Joan Mir left it to the final seconds 🦋of the warm-up session to head into the race with the best time of the weekend as the class enjoyed th🐽eir first taste of dry track time ahead of the European MotoGP at Valencia.

The championship leader looked unpressured and confident, his ambition to find out what he could do was undented by a small incident with Alex Marquez, where unhappy with his lap he sat up and left his compꦿatriot to wobble with nowhꦿere to go.

He poste💫d th💝e best lap of the weekend, a 1m 32.251s, right at the close of the session aboard the Suzuki. Mir starts the race from fifth on the grid.

The session was peppered with bike changes as the riders tr🐷ied out several tyre settings, effectively trying to fit their usual practice times worth of dry running into a twenty minute warm-up.

Aleix Espargaro got his Aprilia in good order. Leading the way in the closes stages before Mir snatched up the top slot, his lap was still good en𒉰ough for second and just 0.041s slower in a tight sessꩵion.

Jack Miller proved he as proficient i🅺n the dry as he is in the wet, climbing to t♔hird late on for Pramac Ducati.

Teruel’s polesitter Takaaki Nakagami lead the standings briefly on his way to fo🉐urth for LCR Honda j꧂ust ahead of his front row start.

This weekend’s pole man Pol Espargaro look⛄ed race ready in fifth as he worked with his brother on track to find the best set🐽tings and time possible on his Red Bull KTM.

Alex Marquez was always abl🅺e to come back and improve over the session, a string of personal best laps leaving the Repsol Honda rider sixth at the end of the run out.

Franco Morbidelli was th♕e only rider to experiment with a hard rear tyre, he was seventh for Petronas and the best of the Yamahas.

Alex Rins was eighth fastest on the second Suzuki, with the injured Cal Crutchlow battling t🐭🎐o ninth on the other LCR Honda entry.

Maverick Vinales di𝐆dn’t display the pace he’ll need to make an🐟ything of his pit lane start in tenth quickest on the factory Yamaha, as the Spaniard continues to endure a particularly tough weekend.

Mir’s closest title rival Fabio Quartararo was alsoꦿ as off the pace in the dry as he had been in the wet. The Petronas Yamaha SRT rider was thirteenth in the session aꦓnd will line up eleventh on the grid.

Valentino Rossi missed the first day of action waiting for a negative Covid-19 test and has been playi♈ng catch-up all weekend. His extensive track knowledge will help come the race but the Monster Energy Yamaha rider could only manage 🍒a best of 19th in warm-up.