MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix: Raul Fernandez on prime as Aprilia dominates

Aprilia lived as much as expectations at Mandalika on Friday, with Raul Fernandez breaking the lap report to guide a 1-2-3 for the Italian marque in Practice.

Only the manufacturing unit riders, Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin, had been capable of get inside half a second of the Trackhouse rider, who was constantly quick all through the day on the island of Lombok.

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Pedro Acosta (KTM) and Marc Marquez (Ducati) booked their tickets into Qualifying 2 with fourth and fifth locations respectively, making certain the highest 4 within the championship shall be within the Q2 combine. But each have a substantial lap time deficit to ponder.

Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) was sixth-fastest, with team-mate Franco Morbidelli becoming a member of him in Q2 with ninth spot.

Fabio Quartararo wowed onlookers by delivering the seventh-fastest time regardless of a violent tumble by the gravel halfway by the session. He limped away from the autumn and spent a couple of minutes nursing his left wrist within the manufacturing unit Yamaha storage earlier than rising to enhance his time and e-book his passage to Q2.

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Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) was fortunate to stay within the prime 10 regardless of crashing with a few minutes remaining. The ensuing yellow flags might have helped his trigger, as did these produced by late falls for Alex Rins (Yamaha) and Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM).

Francesco Bagnaia dodged the yellows on the second manufacturing unit Ducati to sneak into tenth spot on the very finish of the session.

2025 Indonesian Grand Prix winner Fermin Aldeguer endured a nightmare day that included a crash within the morning, one other crash early within the Practice session after which an obvious technical subject simply when it was time to push for laps. Unsurprisingly, the Gresini rider was unable to hassle the highest 10 and should battle to repeat his 2025 exploits from there.

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The solely Aprilia not flying on Friday was the Trackhouse entry of Ai Ogura, who fell within the morning and was unable to seek out each pace and a transparent observe on the identical second. He’ll be joined in Q1 by Bastianini, who racked up two falls within the afternoon session and must work onerous to ship one other weekend like he did in Japan final outing.

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