The MotoGP pre-season ended with the second and final day of testing in Losail. Francesco Bagnaia set the pace with a record lap (unofficial) on the track that hosts the Qatar GP, leading a Ducati one-two. Miguel Oliveira improved in the final part of the day and finished 12th. It is worth noting that all the riders set their best times today.
It was already at night and in the last two hours that many of the riders set their best laps. Bagnaia set the benchmark at 1m50.952s, becoming the first rider in history to lap below 1m50s in Losail. With that, he surpassed his teammate Enea Bastianini by 0.120s.
Aprilia also had a good performance, with three riders among the top six. The best of them was Aleix Espargaró in third, 0.308s off the top, followed by Raúl Fernández (Trackhouse Racing) in fifth. Marc Márquez (Gresini/Ducati) came in between them, with Maverick Viñales in sixth on the other official Aprilia.
The vice-world champion, Jorge Martín (Prima Pramac/Ducati), set the seventh fastest time. Two places below is Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM), who was the best KTM rider. As for Oliveira (Trackhouse Racing/Aprilia), despite considerable improvements in the last hour and a half, he only managed to finish 12th, 0.884s off the top and about half a second behind all the other Aprilia riders.
Fabio Quartararo was the best Yamaha rider in 14th, while Johann Zarco (LCR Honda) led the RC213V bikes in 17th. The Frenchman had a minor crash in the final minutes. On this last day of pre-season, the rider who accumulated the most kilometers was Augusto Fernández (Red Bull GasGas Tech3/KTM), with 83 laps.
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