The Italian Marco Bezzecchi, classified third in the MotoGP World Championship and slightly down at the last Grand Prix, warned his teammates Pecco Bagnaia and Jorge Martín who were ahead of him in the table that things would change in their favor in Assen. Classified second last year in the race in his rookie year, the Mooney VR46 team driver led P1 almost from start to finish by more than three tenths over Maverick Viñales and Alex Márquez. Jorge Martín won with the eighth fastest time and the leader Bagnaia was, at the moment, outside, twelfth.
After the first stint, Bezzecchi was fastest with 1’33″298 and almost three tenths behind Zarco with Martín and Bagnaia, seventh and eighth and Marc Márquez behind 20th at 1″493 after eight laps. The center of attention was Fabio Quartararo who, inside the box, exchanged views with the medical manager of the World Cup, Dr. Ángel Charte because of a broken big toe on his left foot that happened when he tripped on a step in the street in Amsterdam. After P1, the Frenchman had to pass a new test because only on Thursday they gave him a proper fit for this first session. After the first batch he had a top-10 position.
Bezzecchi remained in front, lowering the time to 1’32″725 and almost four tenths to Viñales, third in last year’s race, and Quartararo to six tenths. When he improved his time -2″ from the head – to Marc The box call message is sent to Márquez and returned to the box. By that time, the hard falls of Augusto Fernández, Oliveira, Bastianini and Zarco had been added, who received the help of ‘Taxi Miller’ to get back into the box.
For the third round, the soft rear has already started to appear on the track due to the small possibility of four drops in the afternoon -the forecast for the weekend is sunny, but also the classic summer storms- day at any time-, it was necessary to secure the top 10. Bezzecchi raised the bar with 1’32″506 and 1’32″246 and his pursuer Viñales was six tenths of a minute from end. Alex Márquez knows how to extract the juice from his tender, who finished second at 0″368 in his battle with Maverick Viñales who regained second place in the extremis by 54 thousandths.
The provisional places for Q2 are for Bezzecchi, Viñales, Alex Márquez, Zarco, Quartararo, Marini, Nakagami, Martin, Miller and Aleix Espargaro. Among them the only one who did not put a soft one was Espargaró. Once outside the leader Bagnaia, another one who also did not put soft, in difficulty and furious throughout the session.
Marc Márquez, as he warned on Thursday at the Media Day, dedicated himself to working for the future of Honda and finished 21st at 1″865 after being placed in the soft rear in the last stint, but without success .For the first time and without Let the penultimate Honda serve as a precedent as Nakagami was seventh and tester Bradl 19. He just passed his circumstantial teammate Iker Lecuona, 22nd. Marc is in the tester seats that this weekend they participate in Assen either with a wild card like Savadori or making substitutes like Bradl and Folger.
P1 MotoGP classification
Source: La Verdad
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