Marc Ma💧rquez made a statement on his first flying as he separated himself from the chasing pack by over half a s𓆉econd.

Pedro Acosta was the rider who slotted intoဣ 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.

Marquez 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 secto🎃r three from Acosta looked good enough to secure provisional pole, however, the rookie crashed at the final corner.

Moments after Marco Bezzecchi went quickest, Marc Marquez put his Gresini Ducati back onto pr♕ovisional pole before nearly crashing at turn oꦍne on his next lap.

Shocks in Q1 as Miller fails to advance in damp conditions

Following heavy overn🅺ight rain, qualifying for the Spanish MotoGP took place in damp conditions.

Despite losing the rear and slidꦏing his way into the final corner, Brad Binder went quickest with his first flyin🐲g lap, ahead of Franco Morbidelli.

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

Jack Miller, who waꦇs late𝓰 joining the action, then moved up to third just behind Raul Fernandez who positioned himself behind Binder.

After losing time in the final sector, Miller was then demoted to fourth beh𝓡ind Miguel Oliveira.

Miller was then relegated to fift🎉h position Dani Pedrosa went second aboard the third full factory KTM machine.

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

But the benchmark time was then moved forward by a considerable amount of time as Morbidelli went half a secon🃏d clear of Oliveira.

Binder, who was two tenꦛths 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 o🅠f qualifying.