The passage of DANA through the Valencian Community has destroyed the Cheste circuit, where the race was scheduled to come to an end in two weeks. MotoGP World Championshipfor which Jorge Martín and Pecco Bagnaia continue fighting. It was the Italian, precisely, who He has made it clear that he does not want to compete in Valencia.
“Even at the cost of losing the ultimate goal for me, which is to win the title, In Valencia I am not willing to run“, has declared the current world champion, according to Motorsportwhen asked for his opinion on the Valencian Grand Prix going ahead.
The ‘1’ of Ducati has expressed that “it depends on where it is done, because I do not think that in any case it is fair that it is held in Valencia”, and has “strongly” hoped that the fact that, On an ethical level, with what is happening, it is not the most correct“.
Bagnaia, the fastest in practice
Pecco Bagnaia surpassed Jorge Martín by just 50 thousandths of a second, with a lap of 1:57.679, in official practice for the second qualifying of the Malaysian MotoGP GP, in which the Spaniard even crashed. The same thing happened to Marc Márquez, for whom it was not an easy session.
Even before any driver set a personal fastest lap, the one from Cervera starred in the first scare of the day: In turn four, the rear wheel of his motorcycle bounced excessively, although the Gresini rider managed to control it and continue training without major consequences. At that same point, a couple of minutes later, Brad Binder took the first fall and had to return to the garage.
On the track at the first change, Jorge Martín was already approaching the best time of the morning in Bagnaia by running in 1:58.978 for the 1:58.795 that the Italian had achieved in the morning session, thanks largely to the fact that the Spaniard had dedicated himself to riding almost at all times with the same tire, seeking race pace.
The official session began somewhat unevenly, as shortly after The one who ended up on the ground was Aleix Espargaró on turn nine. The Spaniard was able to continue, but as soon as he returned to the track, he fell again at the same point on the Sepang circuit.
Martín set a new fastest lap and, although by thousandths, He reduced his previous time, with scare includedup to 1:58.939. One more lap, which he did in 1:59, and he returned to the workshops, like the rest of the MotoGP riders.
New adjustments to the bike, change of tires and return to the track for all the riders, with Jorge Martín with reference to beating to achieve the best classification, although everything indicated that until the last ‘time attack’ there were not going to be big changes.
Another ‘victim’ of the Malaysian track was the Italian Marco Bezzecchi, who crashed at turn 15, although he was also able to continue. New step through the workshops and all the pilots preparing their third and final exit to the track with new tires on both axles.
In that third attack on the times, the double MotoGP world champion once again emerged as the protagonist, lapping in 1:58.280. Then he appeared on the scene Martinatorthat He soon began to set fast lap partials well below Pecco’s records.
And, in that first lap launched Jorge Martín was the first to go under one minute and 57 seconds when he ran in 1:57.829but without giving up trying to improve his personal timer, the Spaniard continued lowering his fastest lap partials below his personal fastest lap, so the interest was going to be in how much he would be able to ‘scratch’.
Martín closed that second lap at 1:57.729 and went to the garage, where Bagnaia and Marc Márquez were already there. ‘Pecco’ was the first to return to the track and he did it alonewhile when Jorge Martín did it he found an ‘entourage’ of followers who followed in his wake to try to improve his performance on the track following the wheel of the world championship leader.
and the Italian He closed the lap 50 thousandths of a second faster than Martín when lapping in 1:57.679, while the Spaniard, when he was going to begin his attempted lap, went to the ground in turn one when he lost grip on the front wheel in a very clean fall, but that did not allow him to finish the session, although his time was the second fastest of the session.
‘Distracted’ by the fall of Martín, Pedro Acosta and Marc Márquez lost the opportunity to improve on that lapbut with time to do one more lap in which the eight-time world champion needed to improve his record, as he was out of the second direct classification.
Marc Márquez achieved his goal of entering the second classification, although he did it by the skin of his teeth, tenthbehind ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia, Jorge Martín, Enea Bastianini, Maverick Viñales, Alex Márquez, Fabio Quartararo, Franco Morbidelli, Alex Rins and Jack Miller.
Acosta narrowly missedwhom the Italian Franco Morbidelli removed from the list of the top 10 on his last lap, as did Marco Bezzecchi, Brad Binder or Aleix Espargaró with their two almost consecutive falls in turn nine.
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