Miguel Oliveira finished the first free practice of the Catalunya MotoGP Grand Prix in 12th place. It was a session where, as usual, the focus is on working on the bike and adaptation, rather than the stopwatch since the times don’t count for anything.
With his first flying lap in Barcelona, the rider from Almada was in 15th position, before substantially improving on his second attempt, reaching third behind the official Aprilias of Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales.
Without improving on the next lap, he dropped to tenth and, despite improving his time to enter the 1m40s, he couldn’t progress in the classification. After four flying laps, he entered the pits and was in 12th place.
He returned to the track roughly ten minutes later, when he was 13th, with the same previous tires on his Aprilia: a soft one at the front and a medium one at the rear. Without improving, he remained in 13th, completing a sequence of laps at a steady pace in the high 1m41s.
In the last five minutes, Oliveira started the final sequence of laps with a new soft tire at the front and a new medium tire at the rear. When he improved his time, he had already dropped to 16th, only managing to advance to 15th.
On his last lap, #88 set his personal best time of the session (1m40.397s) to finish in 12th place. Nevertheless, he couldn’t avoid being the worst of the Aprilias: Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia) was fifth, Oliveira’s teammate Raúl Fernández finished tenth, and Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) was 11th.
- Salida 1: Neumático blando nuevo delante y neumático medio nuevo atrás
- Vuelta 1: Salida de boxes
- Vuelta 2: 1m44,408s
- Vuelta 3: 1m41,120s
- Vuelta 4: 1m44,212s
- Vuelta 5: 1m40,662s
- Vuelta 6: Entrada en boxes
- Salida 2: Neumático blando usado delante y neumático medio usado delante
- Vuelta 7: Salida de boxes
- Vuelta 8: 1m41,797s
- Vuelta 9: 1m41,430s
- Vuelta 10: 1m44,602s
- Vuelta 11: 1m41,454s
- Vuelta 12: Entrada en boxes
- Salida 3: Neumático blando nuevo delante y neumático medio nuevo atrás
- Vuelta 13: Salida de boxes
- Vuelta 14: 1m43,183s
- Vuelta 15: 1m40,500s
- Vuelta 16: 1m42,504s
- Vuelta 17: 1m40,397s (fin de entrenamiento)
