2024-07-05 09:40:29
MotoGP World Championship leader Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati) set the fastest time in the first free practice session at the Sachsenring on Friday morning. Aprilia factory driver Aleix Espargaro gives up – the pain is too much.
The first MotoGP session on Friday morning is a real free practice session where the riders and teams can work on setting up the bikes for 45 minutes. The positions will only be in question on Friday from 3 pm, when qualifying will be contested for direct entry in Qualifier 2. Only the top 10 can do this, the rest of the field must make their way through Q1 on Saturday, and then the two fastest move on to Q2.
After rain and thunderstorms on Thursday, the Sachsenring looks much friendlier and warmer on Friday, and it’s supposed to be summery on the weekend. With an air temperature of 17 degrees Celsius, World Championship leader Jorge Martin (Pramac Ducati) set the first impressive best time after four laps with a time of 1:21.307 minutes.
After 15 minutes, Sachsenring giant Marc Marquez (Gresini Ducati) completed the first lap by 1:21 minutes with a time of 1:20.734 minutes; At this point the Spaniard was more than half a second faster than his team and his brother Alex in second place.
At half-time, Marc Marquez was 0.333 seconds ahead of Martin, who went through the gravel early.
With 7 minutes to go, Martin took first place with a time of 1:20.584 minutes, a little later Marc Marquez slipped into 1st place. He was able to bring his Ducati GP23 back to the pits via the service track, but the session was over for third place in the World Championship.
Martin finished training in first place, followed by the Italians Marc Marquez and Maverick Vinales (April) on the timesheet. Pedro Acosta (Red Bull GASGAS), who crashed shortly before the end of training, brought the best KTM to 5th place, Fabio Quartararo, the fastest Yamaha to an unremarkable 14th place.
Honda is competing in Germany with one other driver; The Bavarian finished 20th in the 23-strong field of drivers, leaving his brand mate Joan Mir behind.
The Aprilia factory driver, Aleix Espargaro, broke the fifth metacarpal bone on the right when he crashed in the sprint race last Saturday in Assen, but the doctors cleared him to go to the Sachsenring. The Catalans did three laps at the start of practice, but lost over 10 seconds in front and then stayed in the pits. As he was still training, he decided not to leave the rest of the weekend.
WITH THE RESULT
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