Quartararo had already sent the first notices to Jerez

It stepped into the first European circuits and world champion Fabio Quartararo started to square everything. He left Portimao with the first victory of the campaign, and the first since last August, with the icing on the cake being the World Championship leader, tying in points with Alex Rins. And on the first day of free training for the Spanish GP in Jerez, the most Spanish among French riders had already announced his intention to the best time on Friday with 1’37.071 and two tenths in the mighty Ducati trio built by Bastianini, Bagnaia and Jorge Martin.

Throughout the session, the rider who premiered his pole position in MotoGP in 2019 at the age of 19 and snatched the precocity record from Marc Márquez himself sends out warnings. And the following year he inaugurated one of the victories with a double in two events in Jerez that opened the 2020 pandemic championship. Last year he was on his way to the hat trick in Jerez when pain worsened due to compartment syndrome in his right arm and as a race leader he accumulated points in his 13th finish. “I had to brake with four fingers when I usually do it with one. I can’t full throttle straight,” Quartararo said. By the end of that GP, he underwent surgery and left the problem.

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And his best time in FP2 came after the painful contraction sustained in FP1 when he fell into the fall after a quarter of an hour of session and lead and received a powerful blow to the testicles from at the front wheel of the Yamaha that left a good portion of the session blank and barely improved three-tenths that first time, still finishing in fifth. In the afternoon, he was already turning the page on the painful incident, he had already positioned himself while doing runs with hard-medium and when he wore the soft so he tried, the time came.

This is the third free practice signed up this year, and four Ducati have made it into the top-10 along with the Honda Pol Espargaró and Nakagami. Endorsed by Alex Rins, second in the morning and eighth in the afternoon, but not by Joan Mir who went from leading to twelfth when everyone wore the new soft, and the world was turned upside down in Aprilia (Viñales in and Espargaró out). For KTM involved Brad Binder, who made an exponential leap into the tender.

So the assignment to be done for FP3, that if the hours were not so hot would be better, for Zarco, poleman in Portimao, Mir, Aleix Espargaró or the Márquez brothers where the native was angry again. Granollers -to Marc this time- to find your tire. Marc also experienced two consecutive crashes on turns 6 and 9 and the anecdote is how his former teammate Dani Pedrosa, who was on the road working for KTM, carried him on a scooter back to the pit.

Marc Márquez, who is trying to find a good base to improve on the front end problem that has plagued him, has already had eight crashes this season, fortunately this Friday with no consequences after losing that front wheel, the the second is probably due to some damage to the Honda. for the fall three curves before.

Joan Mir, who led FP1, was left in the cut, twelfth. Missing the Spanish GP was Raúl Fernández who on Thursday did not get a ‘fit’ doctor and asked them for a second chance for this Friday, but he also did not pass the exam, he had bone edema in his right hand. due to Portimao’s Q1 collapse, injury slowly healed.