MotoGP 2024. Catalan GP. FP1: Jorge Martin first but (practically) the fastest is Marc Marquez. Seventh Pecco Bagnaia [RISULTATI] – MotoGP

The Pramac rider set the time at the end of the session but using the soft tires front and rear while all the other 22 on the track used the medium on the rear. Binder did well, third and Acosta, fourth. Bezzecchi 22nd

May 24, 2024

TOAt the end of the first round, FP1, Jorge Martin he was the fastest driver. Martin lapped in 1.39.579 in the 16th of 19 laps. The Pramac rider’s time was done on soft tires front and rear, the only one to have used the soft at the rear (the others were all medium at the rear and soft at the front except for the two Frenchmen who used MM).

For this reason, in a sense, it was Marc Marquez the pilot faster on the track. Marquez did 1.39.871 in the fifth of 19 laps, that is fast practically right away. His second place counts as a first in these FP1s.

Third Brad Binder who stopped the clock on the 21st lap at 1.39.958. Fourth Pedro Acosta, the rookie set the best lap on lap 20. In fifth place Aleix Espargaro, sixth Alex Marquez.

Seventh place for Pecco Bagnaia. The world champion did his best lap on lap 7 of 18, then dedicated himself to setting up the bike.

Then they arrived A.Fernandez, Miller, Raul, Vinales And Oliveira 12th.

Annotations

– top 10 bikes: 4 Ducatis, 4 KTMs and 2 Aprilias

– Japanese: Zarco 13th, Quartararo 15th, Rins 16th, Marini 17th, Mir 18th and Nakagami 20th

– in difficulty Bastianini, Morbidelli And Bezzecchi: they are 19th, 21st and 22nd

– there are 23 riders on the track, in fact there is also the Honda test driver Stefan Bradl (it’s 23rd)

– the first 16 drivers are collected in a second