Morning drizzle meant a slow start to day two, while afternoon rain brought the slick-tyre action to aꦉn&n👍bsp;end at 3pm.

After a handful of laps on wets this morning, conditions soon became good enough for🍌 slicks, with day one leader Marco Bezzecchi becoming the first to break the 2min barrier today.

The pace of improvements saw Bezzecchi pushed down to tenth by 2pm, when Pramac's Jorge 🌊Martin was fastest from RNF April🐽ia's Miguel Oliveira, GASGAS Tech3's Pol Espargaro, Monster Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo and Ducati's reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia.

But drizzle returned shor✤tly after, sending all riders back to the pits. The rain drops then cleared and riders began returning to the track... ♍only for steady rain to soak the circuit from 3pm onwards.

Martin thus remained fastest, despite a fall that left him with deep abrasion cuts on his right hand, with the Pramac ﷽rider's 1m 58.736s a few tenths shy of Bezzecchi's Friday time.

Martin, who had one of th🧜e new Ducati fairings to try today, set his time on the 2023 bike and sai🦋d he is ready to race.

Quartararo, who has some lower fairing vents added to his prototype Yamඣaha today,&n🌠bsp;set another impressive top speed of 335.4km/h, slightly better than yesterday.

The only riders faster through the speed trap on Sa▨turday were the Ducatis of Bagnaia and Martin, who matched Enea Bastianini's 336.4km/h from day one.

After riding on all three day🌠s of the Shakedown, then missing day one of the Official test, Yamaha called-up Cal Crutchlow for more development work on day two.

Many riders used the꧂ soaking late-afteꦺrnoon conditions to conduct some wet weather testing...

* Rookie.

Key:
^X Rider is X positions higher than previous hour.
= Rider is same position as previous hour.
˅X Rider is X positions lower than previous hour.

Fastest Day 1 Time:
Marco Bezzecchi ITA VR46 Ducati 1m 58.470s

2023 Sepang MotoGP Shakedown Test:
Michele Pirro ITA Ducati Test Rider 1m 59.803s

Official Sepang MotoGP records:
Best lap:
Jorge Martin SPA Ducati 1m 57.790s (2022)
Fastest race lap:
Jorge Martin SPA Ducati 1m 59.634s (2022)

Official Sepang MotoGP Test - Day 1:

Marco Bezzecchi, using a 2022-spec Desmosedici, stole the limelight with a late lap of 1m 58.470s, with Aprilia's Maverick Vinales then moving into second place to brea💧k what had been an all-Ducati top three for much o♛f the day.

New factory Ducati rider Enea Bastianini, team-mate and reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia, plus Pramac's Jorge Martin all took turns at the top on their way to t🍌hird, f♏ourth and fifth.

Other final-hour improvements by the likes of Johann Zarco, Fab🅷io di Giannantonio, Alex Marquez and Franco Morbidelli pushed Fabio Quartararo and Marc Marquez to eleventh and twelfth.

Quartararo had three Yamahas in the Monster pits (and set an impressive top speed) while Marquez had four RCVs in the Repsol Honda garage (one with a new 'ground effect' style fairing, which he didn't get time to tr🔥y on day one).

While the other KTMs looked to start on 2022 spec, Jack Miller appeared to go straight toꦺ the new parts, including the carbon-black fairing tested by Dani Pedrosa at the Shakedown. Brad Binder switched to the new aer✤o later in the day.

Miller was the top RC16 rider in 16th.