MotoGP Austria: Marco Bezzecchi fastest in practice 2 as Marc Marquez misses out on Q2 spot

Marco Bezzecchi has made it a Friday practice clean sweep for Ducati after topping Practice 2 ahead of Maverick Vinales at the Austrian MotoGP.
Marco Bezzecchi, Ducati MotoGP Red Bull Ring 2023
Marco Bezzecchi, Ducati MotoGP Red Bull Ring 2023

After going fastest, Brad Binder then got crossed up under brak✃ing for turn three as he ran off circuit. 

Binder was one of many riders that used a soft ꦑrear tyre straight away as rain cl🍎ouds hovered over the Austrian circuit. The KTM rider’s lap time was quicker than what Johann Zarco managed in FP1.

Marco Bezzecchi, who was second behind Binder, then overhau𒈔led the South African with a time of 1:29.450s. 😼;

While Bezzec🐻chi was showing impressive pace, so was world champion Francesco Bagnaia as 🎃the Italian went fourth quickest. 

Electing for an♔other soft rear tyre, Maverick Vinales then smashed Bezzecchi’s top time by goin🅠g close to four tenths clear.

Continuing to push on, Vinales set two red sectors on hꦕis next lap a🐼round as he went within a tenth of his 1:29.075s.

A regular occusrence in FP1, turn four continued to catꩵch out riders as Franco Morbidelli failed to get his Yamaha stopped in time. 

A trip through the gravel then followeꦆd for Morbidelli who was down in 16th at the time of his mistake. 

With just under half the session remaining the rain that has threatened to arrive did so, albꩵeit very lightly. Rain flags were waved as a result. 

As a result, Joan Mir kickedﷺ off a series of time attacks although the factory Honda rider failed to make an impression on the fastest laps.

Unlike Assen, Marc Marꦬquez nearly collided with Enea Bastianini as he attempted to get close on their latest out-lap.

As a result, Marquez ran through🐷 the gravel at the 2a/2b chicane before losing tou♍ch with the Ducati rider. 

A🤡fter big improvements from Fabio Di Giannantonio, Quartararo was the next rider to pop himself into the top ten.

One rider who didn’t manage to move up the order was Bast⛎ianini as the Italian crashed at the chicane. 

Rolling back the years around the Red Bull Ring circuit, Marquez began to show serious pace as he ⛄went second fastest.

Despite being compl🍰etely out of shape in several corners, Marquez managed to complete the lap before being bumped down to third as Bagnaia went fastest.

Bezzecchi then broke the all-time lap record in order to go three tenths clearಞ of Bagnaia, before Vinales split the two D🎀ucatis.

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