekends on its competitiveness. Behind him, exactly 1 tenth of a second behind, comes Viñales: the winner of Austin slips at the start of the session, but recovers and remains in great shape with an Aprilia that is definitely on the ball even on a track very different from the Texan circuit. Marc Marquez was excellent in third, 0.143s behind on the Ducati Gresini after a lap in which he lost a lot of his advantage in the final sector of the track. These three promise sparks.
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Among the ten who enter Q2 there are also: 4. Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati VR46, +0.339); 5. World Championship leader Jorge Martin (Ducati Pramac, +0.410); 6. the terrible rookie Pedro Acosta (GasGas, +0.414); 7. Aleix Espargaro with the second Aprilia (+0.421); 8. Enea Bastianini (Ducati, +0.455); 9. Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati VR46, +0.511) and 10. Alex Marquez (Ducati Gresini, +0.514). It is a top-10 that speaks Italian, given that it includes seven of the eight Ducatis, only Franco Morbidelli’s Pramac (12th) and the two Aprilias are missing.
