2024 MotoGP Test Jerez, Spain - Results

2024 MotoGP Test Jerez, Spain - Results
VR46 rider Fabioไ di Giannantonio tops the timesheets at the end of the Moto𓃲GP Jerez test.
Full lap times will be posted here shortly...
A late 1:36.492s lap from Maverickღ Vinales puts him second-fastest at the end of the Jerez test.
Franco Morbidelli🍸 missed the entirety of pre-season tes✤ting due to injury so he's put in some crucial laps on his Pramac Ducati today.
He has tested his settings and engine braking.
Pramac rider is only 0.122s behind leader Di Giannantonio, with 🎉50 minutes leꦜft.
The order at the top of the timesheet is still:
1) Di Giannantonio
2) Morbidelli
3) Bagnaia
4) M Marquez
5) A Espargaro
6) A Marquez
Joan Mir: "We came from a test in Barcelona which was positive to understand. We♍ didn’t get any upgrades that allowed us to go faster.
𝓡"We know the direction to take. Now, just waiting on upgrades. There is a small step we can do [on Monday]. I hope the upgrades come before the summer."
Jack Miller said: "There is so💧me stuff on the cards. We’ve got a few things on the cards which will be interesting for later in the season.
"Stuff that Dani and Pol have already tr▨ied.
"Getting confirmation on whether or not we’re happy to move i💦n that direction, or whether w🀅e put it off until the Barcelona test.
"It’s a first roll-out to understand where we can improve, in terms of fairi🐈ng.&nbﷺsp;
"The rest of it? There’s not ✤much you can do mid-season. We have a fantastic package already. I’m sure the direction will be to our benefit."
Brad Binder said: "We have a couple of different set-ups to try on Monday. The test team have done… I do♛n’t know how many days here. They have found things to try on Monday."
T𝄹wo and a half ho🏅urs to go, Fabio di Giannantonio still fastest.
2) Franco Morbidelli
3) Francesco Bagnaia
4) Marc Marquez
5)Aleix Espargaro
Paolo Bonora told Sky Italia: "For us, it's an opportunity to check𝓀 🧸all the problems we had over the weekend.
"We focused on the setting and aerodynamics, with the aim of helping the ride🐽rs find the right feeling when entering corners and braking.
"Savadori continued the work started in the GP: on the chassis and also on the engine with 2025 solutions.
"In addition, we also worked on the start, which is an increasingly important aspect, star𝔍ting w🔜ith the position in the saddle."
Ducati's Davide Tardozzi told Sky Italia: "We ﷺhave seen great news from Honda and Yamaha, they are reacting and heavily.
"We'll see the results in due course, but they're doing imp💛ortant things."
But the VR46 rider 🔯is Ok aft🦂er going down at Turn 5.
Team director⛦ Massimo Meregalli said: "We have a lot of items to test. We must prioritise.
"After Le Mans, we have two more test days in Mugel♏lo where we can te▨st what we don't do here.
"The tw♚o biggest things to test and evaluated are the aero package - we want to homologate as soon as possible, depending on the riders' feelings - and the chassis.
"We are going to evaluate these items here.
"So far, from good information has come."
A 1:36.561s lap from the Pramac Ducati rider puts him behind only Fabio di Giannantonio after three hours and 10 minﷺutes of the Jerez test.
Fabio di 🎃Giannantonio posts a 1:36.405s lap to go top.
2) Francesco Bagnaia
3) Brad Binder
4) Marc Marquez
5) Maverick Vinales
"Martin's GP24 just went bang on the front straight,"🎃 MotoGP.com are reporting.
"Testing is always positive if you🧸 want to impro🙈ve," Aleix Espargaro said.
"Lorenzo Savadori was te🐼sting something interesting [a new ride height device] which isn’t ready for us to test on a race weekend, so Monday is the perfect time to test it."
Raul Fernandez said: "I have the opportunity to try a 2024 bike. It is good feedback for the future. I will receive the bike in four or 💎five races."
"For sure, it will be imp🅘ortant during the test," Jorge Martin said.
𝔍"But it’s not something we can change with set-up. It’s something inside the bike which we need to understand. The test will help ജme."
Francesco Bagnai🏅a said: "It will be very important. I hope to solve some problems during the weekend. No pressure. We will try to do the maximum😼…"
A really noticable aerodynamic p💟art is being tested by Yamaha 🐓today.
Theไy are debuting a new front wing among other things.
Luca Marini is testing a new chassis on his Honda, while tea🃏m🌠mate Joan Mir is so far using the standard bike.
LCR pair Johann Zarco and Takaaki 🐓Nakagami will tes♏t brand-new RC213Vs which test rider Stefan Bradl has already tested.
The two bikes are dif🐈ferent t🍸o each other. Zarco and Nakagami will test one each.
Francesco Bagnaia is trialling new geometry settings in the 🍃mornin🅘g hours in Jerez.
Aleix Espargaro is testing a new ride height device for Aprilia. While Trackhouse's Raul Fe🅠rnandez is riding the 2024 factory-spec bike which he will begin racing with later this year.