Marc Marquez leads top five covered by 0.063s in Sepang warm-up

Ultra close top ✱five in Malaysian MotoGP warm-up, rain a threat for the grand prix.

Marc Marquez, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP
Marc Marquez, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez moved to the top of the timesheets for the first time this weekend during a sweltering morning warm-up for the Malaysian MotoGP.

The Gresini rider was just 0.003s quicker than Sprint winner Jorge Martin, who has his first chance to win🃏 the 2024 crown in this afternoonꦐ’s grand prix.

Martin will be the first satellite champion of the MotoGP era if he can raise his current points lead over Francesco Bag𒈔naia 🌺from 29 to 38 today.

But Bagnaia, who crashed while holding second between Martin and Marquez early in the Sprint, w⛎as also fast this morning, in thir⛄d place and a mere 0.012s from the top.

Most riders were again using the soft front/medium rear tyre combination from the Spri🤡nt, which they will need to manage much more carefull🐻y over the full 20-lap grand prix... if it's dry.

While Marquez and Bagnaia started warm♚-up with tyres that had already done 7 (soft front) and 4 (medium rear) laps, Martin bucked the trend by fitting a new medium tyre combined with a 10-lap old medium rear.

Bagnaia has hinted that ✤he may ride tactically this afternoon, since wi꧑nning the three remaining races is no longer enough to defend his crown. But the weather could also upset the order, with rain a major threat from midway onwards.

Behind𒁏 the top three, Alex Marquez (Gresini) and Ped♑ro Acosta (GASGAS), both set the same lap time to finish 0.063s from Marc Marquez.

Franco M𓆏orbidelli (Pramac), 💯Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia), Enea Bastianini (Ducati) and Jack Miller (KTM) completed the top ten during the ten-minute session.

Marqueಞz had to swerve around Quartararo after they both looked across to see the results on a big screen at Turn 1 🍌after the session had ended.

Meanwhile, Bastianini was not✨ amused to find his flag-to-flag practice blocked by Martin.

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