Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati MotoGP Silverstone 2023
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati MotoGP Silverstone 2023

LIVE UPDATES: Friday practice from the Austrian MotoGP at the Red Bull Ring

Francesco Bagnaia heads into the Austrian MotoGP with a 41-point lead over Jorge Martin after finishing second at Silvers♐tone.

Aleix Espargaro was the race winner la🤪st time out as he looked to keep Aprilia's impressive form going. 

Stya tuned as wuqian08🐭21.com brings you the latest news and updates throughout the Austrian MotoGP weekend. 

15:13
Friday practice comes to a close

That's it for Practice꧋ 2 as Bezzecchi tops it ahead of Vinales and Bagnaia. Binder was fourth and Zarco fifth. 

15:11

Bezzecchi is returning to pit lane on the back of a scooter that's 🍃being ridden by Valentino Rossi after running out of fuel. 

15:07
Bez sets a new lap record

Bezzecchi breaks the lap record to go faste🥀st from Bagnaia. It's a 1:28.533s from the Italia𒀰n. 

15:04

Binder into second as he 🔥cuts Bagnaia's lead down to under a tenth🌊. 

15:02

Wow! Bagnaia goes under th🦋e 1m 29s barr🤡ier by over two tenths. What a lap by the world champion. 

15:00

What aཧ lap by Marc Marquez as he goes second ൩fastest. 

14:56

Quartara💙ro goes back into the top ten as Bastianini has gone down at the chicane. 

14:54

Marc Marquez runs o🐎ff track after nearly running into the back of Enea Bastianini. 

14:53

Quartararo and Marc Marquez are oജut on soft rear tyres. 

14:47

Rain flags are being 🙈waved but itꦺ looks to be very light at the moment. 

14:46

Marc Marquez is really struggling with the ꩵHonda. It looks like a handful to 🍌ride. 

14:38

Franco Morbidelli gets it ❀🐷wrong at turn four and runs throught the gravel. 

14:35

Stunning pace from Vinales as he goes🀅 close🐠 to beating his own time again. 

14:33
Vinales goes top

As h🌊e does it. VInales goes fastest by nearly four tenths. There's still 38 minutes remaining but lap times are very fast already. 

14:32

Vinales is on a big, big lap at the moment. He is half way a🦹round and could go top...

14:29

After topping FP1, Zarco is now the fi𓃲rst rider outsidജe of the top ten as Bezzecchi continues to lead. 

14:22
Bez to the front of the leaderboard

Bez⛦zecchi goes top with a time of 1:29.450s. 

14:20

Riders are wasting no time as soft tyres have already been t൩hrown into ༺action as heavy rain could be coming soon. Binder is fastest as it stands.

14:11

And we're underway with MotoGP FP2 in Austria.

14:00

Good afternoon and welcome back to Fri♋day practice at the Red Bull Ring. There has been a slight delay to Practice 2 which should get underway within the next 15 minutes. 

10:34
Ducati claim top spot in FP1

ཧZarco finishes fastest aꦛhead of Quartararo and Vinales

10:31

Johan🌊n Zarco goes quickest by nearly four tenths ahead of Quartararo.&nbs൩p;

10:29

Bezzecchi runs through the gravel♏ for the second time in this session. This time it's turn two for the Italia𒀰n.