Bezzecchi leads and finishes on a scooter with Valentino Rossi

The third classified of the MotoGP World Championship, Marco Bezzecchibecame the benchmark on Friday of Austrian Motorcycle Grand Prix broke the record for the fastest lap given in Red Bull Ring on a motorcycle with 1’28″533 leaving for history the 1’28″772 established last year by another Ducati, Bastianini. The Mooney VR46 driver is showing his credentials for pole position this Saturday, which could be his third in a row.

The anecdote stars ‘Bez’ with his boss Valentino Rossi who visits the Red Bull Ring with his partner Francesca and in those moments thinks about everything from the road and then transfers it to his students, ends up working as a taxi driver when he stops Marco’s motorcycle, probably because of the lack of fuel. , just where ‘Il Dottore’ is.

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ducati was placed in the top-10 giving a direct place for Q2 five units of eight possible Bezzecchi, Bagnaia, Zarco, Martín and Alex Márquez in a fetish circuit for Borgo Panigale, where they won seven of the nine races that took place that they ran since they returned to the calendar in 2016. And the two that lost them were due to the opportunism of Oliveira in 2020 -taking advantage of the mistake of Ducati Miller- and of Binder in 2021 -with slicks in the rain-.

And in a new somewhat less desirable circuit Aprilia Confirming what was shown at its related Silverstone: that the updates -evolution of the fairing and new swingarm- are working. they got in Vinales -also with a time attack below the old record-, Aleix Espargaró and Oliveira. They will be joined by KTM Binder and Yamaha Quartararo.

Already on the second lap launched the pilots began to surpass the best time of the morning of John Zarco (1’29″838). The session started late due to a red flag in Moto2 due to Manu González’s hard crash where he hit the air fence at turn 4, which took half an hour to fix. There was rain in the forecast in the afternoon and the delay put them in a ‘storm’ zone.

So, in anticipation of those fast laps, Viñales, Binder and Bezzecchi started to lead the first round, leaving 1’29″075 as a warning for the Roses driver as the best time with 38 ‘ to go and there he stayed in front for a good part of the session with three long tenths on Ducatista Marco Bezzecchi.

the first drops are falling

With 24 minutes remaining, the rain flag appeared on the track due to the first drops where Viñales, Bezzecchi, Binder, Aleix Espargaró, Bagnaia, Nakagami, Miller, Martín, Alex Márquez and Quartararo were tied in the top-10 and it caught them . from the cut of 1’29″899 to riders like Zarco, the leader of the morning, as well as the Ducati Marini or the Repsol Honda Mir (18th) and Marc Márquez (20th) with a bike that swims with the hand and escape from braking more than half of the account.

Before it rained harder -in fact, Marc Márquez withdrew his intention after the eleventh downpour- Di Giannantonio placed sixth, falling from the top-10 Quartararo who, also on the track, responded by of climbing to fifth place at the expense of Alex Marquez. But with the surrounding heat, light rain is not just another enemy.

Marc bet with 11 minutes left

There are 11 minutes left Marc Márquez he improved his personal time to move up to 13th place, a tenth behind the cut also set by Honda Nakagami. And at the next turn he launched himself and without following a whirlwind wheel to take temporary second, 85 thousandths behind Viñales and at the same time as Aleix. At the end of his round, he remained fourth, half a second behind Pecco Bagnaia, who appeared when he had to send a warning in his first attack: 1’28″821, the first under 1’29” . Ducati is a lot of Ducati at the Red Bull Ring

Bezzecchi leads and Rossi acts as taxi driver

AND Marco Bezzecchi With his 1’28″553, he broke the record for the fastest lap ever given on the circuit. His motorcycle happened to stop in front of where Valentino Rossi, the team’s ‘head honcho’, was following him from the road brought .he returned to the paddock on a scooter.

In the last minute and a half, the classification kept changing until finally the direct classification for Q2 was taken by Bezzecchi, Viñales, Bagnaia, Binder, Zarco, Martín, Aleix Espargaró, Alex Márquez, Quartararo and Oliveira.

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Sanction for Pol Espargaró

Despite the green shoots and on records similar to last year, the four Hondas were left behind. The best Marc Marquez 13th, a little less than two tenths from the cut, gave it his all on the first lap and as he approached the second time attack he was upset by Pol Espargaró, an incident that was investigated by Race Direction and Polyccio was penalized for three places on the grid. 18th Nakagami, 22nd Lecuona, Rins’ replacement, and 23rd Joan Mir. Of all of them, Ducati Marini, Di Giannantonio and Bastianini or KTM Miller are in Q1, they are all favorites for one of the two places through the playoffs.

MotoGP Training Classification