Update midway through MotoGP Sepang Test Day One

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Update midway through MotoGP Sepang Test Day One

Test MotoGP Sepang
Day One – Mid-Time Report

Jack Miller has taken some time to get up to speed on KTM after the last few seasons with Ducati, but Repsol HRC exile Pol Espargaro seems to have liked GASGAS/KTM from the start, 31-year-old Tay The Spaniard soon put RC16 at the top of the timesheet with a time of 2m00.154 seconds on his 14th lap of the morning.

Fifteen minutes later, Jorge Martin made a shot through everyone’s bow with 1m58,737, almost 1.5 seconds faster than the rest of the field. The 25-year-old Spaniard set an all-time lap record at the Malaysia venue last year with a pole lap of 1m57,790, and went on to set a lap record at 1m59,634 on the same weekend. .

While Pol Espargaro seemed interested in RC16, KTM exile Miguel Oliveira, in turn, seemed interested in switching to Aprilia. The 28-year-old Portuguese racer was quick to get up to speed with a few laps in 2m00 from the start.

Aleix Espargaro was the second man to finish under the two-minute mark, dropping to 1m59,771 on the 18th lap in the morning before improving to 1m59,324 on the next lap.

Luca Marini then joined the 1m59 club with a record of 1m59,660 in the 20th round to go P3 and then further improved to 1m59,469.

Moto2 champion Augusto Fernandez has benefited from a few days on the track during the recent test run, something no other MotoGP rider has enjoyed. However, 2m00.59 to go P4 behind Martin just before the two o’clock mark is an encouraging signal for the rookie.

Brad Binder started getting injured as opening day approached that two o’clock mark. 2m00,085 on his 18th round pushed previous teammate Miguel Oliveira back to P7 as Marco Bezzecchi then moved to P5, pushing Binder back to P6 as they completed the opening two hours of the session.

At this two o’clock mark, Marc Marquez is the fastest Honda in P13 while his brother Alex is trying to overtake Desmosedici in P17. Jack Miller is P20.

Enea Bastianini then improved things after noon (local time) with 1m58,896 to go P2 and Maverick Vinales took the lead over his Aprilia teammate Aleix Espargaro with 1m59.305 to go P3. At this time, there are two riders at the age of 1m58, Martin and Bastianini, and three drivers at the age of 1m59, Vinales, Espargaro and Marini.

Pecco Bagnaia then overcame Ducati with a score of 1-2-3 after finishing P2 on the 23rd lap with a height of 1m58,857. Aprilia is the P4-5 at this point, then the Ducati P6-7 with Luca Marini and Alex Marquez also in the middle of 1m59. The second of that pair then had a technical problem that caused him to lose his way and slow his progress a bit.

Marc Marquez was one of the relatively fast riders from the opening lap of the morning, hitting 2m00,467 in the third lap of the day but didn’t improve again until the 22nd lap, 1m59,948 which helped him advance to P8, according to the report. behind by 1.59,424 to get into P6 before both his brother and Marini. Marquez has four RC213V machines in his bunker garage to test and evaluate the various changes on them.

At this halfway point of opening day, Joan Mir made the most laps (41), compared to Martin’s 40.

Marco Bezzecchi recorded a top speed of 335.4 km/h ahead of Bagnaia, Quartararo and Marini, who all achieved a top speed of 334.3 km/h.