Aprilia MotoGP rider Marco Bezzecchi outpaced the Marquez brothers to set the Friday pace at Misano.<\/p>\n
After narrowly trailing Marc Marquez in the opening session, Bezzecchi beat the reigning champion in the time attacks at the conclusion of the hour-long second practice.<\/p>\n
He was a tenth quicker than Marquez, as the laptimes improved by over a second relative to first practice.<\/p>\n
Alex Marquez was third, ahead of VR46 duo Fabio Di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli – Morbidelli having to rely on a last-second improvement after an earlier top 10-worthy lap was struck off for track limits.<\/p>\n
Pedro Acosta placed sixth but for once will definitely not be the sole KTM representative in Q2, with injury stand-in Pol Espargaro also booking a Q2 spot in ninth – aided by using Acosta as a reference ahead of him.<\/p>\n
Two Hondas have also made the cut in Luca Marini and Johann Zarco.<\/p>\n
Finally, points leader Jorge Martin has avoided a title blow despite trailing team-mate Bezzecchi by half a second – as he snuck into a Q2-granting top-10 spot by 0.016s over Enea Bastianini.<\/p>\n
The Q1 roster on Saturday will include the likes of Bastianini, Raul Fernandez, Fermin Aldeguer and Pecco Bagnaia, the two-time champion looking particularly out of sorts again.<\/p>\n
Session results<\/p>\n
1 Marco Bezzecchi\u00a0(Aprilia) 1m30.144s
2 Marc Marquez\u00a0(Ducati) +0.103s
3 Alex Marquez\u00a0(Gresini Ducati) +0.185s
4 Fabio Di\u00a0Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) +0.241s
5 Franco Morbidelli\u00a0(VR46 Ducati) +0.271s
6 Pedro Acosta\u00a0(KTM) +0.344s
7 Luca Marini\u00a0(Honda) +0.496s
8 Johann Zarco (LCR Honda) +0.510s
9 Pol Espargaro\u00a0(Tech3 KTM) +0.530s
10 Jorge Martin\u00a0(Aprilia) +0.546s
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11 Enea Bastianini\u00a0(Tech3 KTM) +0.560s
12 Raul Fernandez\u00a0(Trackhouse Aprilia) +0.572s
13 Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini\u00a0Ducati) +0.614s
14 Joan Mir\u00a0(Honda) +0.715s
15 Brad Binder\u00a0(KTM) +0.799s
16 Fabio Quartararo\u00a0(Yamaha) +1.034s
17 Diogo Moreira\u00a0(LCR Honda) +1.119s
18 Alex Rins\u00a0(Yamaha) +1.137s
19 Pecco Bagnaia\u00a0(Ducati) +1.315s
20 Jack Miller\u00a0(Pramac Yamaha) +1.423s
21 Toprak\u00a0Razgatlioglu (Pramac Yamaha) +1.927s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aprilia MotoGP rider Marco Bezzecchi outpaced the Marquez brothers to set the Friday pace at Misano. After narrowly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-888272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888272","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=888272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}