Nakagami showed impressive pace on mo♐re than one occasion, while also demonstrating an impressive ability to adapt to the Termas de Rio Honda Circuit aft🅺er arriving late.

With Marc Marquez ruled out of the Argentina MotoGP due to ongoing diplopia issues, Honda were able to take some comfort in the fact Nakagami was available. The LCR man was initially ruled out due to testing positive for COVID-19, however, a negative PCR test on Friday was enough for the Japanese rider to make th꧙e late trip.  

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In what was MotoGP’s first visit to Argentina since 2019, a full line-up of riders immediately took to the🐬 Termas de Rio Hondo Circuit, with track time more valuable than ♔ever. 

With only a few minutes gone Nakagami settled into his rhythm as he went quickest. However, the Japanese rider was soon relegated to second by reigning world champion Fabio Quartaraꦍro. 

Off the back of🧸 his first podium this season, Q🌼uartararo was one of those who also adapted quickest to track conditions. Likewise was Pramac rider Jorge Martin.

The Spaniard, who is yet to score points through the opening two races, went three tenths clear of Nakagami, befoꦑre Aleix Espargaro and Aprilia shot to the top of the leaderboardꦬ. 

As grip continued to improve, Brad Binder put his KTM top before getting very loose on entry ꦯ❀to turn one. 

In desperate need of a return to form, Francesco Bagnaia was once again languishing down the order to begin FP1ꦉ, not a sight Ducati would have wanted to see. 

With 15 minutes gone there 💧🐷were no Ducati riders inside the top ten, instead it was heavily dominated by Yamahas, Suzukis, KTMs and Aprilias.

There were worrജying signs for rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio, who lost part of his fairing alongside the start-finish straight. 

The broken piece was quickly retrieved by a Dorna o🐼fficial before any potential incid💮ent could take place. 

Trying everything 🙈to find more pace, Bagnaia got turn seven all wrong as he ran off-track. Luckily for the Italian it wasn’t a crash, which would hav🥂e been a nightmare due to the condensed schedule. 

Despite the difference in pace between Jack Miller (outside the topꩲ ten) and Quartararo, both riders got a considerable wobble on, as bike shaking was becoming quite the norm on corner exit. 

With that said, the pace differe♔nce was soon reduced to two tenths as Miller went secon🅷d behind the Frenchman.

Joining the bike sha🐲king club, Luca Marini suffered a slightly less aggressive case of front-end shakဣing as he exited turn 11. 

Stiಌll looking for its first MotoGP win, Aprilia added to what was⭕ an impressive start to the day by showing even more serious potential half way FP1. 

A. Espargaro began a stint that saw him set four consecutive fas💛test laps, while Maverick Vinales was running a comfortable fourth. 

After going four tenths clear of his brother Pol, it took several minutes before any other rider cღlosed in on the Spaniard. 

That rider was Quartararo as the Monster Energy Yamaha rid🌼er went P2, however, +0.390s was the margin between the pair. 

While Bagnaia clawed his way up to seventh w🔯ith just over 15 minutes to go, it seemed as though the long corners were proving troublesome for the Bologna bullets. 

Although Espargaro looked set to close out FP🧔1 fastest, a late change to a new rear tyre saw 🐈Nakagami go quickest. 

However, in what appeared to be a carbon copy of the beginning to FP1, Quartararo we🐠nt fastest from the fifth-year premier class rider.  

Ma🏅king early statements of intent were rookies Marco Bezzecchi and Remy Gardner. The latter went as high as P10, however, the real pace was com🐎ing from the Italian. 

Bezzec♎chi went top with just under a minute to go, in what looked to be his first ti🍃me-topping session. That was before late laps from both Espargaro’s Quartararo and Nakagami.