Enea Bastianini heads into the Qatar MotoGP fastest after to𝔍pping the first warm-up session of 2022. 

Warm-up began with Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia on-track together, but un🍸like Q2, it was the eight-time world champion leading the Ducati rider around the Lusail International Circuit. 

Bagnaia was not behind Marquez for long though as the Ducati rider made a late-braking move at turn one to get pas𝓡sed. 

On the following lap Marquezไ crashed at turn 10 - his firs🐓t of the weekend. 

While Marquez was busy picking up his RC213V from the gravel, second on the grid for today’s raꩲce Enea Bastianini went to the top of the leaderboard, while KTM’s Miguel Oliveira went P2.&꧅nbsp;

Despite his fall, Marquez chose to stay out as his 🐈Repsol Honda suffered no damage from the crash. 

Fastest to♈ start the session, current world champion 🍸Fabio Quartararo was then relegated to third before Aleix Espargaro went second - making that fourth for the Yamaha rider with just under five minutes to go. 

Back-to-bac💝k cras🔴hes then took place for rookies Raul Fernandez and Fabio Di Giannantonio. 

Fernandez went down at turn four after losing the f🐻ront end of his🍃 Tech 3 KTM, while the Gresini Ducati rider went down at turn one. 

At the front, Zarco made it a Ducati 1-2 after becoming the only r💖ider to get within two tenths o🅘f Bastianini’s top time. 

Bastianini remained unmoved during the closing stages as was the case for Zarco. Third was Aprilia’s Espargaro, while Oli🥂veira and Quartararo rounded out the top five. 

More Ducati’s managed to secure top ten results as Baཧgnaia pipped pole sit༒ter Martin to sixth.

Eighth was Franco Morbidelli who will start today’s race from 12th, while pre-race favourites Alex Rins and Joan Mir were ninth and tenth - just ahead ꦬof Marquez. 

Struggles for the likes of Andrea Dovizioso continued as the three-time MotoGP run🐷ner-up could only claim 22nd.