Maverick Vinales was the only rider to get within one-second of reigning champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia in opening MotoGP practice at Sepang.

Bagna𝔉ia’s title rival Jorge Martin was sixth, with Andrea Iannone classified niꦕnth in his first MotoGP session since 2019!

But all was not as it seemed, with th꧙e timesheets muddled by a mix of tyre🥃 tactics.

While all riders began the 45-minute session with medium front/hard ꦐrear tyres, some riders - including the top three of Bagnaia, Vinales and Marco Bezzecchi - switched to the preferred soft front/medium rear combo in the closing stages.

Bag🐲naia promptly set the first sub 1m 59s lap of the weekend, then the first 1m 58 to put his Lenovo Ducati 0.743s ahead of the Aprilia of Vinales.

It was a change ꦆof strategy for Bagnaia, w🧜ho usually sticks with used tyres during FP1, but the threat of afternoon rain perhaps promoted him to try the preferred rubber.

Jack Miller used a new hard rear tyre to set the four🐓th-best time for KTM but sꦅtuck with a used medium front.

GASGAS Tech3 rookie Pedro A♐costa was fifth with new medium/hard tyres. However, he suffered a low-speed fall at the end of the session.

Pramac Ducati title lead♔er Jorge Martin, 17 points ahead of Bagnaia with two rounds to go, was sixth and the fꦇastest rider to keep the same medium/hard tyres throughout FP1.

Ba𒀰gnaia pulled aside on the back straight when informed that Martin was behind him during the middle stages.

The P🍸ramac rider pul൩led across and sat behind him but the Italian was having none of it and, after slowing to a crawl, Martin eventually accelerated past.

2023 Sprint winner Alex Marquez put new medium/hard tyres for seventh place, while Fabio Quartararo impressed by leading mu❀ch of FP1 for Yama🦋ha on his way to an eventual eighth.

Quartararo - who has a new engine speꦦc this weekend, but had to be pushed back to the pits by count🐻ryman Johann Zarco at one stage - kept the same medium front tyre but put a new hard rear at the end.

But the big surprise of the morning was ninth place (+1.856s) b𝔉y Andrea Iannone, riding his first MotoGP laps since 2019.

The Italian, riding in place of Fabio di Giaꦉnnantonio, vaulted from last place after fitting soft/medium tyres at the end of the session.

Even so, it was a head-turning performance after so long away from MotoGP, as he adjusted not only to carbon brakes, but the latest ride-height d🐭evices, aero and tyres.

Augusto🍎 Fernandez completed the top ten for Tech3, followed by the top Honda of Takaaki Nakagami, Gresini’s Marc Marquez, Pramac’s Franco Morbidelli and last year’s grand prix winner Enea Bastianini and KTM’s Brad Binder.

Of those six, Fernandez fitted new rubber, but the others all ke💛pt the same tyres throughout FP1.