Marc Marquez reaches the halfway point of the Cheste test and takes 2nd place!Vinales leads

Marc Marquez All the anticipation in the morning was focused on the first pre-season test of 2024, when the new campaign in the premier category begins this Tuesday at the Comunitat Valenciana circuit in Ceste. Rins, Zarco, Marini and Morbidelli also changed factories, Di Giannantonio also changed teams, and Acosta reached the top of the KTM pyramid via Moto3 and Moto2, so he wasn’t the only one to debut on a new bike. Ta. But as the day rolled around to lunchtime, one constant was clearly at the front of the test. maverick vinales 1’29″924However, Marc Marquez took second place with 0″298.

Marc Marquez He divided this morning into three rounds. In his debut race on his new tires, he has already completed 8 laps, 7 of which were starts, with a best time of 1 minute 31.525 seconds, improving his previous lap by 1 second to take 3rd place. Has entered. When he gets into the box and takes off his helmet. He smiled broadly and raised an eyebrow at his new coach, Carcedi.

His form did not improve in the second session of nine laps, and at the end of the session he was on track with Bezzecchi, but Bezzecchi did not try to overtake him and stayed behind, lest Marc study him. cut him off. When he took off his helmet, he became even more serious.

Then, in the third round, after four laps on the new soft and the rubber was squeezed, he recorded the second best time of 1 minute 30.222 seconds, 0.298 seconds behind Vinales, but Bezzecchi was hanging around again. Provisional Ducati best is against Jorge Martin, who has not been on the track again since his fall at turn 10 (1 second later at turn 6). Marc completed 21 laps before lunch and on lap 20 He took provisional 2nd place in the time attack.Interestingly, the Ducati that Marc is riding in this test was owned by Johann Zarco this season.

Even the young newcomers are all smiles Pedro Acosta After completing the first run on a KTM painted in Gas Gas colors. Having reached the top of the KTM pyramid, he was able to make his debut in his official colors. At lunchtime, he was 1.429 seconds behind the leader in 17th place, closing in on Miller, and an inch behind teammate Augusto Fernandez, who was fourth overall.

First on the track at 10:21am was Repsol Honda’s new rider Luca Marini, who is already riding the 2024 aerodynamic version of the Honda, followed by Morbidelli, Mir, Zarco, Rins and others on the bikes. The majority of players who switched followed. Mir hasn’t ridden his bike in two days since his hard fall at Friday’s Cheste Grand Prix.

joan mille He has already released a new boxside and a new technical team, with the majority of the technical “dream team” left by Marc Márquez being led by Santi Hernández, with ex-Aprilia man Pepe Barbera and new mechanics. Ian Boronatto joins us. tires and gasoline.

Aleix Espargaro abandons test

Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro has a fractured fibular head in his left leg after being run over by Oliveira in the Lusail race, but in view of the pain and not much news, he completed 17 laps and he decided to speed up the test. After that, I went directly to Dexeus in Barcelona for a complete examination.

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