The South African Brad Binder, with the chassis successfully used by Dani Pedrosa at Misano, led Access Practice in the fight for pole, breaking the record that Jorge Lorenzo still holds from the Bridgestone era (2015). The closest is the world leader Pecco Bagnaia, at 29 thousandths, and Aleix Espargaro already at 0″295.
Jorge Martin He started to push in the first round and in his fifth lap he achieved 1’44″724, which until the second round no one improved and he was one of the drivers who had problems in FP1. Miguel Oliveira the man in charge of taking it 1’44″498 shortly before the end of the half hour of work.
While most were in the pits at the end of the second round, they took advantage of the free track Marc Márquez to move up to third place, 54 thousandths behind Oliveira’s time. He relieved the Portuguese Aleix Espargaro with 1’44″387 and Brad Binder On his KTM – he has the chassis with which Pedrosa became famous in Misano – he left the Aprilia with his 1’44″255. And before finishing the penultimate round Fabio Di Giannantonio He was the first to drop 1’44” (1’43″947) and ride alone.
Interestingly, whenever the leader Bagnaia went out on the track, the tester was always behind him. Michele Pirro, and in Motegi his team-mate due to the absence of Bastianini, to track the rear bounces under braking that he suffered in several Grands Prix and they are trying to solve this Friday.
In the definite attack of time Brad Binder broke the pole record (1’43″790) of Jorge Lorenzo of the Bridgestone season (2015) with his 1’43″489 and was canceled several times after him due to Raúl Fernández’s second crash at turn 10. Bagnaia was 29 thousandths behind when Marc Márquezone of the canceled turns (a 44″0 in which he was in the top-10), crashed in turn 1 with less than half a second remaining, leaving him in the cut. That was the twentieth of the year, a drag at the time this.
Finally, Binder, Bagnaia, Aleix Espargaró – all three below Lorenzo’s old record for the best lap -, Jorge Martín, Bezzecchi, Di Giannantonio, Zarco, Viñales, Pol Espargaró – for the first time in 2023 – are direct enter Q2. and Miller. Honda and Yamaha returned to the harsh pre-India reality and everything fell apart for their two leaders, Quartararo was very difficult at turn 6 and where he came out limping.
Rins, declared ineligible after Practice
Alex Rins He took to the track on Friday to test himself – he did 16 laps in FP1 and just 6 in Practice – and had an appointment with medical director Angel Charte at the end of Japanese afternoon Practice. And because of the pain in his right leg they decided that he should withdraw from the rest of the Grand Prix. Barcelona’s brave Honda rider tried it, but that leg wasn’t ready to return to activity. The Honda tester Stefan Bradl will replace him at LCR Honda starting this Saturday.
MotoGP Practical Classification
Source: La Verdad

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