Francesco Bagnaia 0.005s ahead of Martin in Japanese MotoGP warm-up
Title rivals eve💞nly matched in Sunday war𝓡m-up at Motegi.
MotoGP title rivals 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin were separated by just 0.005s during morning warm-up for the 📖Japanese Grand ෴Prix at Motegi.
After overcast conditions and raindrops during Friday and Saturday, Sunday dawned d﷽ry and sunny.
Sprint winner Bagnaia, who has😼 cut Martin’s advantage to 15 points, exchanged the top spot with the Pramac rider four times during t💝he ten-minute session.
While Bagnaia took his fifth Sprint win of the season after Pedro Acosta fell from the lead, Martin rode to fourth after a qualifying crash left him on the fourth row of the ♒grid.
"I think✱ we a🅺re ready for a nice battle today," Martin said.
Martin (like Marc Marquez) will again need to make big progress through the order, but at least have twice the race distance to do it in - as well as,🌳 probably, a different rear tyre.
The soft rear was used by all riders in the Sprint, but the medium rear is advised for the grand prix. All riders except wild-card Remy Gardner duly ran the hard front𝔉 and medium rear tyres in warm-up.
But speaking afterwar📖ds, some riders suggested they could still gamble on the soft re๊ar...
Sprint runner-up Enea Bastianini, KTM’s pole qualifier Acosta and Saturday podium finisher Marquez comp🍨leted a warm-up top five - featuring the top five riders in the world championship - covered b🔴y just 0.258s.
Marquez must start ninth on the grid after losing p𒀰ole position ♛due to a track limits penalty.
Franco Morbidelli, Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio di Giannantonio plus LCR Hon﷽da team-m♔ates Johann Zarco and Takaaki Nakagami - who collided in the race – formed the remainder of the warm-up top ten.
Fabio Quartar꧑aro was again the leadin🔯g Yamaha rider, in eleventh, with front row qualifier Maverick Vinales in twelfth.
The Aprilia rider, who was unable to brake harꦉd enough to disengage his holeshot device at tu🃏rn one of the Sprint, make some bike changes for warm-up that didn’t appear to pay off.
Team-mate A💎leix Espargaro was only 17th in warm-up, but still within one-second of Bꦕagnaia.
This afternoon’s 24 lap race, the last of the opening flyaway triple-header, starts at 2pm local time (6am UK).
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