However, not helped by a lowly eleventh on the grid after the wet qualifying, Ogura<\/a> again lost far too much time early in the grand prix and finished 9.891s behind Gresini Ducati race winner Alex Marquez<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a further sign of his potential, Ogura took the chequered flag just 0.6s from Bezzecchi’s team-mate Jorge Martin, who had been 4.5s clear of Ogura at the midway stage of the 25 laps.<\/p>\n Ogura’s final lap alone was 0.6s faster than the next-quickest rider, Bezzecchi.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n 2026 Spanish MotoGP Race Lap Times: Top 6 riders.<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a0Peter McLaren<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to improve the first part\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOkay, we can be super, super, happy about the late race pace. But from the start until the mid-part of the race, we struggled quite a lot,\u201d Ogura said.<\/p>\n \u201cI lost so much time on Bastianini but, after the feeling was there and I started to catch the riders in front of me, but we have to improve the first part.\u201d<\/p>\n After nine laps stuck behind Tech3 KTM\u2019s Enea Bastianini, Ogura was able to unleash his used-tyre pace, overtaking Johann Zarco and, on the last lap, team-mate Raul Fernandez for fifth.<\/p>\n \u201cIt seems when everybody has good tyre performance, they can use this extra advantage, but I\u2019m struggling with that,\u201d he confirmed.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cI need to understand why but, at the same time, it\u2019s good in the second part of the race, when everybody struggles and I\u2019m not struggling so much.<\/p>\n \u201cWe keep these positive things and tomorrow we have to work on the first part of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second MotoGP event in a row, Ai Ogura was left wondering what might have been. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[34422,18009,64,63,806,805,803,804,85,113427],"class_list":{"0":"post-634238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-ai-ogura","9":"tag-aprilia","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-trackhouse-motogp-team"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2026](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jerez-top-6.png\")
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