Miguel Oliveira finished the first free practice of the Catalan 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 as times do not 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 could not progress in the classification. After four flying laps, he entered the pits and was in 12th place.
He returned to the track approximately ten minutes later, when he was in 13th place, with the same previous tires on his Aprilia: a soft one in front and a medium one in the rear. Without improving, he remained in 13th place, completing a sequence of laps at a constant pace in the high 1m41s.
In the last five minutes, Oliveira started the final sequence of laps with a new soft tire in front and a new medium tire in the rear. When he improved his time, he had already dropped to 16th place, 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 could not 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.
- Saída 1: Pneu macio novo à frente e pneu médio novo atrás
- Volta 1: Saída das boxes
- Volta 2: 1m44,408s
- Volta 3: 1m41,120s
- Volta 4: 1m44,212s
- Volta 5: 1m40,662s
- Volta 6: Entrada nas boxes
- Saída 2: Pneu macio usado à frente e pneu médio usado à frente
- Volta 7: Saída das boxes
- Volta 8: 1m41,797s
- Volta 9: 1m41,430s
- Volta 10: 1m44,602s
- Volta 11: 1m41,454s
- Volta 12: Entrada nas boxes
- Saída 3: Pneu macio novo à frente e pneu médio novo atrás
- Volta 13: Saída das boxes
- Volta 14: 1m43,183s
- Volta 15: 1m40,500s
- Volta 16: 1m42,504s
- Volta 17: 1m40,397s (fim de treino)
