Quartararo began to dominate Cheste; Trouble for Bagnaia

The French Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) was in charge of putting pressure on the championship leader, the Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) from the first free practice session of the Valencian Community MotoGP Grand Prix at the “Ricardo Tormo” circuit.

Quartararo, with a best time of 1:31.399, is 35 thousandths of a second ahead of Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213V), while Bagnaia finished seventeenth, a result that if carried into the race would have given the Frenchman the world title.

Not a very good start to the day for Marc Márquezwho despite leading the timesheets from lap six with a time of 1:31.434 by just over a tenth of a second over Quartararo, He crashed at turn two when the front end of his Repsol Honda RC 213 V lost grip.

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At that time, the one who was suffering serious problems was the world leader, the Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), who was in the last part of the seventeenth position and had constant access to his workshop, more than 1, 1 second of Marquez’s record.

As the minutes passed, “Pecco” Bagnaia managed to improve his performance to reduce the distance to six tenths. from second and thus rose to thirteenth place, still far from his goals and from Quartararo, who at the time was the leader with 1:31.399.

This is how the first round ended, with Quartararo leading Marc Márquez and South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16), while Bagnaia did not get past the sixteenth position.

Ahead of him and behind Binder were Australian Jack Miller (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX RR), Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (KTM RC 16) and Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS- GP) and Joan Mir (Suzuki GSX RR).