Takaaki Nakagami🐻 kept up his impressive MotoGP warm-up form at COTA by finishin🐟g fastest from Marc Marquez.

Two of the hot favourites♕ for today’s race, Francesco Bagnai🎃a and Marquez both started the session on a used hard front tyre and soft rear. 

Marquez, who was following the pole man early on, went fastest before Fabio Quart🎐araro bettered the Spanaird by a tenth. 

Quꦕartararo’s time at the top was only momentary though, as Marquez fired his Repsol Honda back to the top of the times, while fellow Honda rider Nakagami slotted into second. 

It was a much better start to da♍y three for Aleix Espargaro who was consistently inside the top five. The Aprilia rider has crashed four times already this weekend. 

With just under ten minutes to go, Nakagami became th🦄e fourth rider to go fastest - nearly three tenths of a second ahead of Mꦛarquez.

Alex Rins, MotoGP’ last race winner at COTA then split the two Honda’s, while Jack Miller suffered a fall a🐻t turn one. 

Not the start to race da🐈y Miller ꧑would have hoped for, especially after yesterday’s disappointing Q2 which saw him claim tenth - his worst qualifying result of the year.

While Ri♐ns retained a top three po๊sition through to the chequered flag, team-mate Joan Mir was mired down the order for much of the session. 

A late effort from Mir did manage to elevate him to sixth place, but the current world chamꦺpion was still over seven tenths away from Nakagami who went even quicker.

The Japanese rider’s advantage was then cut to just half a tenth by Marquez late on, as the two Honda men were over four te♈nths clear of Rins.