After fin🐲ishing second on his Repsol Honda debut in P1, Mir continued his good start to the weekend by going fifth after the openin🐠g flurry of laps.

However, it was a factory Aprilia 1-2 to begin P2 as Maverick Vinales led the way 𝕴from Aleix Espargaro. 

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A first-time winner in 2022 at the Argentine Grand Prix, Espargaro once again looked like a contender as he went quickest on his next lap aroun🌸d, which was also enough to put him third on combined times. 

While one Esparg𓄧aro was fastest, the other was returning to pit lane on the back of a 🌠scooter after Pol Espargaro went down at the final corner. 

Espargaro and ꩵVinales’s hot start to P2 resulted in them being the only riders under the 1m 39s barrier, with Jorge Martin sitting third. 

Still second on combined times ꦉdespite being down in 19th to start Practice 2, Mir then suffered a fast fall in the final sector. 

Fabio Quartararo then split the factory Aprilia riders by also setting a 1m 🦩38.8s lap time, before red flags were deployed due to technical issues with the timing screens.

Once the session got back underw🦩ay, Marco Bezzecchi and Augusto Fernandez suffered fast crashes. Bezzecchi went down at turn nine, while Fernandez crashed in sector two. 

At the resump🍎tion of play, Vinales was the new leader with Martin second and Espargaro third, although the Aprilia rider's time was coming under pressure from Bagnaia.

Fastes📖t overall in the first two sectors, Bagnaia then lost ground in the final part of the lap as he instead stayed♐ eighth. 

However, it wasn’t long before𒅌 Bagnaia put a full lap together as he jumped up to sixth, before turn🔥ing that in second on combined times.

At east on used tyres, Bagnaia was quickly ass✤erting himself as the early favourite for the race as♎ others struggled to show the same level of consistency. 

Vinales, who was looking like one 🌄of the few riders that could be a challenger to Bagnaia come the race, jumped ahead of the Italian which led to the top three of Marquez, himself and Bagnaia being separated by just 0.013s. 

With u𝐆nder 30 minutes remaining, the opening time attacks began to take place as Martin, Marquez and Luca Marini all went under the official lap record, set by Bagnaia last season. 

Mar🔯tin’s lap time, although 𓄧not beaten at this stage, came under severe pressure from Alex Marquez as the Gresini Ducati rider went second. Mir then split the two Ducati riders after getting within +0.024s of the Pramac rider. 

Espargaro was the first rider to overhaul Martin as he set aꦜ 1:38.253s, moments💝 before chaos took place.

Raul Fernandez was the first rider to crash before Pol Espargaro and Miguel Oliveira suffered the s♛ame fate.

While Fernandez and Oliveira quickly got to their feet, despite the latter suffering a huge highside, Espargaro was unable to do so as a red flag📖 ws brought out for the second🅷 time.

Espargaro, who was ꦉconscious, rec𝔍eived treatment at the side of the track for a lenghty period of time.

Wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhilst on a lap that was set to take him to the top of the leaderboard, Luca Marini instead crashed when following team🦩mate Bezzecchi. 

After Bagnaia set a sub 1m 38s lap during testing, Martin became the first rider to set such a t�🌟�ime in an official MotoGP session at Portimao.

Howe⛦ver, Bagnaiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚa responded to go nearly two tenths quicker and reclaim his lap record.

More lap records were set although it was the surprise name of Miller and KTM who took the spoils after the Australian’s brilliant final sector where he gained a tenth-and-a-half on Vinales, who had gone a tenth quicker than Bagn🐟aia.