Marc Marquez made a༺ statement on his first flying as he separated himself from the chasing pack by over half a second.

Pedro Acosta was theꦜ rider who slotted into second 🥃after overtaking Brad Binder in the process.

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Binder then went☂ quickest on his second flying lap before a charge was coming from Marquez.

Ma💃rquez looked set to go top🗹 after a stunning sector three, however, the eight-time world champion had a big scare on the front-end as he lost too much time.

Like Marquez, a stunning sector thre🍷e from Acosta looked good enough to secure provisional pole, however🧸, the rookie crashed at the final corner.

Moments after Marco Bezzecchi went quickest, Marc M🦩arquez put his Gresini Ducati 🍬back onto provisional pole before nearly crashing at turn one on his next lap.

Shocks in Q1 as Miller fails to advance in damp conditions

Fo👍llowing heavy overnight rain, qualifying for the Spanish MotoGP took place in damp conditions.

Despite losing the rear and sliding his way into the final co﷽rner, Brad Binder went qu꧒ickest with his first flying lap, ahead of Franco Morbidelli.

After losing top spot momentarily to Morbidelli, Binder went back to t💜he front of the field thanks to a 1:48.626s.

Jack Miller, who was late joining the action, then moved up to third just behind Raul F👍ernandez who positioned himself behind Binder.

Afteဣr losing time in the final sector, Mil𝕴ler was then demoted to fourth behind Miguel Oliveira.

Miller was then relegated to🍃 fifth position Dani Pedrosa went second ab🎶oard the third full factory KTM machine.

A big lap theꦓn came in from former KTM rider Oliveira who went two tenths clear at the head of the leaderboard.

But the benchmark time w♋as then moved forward by a considerable amount of time as Morbidelli went half a second clear of Oliveiraꦅ.

Binder, who ﷺwas two tenths down coming through sector three, then gained a lot of time back to close within +0.062s 🥂of Morbidelli’s top time.

There were further changes as Morbidelli and Binder advanced to the second phase of qualifying♔.