Francis Bagnaia arrived in Qatar crowned by his excellent performance given over three days in Malaysia, on the Sepang track. Announced as already the best beginner of the season which has not yet started, he has still been marking time since he turned on the Losail track. Fifteenth halfway through the last test of this MotoGP off-season, he still has an opportunity to come to his senses. fabio quartararo 19-year-old who stole the show with a third time…
That being said, its leader at Ducati warned: the Qatari times can be misleading. “Pecco”, himself, does not seem fooled since he is satisfied with his Sunday performance: “ the day was positive, we did a good job. I think we took a big step forward from Saturday. Yesterday we had much bigger problems. On Sunday we managed to find a way to pick up our pace, especially the running pace“, declared the teammate of a Jack Miller twelfth
To those who have already gone to tease the clock, he addresses: “ This may be a mistake, as many have used more tires than us. In the end, we only played one new set. Then we used a set of tires for a long run, with a full tank. It wasn't about pushing, we just wanted to understand how the bike behaved after a few laps. , said the Pramac Ducati rider. “It was ten laps and I'm happy with what we did because everything was going well until the sixth lap. Then we realized that it wasn't working well, especially with the front tire, whose efficiency drop was brutal. ».
The 2 Moto2018 World Champion had a clear idea for Monday: “ we must continue to work to better understand what we need to change. But the path is quite clear: we went in two different directions, one gave us something, with the other we lost something. We will definitely go for the time, because we saved tires today. I'm quite satisfied, our pace is better than 15th place », assures the pilot who graduated from the VR46 Academy.
MotoGP, Losail J2 Test: times
| 1 | 42 | Alex Rins | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:54.593 | ||
| 2 | 12 | Maverick Vinales | Yamaha M1 | 1:54.650 | 0.057 | 0.057 |
| 3 | 20 | fabio quartararo | Yamaha M1 | 1:54.908 | 0.315 | 0.258 |
| 4 | 9 | Danilo Petrucci | Ducati GP19 | 1:54.953 | 0.360 | 0.045 |
| 5 | 93 | Marc Márquez | Honda RC213V | 1:55.004 | 0.411 | 0.051 |
| 6 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:55.173 | 0.580 | 0.169 |
| 7 | 30 | Takaaki Nakagami | Honda RC213V | 1:55.175 | 0.582 | 0.002 |
| 8 | 4 | Andrea Dovizioso | Ducati GP19 | 1:55.205 | 0.612 | 0.030 |
| 9 | 35 | Cal Crutchlow | Honda RC213V | 1:55.247 | 0.654 | 0.042 |
| 10 | 44 | Pol Espargaro | KTM RC16 | 1:55.255 | 0.662 | 0.008 |
| 11 | 36 | Joan mir | Suzuki GSX-RR | 1:55.280 | 0.687 | 0.025 |
| 12 | 43 | Jack Miller | Ducati GP19 | 1:55.380 | 0.787 | 0.100 |
| 13 | 21 | Franco Morbidelli | Yamaha M1 | 1:55.556 | 0.963 | 0.176 |
| 14 | 53 | Tito Rabat | Ducati GP18 | 1:55.661 | 1.068 | 0.105 |
| 15 | 63 | Francis Bagnaia | Ducati GP18 | 1:55.680 | 1.087 | 0.019 |
| 16 | 29 | Andrea Iannone | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:55.698 | 1.105 | 0.018 |
| 17 | 5 | Johann zarco | KTM RC16 | 1:55.716 | 1.123 | 0.018 |
| 18 | 99 | Jorge Lorenzo | Honda RC213V | 1:55.742 | 1.149 | 0.026 |
| 19 | 46 | Valentino Rossi | Yamaha M1 | 1:55.795 | 1.202 | 0.053 |
| 20 | 17 | Karel Abraham | Ducati GP18 | 1:55.951 | 1.358 | 0.156 |
| 21 | 88 | Miguel Oliveira | KTM RC16 | 1:56.274 | 1.681 | 0.323 |
| 22 | 38 | Bradley Smith | Aprilia RS-GP | 1:56.866 | 2.273 | 0.592 |
| 23 | 55 | Hafiz Syahrin | KTM RC16 | 1:56.983 | 2.390 | 0.117 |
