With less than ten minutes gone, Brad Binder was part of a two-rider c♑rash at turn 11.

The factory KTM rider lost the front-end of his RC16 before Augusto 🐬Fernandez fell whilst running directly beh🍨ind him. The crash for Fernandez led to his bike sliding into Binder’s machine.

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At the head of the leaderboard was Aleix Espargar🌺o, after the Aprilia rider overhauled early pacesetter Fabio Di Giannantonio. 

Jack Miller then made it three crashes for KTM riders after the Australian went down at turn 11.♛ Miller fell after avoi🌺ding a slow-moving Enea Bastianini. 

After seeing teammate Maverick Vinales go quickest, Espargaro responded in short order 🀅with a time of 1:31.347s.

After struggling for the first haꦜlf of the session, Francesco Bagnaia✅ began to find his rhythm as he went ninth quickest.

The problem for Bagnaia is thaꦦt title rival Jorge Martin was quicker and sat third ahead of Di Giannantonio and Marc Marquez.&nbs🍸p;

Still not entirely comfortable, Bagnaia was set to improve his lap time before making a mistake 🌠at the penultimate corner. 

Vinales was the next rider who came close to suffering a crash as he momentarily lost the front-end of his RS-G🍬P23 at tಞurn ten. 

With under 20 minu💮tes to go, time attack runs wereꦛ in full flow as Espargaro began lighting up the sector times.

Espargaro gained close to three te♛nths on his already-leading time before beginning his next lap with two stunning sectors. However, Espargaro’s lap went to waste ꧅as he crashed at turn ten. 

Espargaro’s teammate then became the first-ever ri꧒der to break th𝔉e 1m 31s barrier at Mandalika, before Marco Bezzecchi went another two tenths clear.

One rider ꦫwho was not in the mix for top spot was Bagnaia, with the world ch꧅ampion over eight tenths down after three sectors. 

The factory Ducati team’s day got worse as Enea Bastianini suffered a crash at the bꦆeginning of his final stint - turn 11. 

As Martin and Brad Binder found huge amounts of time to slot into the top four, Bagnaia saw his latest lap cancelled due to y𝓡ellow flags aꦇfter coming across Miller who fell for a second time - turn one. 

After crashing on his previous run, Espargaro made the most of﷽ his final time attack stint asℱ he set a new lap record. 

On course to finally🗹 make it into the top ten, Bagnaia suffered a huge wobble coming into the final few corners which resulted in him losing out. Joan Mir, who was following Bagnaia closely, t🗹hen crashed moments later.