Maverick Vinales fastest in FP1 as Pedro Acosta shines again at COTA
Maverick Vinales leads the way in t🍌he opening MotoGP practice at COTA.
During the early stages of Free Practice 1 it was MotoGP rookie 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pedro Acosta who put his KTM on top.
Acosta so👍on lost top spot to Maverick Vinales w🌺ho was showing consistent speed aboard his factory Aprilia machine.
Vinales was the first rideﷺr to break under the 2m 6s barrier before 2023 COTA 🅰winner Alex Rins went quickest.
Lap times conti🦩nued to fall but it was again Vinales who led the way as he dipped underneath the 2m 5s barrier, to lead Franc൲esco Bagnaia.
Following an early mistake, Marc Marquez returned to pit lane to make ꦐchange🌟s to his GP23 bike.
Marquez re-♏joined the action in last place, 4.8 seconds down on Vinales’ top time of 2:04.575s.
Alex Marquez crashed shortly after at turn 12, becoming 🉐the first MotoGp rider to do so this weekend.
At༺ the front, KTM began s♊howing their potential as Jack Miller and Brad Binder moved up to second and third place.
The next rider who came close to a fall was champion▨ship leader Jorge Martin as the Pramac rider produced a front-end save at t✤urn 19.
Martin quickly put that moment behind him as he went quickest ahead of Marco Bezzecchi and Vinales, both of whom improvedඣ their lap times.
With a third of the session remaining there was yet more change aꦑt th🃏e top as Jack Miller went quickest thanks to a time of 2:04.210s.
Franco Morbidelli made a good start to FP1 as he briefly moved up to second, however, t🌄hat soon became fourth as Acosta broke into th🌼e 2m 3s barrier.
Marc Marquez then joined the KTM rookie🌟 in taking a big chunk of time out of his ꦯprevious best.
Not to be denied, Vinales went back to the top with a few minutes remaining, before finding even more t🅺ime on his final lap.
Martin threatened to overhaul the Aprilia rider, as did Acos🧸ta, but Vinales held strong thanks to a very good final sector.
