The Italian set the circuit record in the last pre-season tests, where the Ducatis continue to set the pace
Marc Márquez finished 14th, eight tenths behind ‘Pecco’, and confirmed that Honda has not yet prepared a motorcycle worthy of fighting for the title
The Italian Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team), like you did on saturdaymarked this Sunday the best time in the second and last day of the last pre-season training of the MotoGP teams at the Algarve International Autodrome, in Portimao (Portugal), before the start of the World Championship, in two weeks in this same setting.
The current MotoGP world champion, who presents himself as the fittest pilot, He set a time of 1:37.968 to improve on Saturday’s 1:38.771. The tests ended with seven Ducati bikes in the top eight. This time he finished ahead of two Frenchmen. He outperformed by 296 thousandths of a second Johann Zarco (Ducati/Prima Pramac Racing), second; and by 334 to Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha), third. After them finished three Italian Ducati: Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi (Money VR46 Racing Team), at 342 and 383; and enea bastianini (Ducati Lenovo Team), at 405.
The Top-10 was completed by the Spanish Alex Marquez (Ducati/Gresini Racing), at 434; Jorge Martin (Ducati/Prima Pramac Racing), at 466; the south african Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing), to 512; and Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing), at 601.
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According to the World Cup website, the Desmosedici GP 2023 of the Ducati Lenovo Team presented a new lever located inside the front fairing, just in front of the right handlebar.
‘Pecco’ Bagnaia took advantage of the last pre-season tests to do a MotoGP Sprint simulation. The current world champion completed 8 of 10 laps below the fastest race lap record and broke the fastest lap record for Portimao.
bastianini He finished the test in sixth position, while Jorge Martín, who continued his work from Saturday’s day with the side fairings with ground effect, was eighth. The other most outstanding Ducati of the day was that of the second classified, Johann Zarco.
In the Mooney VR46 Racing team, Luca Marini had a somewhat bittersweet end to the Test after his great and outstanding performances during the days in Speang and the one played on Saturday in Portugal. Two technical problems relegated him to the bottom of the timesheets until the final attack saw him climb into the ‘Top 4’, just ahead of his teammate Marco Bezzecchi.
Marquez, fourteenth
As for the Hondas, the Spanish Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda Team) continued with updated wings and air intake. The intention of the eight times world champion for the last day of testing was to simplify work to try to climb some positions in the time table, despite suffering a crash in turn 1 and a mechanical problem in his RC213V in turn 5. reports motoGP.com.
Both Marc Márquez and his teammate and compatriot, Joan Mir, they continued with the chassis already seen in Sepang on one bike and the new chassis on the other, he adds.
Márquez confirmed that his last day on the track was the best of the entire preseason. A MotoGP Sprint simulation showed that Honda is far from where it wants to be. Márquez also confirmed that both he and Mir work in the same direction.
the one of Alex Rins he finished as the fastest Honda by being thirteenth, with Márquez fourteenth and Rins closing the Top 15. All of them are less than a second off the record.