Morning drizzle meant a slow start to day 🌟two, while afternoon rain brought the slick-tyre action to an end at 3pm.

After a handful of laps o🧜n wets this morning, conditions soon became good enough for slicks, with da🍨y one leader Marco Bezzecchi becoming the first to break the 2min barrier today.

The pace of improvements saw Bezzecchi pushed down to tenth by 2pm, when Pramac's&nbsꦫp;Jorge Martin was fastest from RNF Aprilia's Miguel Oliveira, GASGAS Tech3's Pol Espargaro🍷, Monster Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo and Ducati's reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia.

But drizzle returned shortly after, sending all riders back to the pits. The rain drops then cleared and riders began returning to the track... only for steady rain to soak t𓆏he circuit from 3pm onwards.

Martin thus remained fastest, despite a fall that left him with deep abrasion cuts on his right hand, with the Pramac rider's 1m 58.736s a few tenths shy of Bezzecchi's Frida🌞y time.

M🐲artin, who had one of the new Ducati fairings to try ♈today, set his time on the 2023 bike and said he is ready to race.

Quartararo, who has some lower fairing vents added to his prototype Yamaha today, set another impressive top speed of 335𒈔.4km/h, slightly better than yesterday.

The only riders faster through the speed trap on Saturday were the Ducatis of Bagnaia and Martin, who matched Enea♋ Bastianinꦓi's 336.4km/h from day one.

After riding on all three days of the Shakedown, th𓆏en missing day one of the Official test, Yamaha called-up Cal Crutchlow for more development work on day two.

Many riders used&nbs♈p;the soaking late-afternoonᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ conditions to conduct some wet weather testing...

* Rookie.

Key:
^X Rider is X positions higher than previous hour.
= Rider is same position as previous hour.
˅X Rider is X positions lower than previous hour.

Fastest Day 1 Time:
Marco Bezzecchi ITA VR46 Ducati 1m 58.470s

2023 Sepang MotoGP Shakedown Test:
Michele Pirro ITA Ducati Test Rider 1m 59.803s

Official Sepang MotoGP records:
Best lap:
Jorge Martin SPA Ducati 1m 57.790s (2022)
Fastest race lap:
Jorge Martin SPA Ducati 1m 59.634s (2022)

Official Sepang MotoGP Test - Day 1:

Marco Bezzecchi, using a🥂 2022-spec Desmosedici, stole the limelight with a late lap of 1m 58.470s, with Aprilia's Maverick Vinales then moving into second place to break what had been an all-Ducati top three for much of the day.

New factory Ducati rider Enea Bastianini, team-mate and reigning champi𓂃on Francesco Bagnaia, plus Pramac's Jorge Martiཧn all took turns at the top on their way to third, fourth and fifth.

Other final-hour im🐻provements by the likes of Johann Zarco, Fabio di Giannantonio, Alex Marquez and Franco Morbidelli pushed Fabio Quartaraཧro and Marc Marquez to eleventh and twelfth.

Quartararo had three Yamahas in the Monster pi🌌ts (and set an impressive top speed) while Marquez had four RCVs in the Repsol Honda garage (one with a new 'ground🦩 effect' style fairing, which he didn't get time to try on day one).

While the other KTMs looked to start on 2022 spec, Jack Miller appeared to go straight to the new parts, including the carbon-black fairing te🧸sted by Dani Pedrosa at the Shakedown. Brad Binder switched to the new aero later in the day.

Miller was the top RC16 rider in 16th.