Marini led the Cheste exam; Marquez and Quartararo, the cross

The Italian Luca Marina It was the fastest in the MotoGP pre-season test held this Tuesday in Cheste and where the official MotoGP 2023 riders are entering the vacation period. The VR46 driver was already leading on Friday in the Comunitat Valenciana Grand Prix and this Tuesday he was back on top by 0″225 to Maverick Viñales and 0″230 to his teammate Marco Bezzecchi.

The best of the other brand debutants was, and for now, Miguel Oliveira, fourth, 0″335 behind Marini, second best Aprilia of the day after Viñales, who was second and ahead of Aleix Espargaró.

The first to finish the test after 56 laps was Aleix when he was third, 73 thousandths behind leader Marini with 2 hours and a quarter to go and not wearing soft. After the lunch break, he focused mainly on testing shows with a new version of the clutch that has become one of the workhorses at Noale. Unlike the racing, the Aprilias had a lot of grip and hence the good times for both. They hardly tried anything new except for a new swingarm that gives them more traction when lifting the bike.

Although Ducati won’t reveal its 2023 prototype until the final test in Portimao (March 11 and 12, 15 days before the start of the 2023 World Championship) everyone was very happy with the first version of the GP23 engine, an evolution of the 21 that Bagnaia finished when they could not agree on the 22 engine and which became the champion and that in this test and in the 2023 campaign it will be the bike of Bezzecchi, Diggia and Alex Márquez. Ducati finished leading the test with Marini, Bezzecchi third, Diggia sixth, Martín eighth and Bastianini, Zarco and Bagnaia from 10th to 12th. Not far behind them is rookie Alex Márquez, 14th, 0″689 behind Marini.

Marc Márquez, no one is happy

He has never done a time attack and at the pace of the race he continues to suffer and he finished only 50 laps, one that did not work much, and most of the things he tried did not satisfy him, “you don’t” t have to take one step but two”, Marc Márquez repeated relentlessly that in his box he had more Japanese engineers than usual in a test and everyone was taking notes.

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After a morning session with the 2022 version of the Honda, Joan Mir now had the option to test the 2023 prototype for a few laps in the afternoon. He finished 0″882 from the head and just over two tenths from his teammate Marc Márquez who was 13th at 0″644 from the head.

Quartararo, also unhappy

There are 49 minutes left Fabio Quartararo With the prototype in black 2023, he began to chain fast laps, leaving the 17th he occupied to replace it with ninth at 0″546 of Marini’s Ducati and without wearing the soft rubber. He has been the hardest worker for a long time and due to the need to have 86 laps to pass the baton now to the Japanese engineers so they can work in the winter. Like Márquez, the Devil also expects more from the new machine which he believed to have withdrawn from post-race tests in Barcelona and Misano.Now he will have to undergo surgery to repair a fractured left middle finger in Sepang.

The only one to fall when he arrived in a red helmet to beat Luca Marini’s best time with just over an hour to go was Enea Bastianini who crashed at turn 6 with the temperature dropping as radically as daylight.

final standings

1. Luca Marini (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″032 (76)
two. Maverick Viñales (Spa/Aprilia) 1’30″257 (89)
3. Marco Bezzecchi (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″262 (78)
4. Miguel Oliveira (Por/Aprilia) 1’30″367 (75)
5. Aleix Espargaró (Esp/Aprilia) 1’30″398 (56)
6. Fabio Di Gianantonio (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″483 (68)
TheThe7. Brad Binder (RSA/KTM) 1’30″496 (62)
8. Jorge Martin (ESP/Ducati) 1’30″576 (76)
The9. Fabio Quartararo (Fra/Yamaha) 1’30″578 (92)
10. Enea Bastianini (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″592 (54)
11. Johann Zarco (Fra/Ducati) 1’30″626 (55)
12. Francesco Bagnaia (ESP/Ducati) 1’30″655 (59)
13. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 1’30″676 (50)
14. Franco Morbidelli (Ita/Yamaha) 1’31″691 (88)
The15. Alex Marquez (ESP/Ducati) 1’30″712 (73)
The16. Pol Espargaro (ESP/Gas Gas) 1’30″757 (84) The
17. Jack Miller (Aus/KTM) 1’30″787 (70)
The18. Joan Mir (ESP/Honda) 1’30″914 (72)
The19. Taka Nakagami (Jap/Honda) 1’31″081 (64)
‘The20. Alex Rins (ESP/Honda) 1’31″228 (88)
The21. Raul Fernandez (ESP/Aprilia) 1’31″340 (78)
22. Augusto Fernandez (ESP/GasGas) 1’31″730 (83)
23. Michele Pirro (Ita/Ducati test) 1’32″805 (16)