Marini leads the Cheste test.Marquez and Quartararo, Cross

Italian Luca Marina It was the fastest in the MotoGP pre-season tests held in Cheste on Tuesday, when the official MotoGP 2023 riders are already on holiday. This his VR46 driver was already leading at his Grand Prix in Valenciana on Friday, but on Tuesday Maverick put Vinales at 0.225s behind him and team-mate Marco he put Bezecchi at his 0.225s. It returned to the top with a difference of 230 seconds.

The best player to debut for another brand was Miguel Oliveira, fourth behind Marini by 0.335 and the second best Aprilia behind Vinales, who was ahead of Aleix Espargaro in second.

Aleix was the first to finish the test after 56 laps, 1/73,000th behind leader Marini in third place with 2 hours and 15 minutes remaining without the softs. After the lunch break, he focused specifically on outing testing with a new version of the clutch, one of his Noale flagships. Aprilia had a lot of grip, unlike the race, so it was a great time for both. They have tried very little new other than a new swingarm that gives more traction when lifting the bike.

Ducati won’t reveal the 2023 prototype until the final Portimao test (March 11th and 12th, 15 days before the start of the 2023 World Championship) Everyone was very pleased with the first version of the GP23 engine. This is the evolution of 21 that Bagnaia ended up imposing when he didn’t get along with 22. Engine and champion, in this test and in the 2023 campaign it will be the bikes of Bezecchi, Dizia and Alex Marquez. , Bagnaia led the test from 10th to 12th. Right behind them was rookie Alex Marquez in 14th, 0.689s behind Marini.

Marc Marquez, not satisfied with anything

He hasn’t done a time attack and continues to struggle with race pace, having completed only 50 laps. He has two steps to take,” Marc Márquez repeated incessantly, saying that there were more Japanese engineers than usual in his box at the test and they were all taking notes. .

After a morning session with the 2022 version of Honda, Joan Mir already had the option of testing the 2023 prototype for a few laps in the afternoon. He finished 0″ 882 a head and just over 0.2 seconds behind teammate Marc Márquez who was 13th with 0″ 644 a head.

Quartararo also dissatisfied

49 minutes remaining Fabio Quatararo On the black 2023 prototype, he began chaining fast laps, abandoning 17 laps to change to Marini’s Ducati’s 9 laps of 0.546 seconds. Like Marquez, Deville expected more from the new engine but believes he took a step back after the race. He will have tests in Barcelona and Misano and will have surgery in Sepang to repair a broken left middle finger.

As he arrived just over an hour away from overtaking Luca Marini’s best time in the red helmet, the only crash was at Turn 6 when the temperature dropped like the sun. Only Enea Bastianini did.

Final ranking

1. Luca Marini (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″032 (76)
2Maverick Vinales (Spa/Aprilia) 1’30″257 (89)
3Marco Bezzecchi (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″262 (78)
FourMiguel Oliveira (Pol/Aprilia) 1’30″367 (75)
5. Aleix Espargaro (Esp/Aprilia) 1’30″398 (56)
6Fabio Di Giantonio (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″483 (68)
nana7Brad Binder (RSA/KTM) 1’30″496 (62)
8. Jorge Martin (ESP/Ducati) 1’30″576 (76)
na9Fabio Quartaralou (France/Yamaha) 1’30″578 (92)
10. Enea Bastianini (Ita/Ducati) 1’30″592 (54)
11. Johann Zarco (Hula/Ducati) 1’30″626 (55)
12. Francesco Bagnaia (ESP/Ducati) 1’30” 655 (59)
13. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 1’30″676 (50)
14. Franco Morbidelli (Ida/Yamaha) 1’31″691 (88)
na15. Alex Marquez (ESP/Ducati) 1’30″712 (73)
na16. Pol Espargaro (ESP/Gas Gas) 1’30″757 (84) na
17. Jack Miller (Aus/KTM) 1’30″787 (70)
na18. Joan Mir (ESP/Honda) 1’30″914 (72)
na19. Takashi Nakagami (Japan/Honda) 1’31″081 (64)
na20. Alex Rins (ESP/Honda) 1’31″228 (88)
na21. Raul Fernandes (ESP/Aprilia) 1’31″340 (78)
22. Augusto Fernandez (ESP/GasGas) 1’31″730 (83)
23. Michele Pirro (Ita/Ducati test) 1’32″805 (16)