Miller dominates, ahead of only ninth Bagnaia-Corriere.it

The only happy Frenchman today was Johann Zarco, fifth in free practice on the home circuit. Fabio Quartararo he tried his best, but still finished outside the top ten col twelfth time. Yamaha’s difficulties are still to be resolved (the feeling is lacking, we change the bike constantly, but after 5 races we still don’t have a base), while Ktm is growing visibly, with Jack Miller signing the best performance at the end of the first day of practice.

If confirmation was needed after the double podium in Jerez, the Bugatti circuit has already given an initial answer. This circuit is one of my favorites – said the Australian -, this afternoon there was a lot of wind, it was all a little more difficult, but the bike is going great, every weekend it gets better and better and I really enjoy riding it.

His teammate Binder finished seventh, further confirmation of the growth of the Austrian bike. There before the Ducatissurprisingly, was that of Marco Bezzecchi, already in evidence in the morning and then third in FP2. In the afternoon I improved two or three points and maybe I could have done even better, explained the Mooney VR46 rider. Thinking about Saturday’s sprint race, he added. important to start in the first two rows, otherwise the race will be uphill.

For qualifying (Saturday morning at 10.50) in addition to the Romagna seems to be in good shape too Aleix Espargar who brought her Aprilia in second placeremoving the doubts that emerged in the morning in the Noale garage after a not so exciting start. Confirmations also from Vinaleswith the sixth time.

However, some doubts remain in Pecco Bagnaia’s garage who risked remaining out of the top ten places: tenth in the morning the Piedmontese of Ducati’s official saved with the ninth place in the afternoon, despite the difficulties encountered with the soft tyres, some set-up problems (highlighted by a long accompanied by evident shaking of the head) and the usual Marquez who, a few minutes before the end of the session, stuck to the tail of his Desmosedici, forcing Pecco to return to the garage, to shake off the Spanish. Marquez then found Martin’s slipstream (fourth time for the Pramac Ducati rider) to grab eighth time, before launching his bike into the Bugatti gravel (second crash of the day for him), after a spectacular crash, but without physical consequences