Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia led MotoGP Observe on the Crimson Bull Ring for this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, as he led an all-Ducati prime 4.
Bagnaia left it till his remaining time assault lap to set his greatest time: a 1:28.508, which gave him the all-time lap document by 0.036 seconds over Marco Bezzecchi’s 1:28.544 from 2023.
Bagnaia was quickest by 0.281 seconds in Observe, forward of Franco Morbidelli. The second of the 4 Ducatis within the 4 positions, Morbidelli was lower than 0.1 seconds sooner than Marc Marquez, the fourth of these Desmosedici riders, with Jorge Martin sandwiched within the center.
Enea Bastianini crashed on his remaining time assault run, however he was nonetheless capable of scrape by means of to Q2 in tenth place.
Whereas Ducati was trying dominant once more on Friday in Austria, the identical couldn’t be stated for KTM. Brad Binder was the one KTM rider to make it into Q2, in fifth place, as Jack Miller Pedro Acosta, Augusto Fernandez, and Pol Espargaro all missed the highest 10, the latter after his bike stopped on-track mid-session.
Alex Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi additionally made the highest 10, Bezzecchi regardless of a crash at flip three, that means seven of the eight Ducatis within the subject are robotically in Q2. Solely Fabio Di Giannantonio must go to Q1 after crashed at flip eight and completed down in twentieth.
Joan mir harboured hopes of constructing Q2 after ending FP1 in ninth, however he completed Observe down in twenty fourth, forward of solely Stefan Bradl who crashed this afternoon on the 2a-2b chicane.
Aprilia was having a depressing afternoon till the ultimate 10 minutes. It did not have a single rider inside the highest 10 till Maverick Vinales’ first time assault on the finish of Observe, however in the long run each Vinales and Espargaro made it by means of in eighth and seventh, respectively.
