There first day of testing in Sepang made the official debut of Marco Bezzecchi riding a MotoGP, with the 23-year-old from Rimini immediately the protagonist of a good performance: the rider of the Mooney VR 46 Racing Team has in fact established the 10th time at the end of the session, thus entering the top-10 just over a second behind Aleix Espargaro, leader of the standings. With 49 laps, useful for gaining experience with the GP22, Bezzecchi stopped the clock on 1’59.468, synonymous with his best personal performance. Different speech, however, for Luca Mariniwhich failed to go beyond the 18th place. The 24-year-old, betrayed by some problems encountered during the morning, was unable to push his Ducati to the maximum, postponing all objectives to tomorrow before moving to Mandalika next weekend. In any case, the team has equally solved the imperfections discovered in the front wing, such as to allow the young talent from Urbino to be able to make 52 total laps, but with a best time that did not go beyond the1’59.966.
In this regard, Marini commented on his seasonal debut in Malaysia: “A difficult day todaya more uphill start than I could have expected – has explained – It was not easy, mentally above all, to sit in the garage for so long to understand exactly what was happening on the bikes. These are things that can happen with a new bike on the first day of testing of the season. We continue to work to be ready and make the most of tomorrow. I have only been able to lap the last two hours, I don’t know what kind of sensations I have at the wheel, it must also be considered that for me it is the first time in Sepang with the MotoGP. My 2022 will start tomorrow “. Finally, different sensations for Bezzecchi, who expressed his satisfaction as follows at the end of Day-1: “I am very happy, we have continued the work started during the shakedown and I certainly can’t complain about how it went. In the end, with the new soft tire, I also set a good time. We are doing a good job with the whole team and I feel better every day on the bike, it is more and more mine. There is a lot more power to handle, a different driving style and the tires are also completely different. However, a beautiful day: driving on the track with the riders that until now I had only seen on TV It was exciting“.
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