Showing immediate pace, Ducati test riꦦder Michele Pirro held a comfortable advantage early on ahead of the LCR Honda duo of Takaaki Nakagami and Alex Rins. 

Alex Marquez, who wil serve a three-place grid penalty during Sunday’s Grand Prix, then went quickest by just under a tenth from Pi♔rro.&nbs💜p;

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There wa🃏s a big moment for Aleix Espargaro as the Aprilia rider nearly lost the front-end of his RS-GP22 with ten minutes gone. Espargaro had to piꦺck up his machine before running into the gravel.

Still fastest, Ma👍rquez was less than happy after being blocked by a s🍒low-moving Franco Morbidelli.

The Gresini Ducati rider came across Morbidelli between turns s♛ix and seven before waving his hands in frustration.

Espargaro😼’s FP1 then got worse as he was seen hobblingღ to the back of the team’s garage before bursting into tears.

There was no crash or apparent incident for the Aprilia rider o𒁃ut on circuit, however, a pre-weekend injury seemed to be the caus๊e of his emotional breakdown.

With a doctor 🦩in the Aprilia garage in case Espargaro needed to be examined, the Spaniard then went on to crash at the final corner.

Yellow flags were deployed immediately as Espargaro was struggling 🐷to walk under his own weight.

Marquez’s time at the top finally came to an 🥃end with a third of the session to go as Pirro and Bagnaia went marginally quicker.

With his teammate ending his FP1 s𓂃ession early, Vinales was the man on the move as time track runs began.

The factory Aprilia rider was up by over three tenths with one꧟ sector to go before setting a stunning time of 1:48.404s.

Vi𒁏nales set his time on a medium fron𒆙t and rear combination before Quartararo jumped up to top spot.

Quartararo was joined at the top by fellow Frenchman Johann Zarco who went secღond, while teammate Martin went third. 

Alex Marquez responded to put Ducati back on top, while brother Marc Marquez sneaked into 🌄the top ten after using the tow of Marco Bezzecchi.