Yellow flags are out and that's it. Bagnaia won't be able to improve h༒is position. 

M♛artin goes second but Bagnaia is only 14th. This is a disaster for the Italian. 

Mind games 🌺are taking pla🎶ce as Martin is following Bagnaia again. 

Bagnaia is down in 13🎐th and still strugღgling to put a good lap together. 

Luca Marini has gone 𓄧down at turn one. Another comes unstuck at the left-hand corner.

We're back underway in Valencia. 

It looks like debris was on the circuit.

There's a red flag due to 'track conditions'.

Jack Miller has gone down at turn three.

Maverick Vinales sets a new all-time lap record. It's 𝔍a time of 1:29.392s.

Martin moves into second spot as threatening the all-time🐻 lap record.

The time 𝓀attacks are coming🀅 in early as Marc Marquez goes fastest.

Finally some serious pace from KTM as Brad Binder has moved into second pla🌱ce. 

Di Giannantonio finds 🍸even more time to increase his lead. The Italian has just set a time of 1;29.805s.

And he's done it. Bagnaia goes P8. 

Bagnaia has made 🍎another slow start b🐼ut he's on course to move up the order...

Di Giannantonio is into the 1m 29s barier an🍷d leads Fabio Qaurta✅raro.

It gets worse as Alex Rins is next to go down at turn one. It's been a𝓰 crashfest early on in Valencia. 

Make it three fall💫s in quick succession as Augusto Fernandez has cra𝓀shed at turn 14.

Marco Bezzecchi has💦 done the same at turn eight. Big crash for the Italian. 

Aleix Espargaro has gone down at turn one. 

We're underway with Practice 2 in Valencia. 

Joan Mir has been ruled out of Friday's sꦐecond practice, but it's not yet weekend over for the Spaniard who will undergo checks before tomorrow's FP2. 

Good afternoon and welcome ꧟back to day-one of the 2023 MotoGP season-finale. Coming up at 2pm UK time is Practice 2.