Francesco Bagnaia 0.005s ahead of Martin in Japanese MotoGP warm-up

Title rivals evenly matched in Sund🐼ay warm-up at Motegi.

Francesco Bagnaia, 2024 Japanese MotoGP
Francesco Bagnaia, 2024 Japanese MotoGP

MotoGP title rivals 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin ๊were separated by just 0.005s during morning warm-up for the Japanese Grand Prix💃 at Motegi.

After overcast conditions and raindrops during Friday and Saturday, Sunday daw𝓀ne🃏d dry and sunny.

Sprint winner Bagnaia, who has c😼ut Martin’s advantage to 15 points, e𒀰xchanged the top spot with the Pramac rider four times during the ten-minute session.

While Bagnaia took his fifth Sprint win of the season after Pe꧑dro Acosta fell from the lead, Martin rode to fourth after a qualifying crash left him on the fourth row of the grid.

"I think we are ready for a nice battle tod🌞ay," Martin said.

Martin (like Marc Marquez) will again need to make big progress through the order, b♉ut at least have twice the race distance to do it in - as well as, probably, a different rear tyre. 

The soft rear was used by all riders in the Sp📖rint, but the medium rear is advised for the grand prix. All riders except wild-card Remy Gardner duly ran the hard front and medium rear tyres in warm-up. 

But speaking afterwards, some🌃 riders suggested they could still gamble on the soft rear...

Sprint runner-up Enea Bastianini, KTM’s pole qualifier Acosta and Saturday podium finisher Marquez completed a warm-up top five - featuring the top five riders in the world championship - cꩲovered by just 0.258s.

Ma🌼rquez must start ninth🍸 on the grid after losing pole position due to a track limits penalty.

Franco Morbidelli, Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio di Giannantonio plus LCR Honda team-mate♈s Johann Zarco and Takaaki Nakagami - who collided in the race – formed the remainder of the warm-up top ten.

Fabio Quartararo was again the leading Yamaha rider, in eleventh, with front row qualifier Mavericౠk Vinales in twelfth.

The Aprilia rider, who was �🥂�unable to brake hard enough to disengage his holeshot device at turn one of the Sprint, make some bike changes for warm-up that didn’t appear to pay off.

Team-mate Aleix Es꧙pargaro was only 17th in warm-up, but still wit♏hin one-second of Bagnaia.

This afternoon’s 24 lap race, the last of the opening flyaway triple-header, starts at 2pm local time (6am UK).
 

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