The Spanish George Martin (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) which suffered a fall without consequences at the beginning of the third round of free practice for the Thai Grand Prix of MotoGP, ended up getting the best time for official qualifying at the ‘Chang International’ circuit in Buriram, in which the also Spanish Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) will have to dispute the first classification after finishing eleventh in the session.
Unlike in the rest of the categories, the MotoGP riders took it more calmly after having been able to ride during the first day at a very good pace, which did not prevent mistakes in the form of a crash, such as the one starred by the Spaniard Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), who crashed at turn 12 and had to continue with his second bike, which according to the final result was not too great an inconvenience.
The first rider to lower his records from the previous day was the world leader and current champion, Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1), already in the last quarter of the session, when he lapped in 1:30.310, which It allowed him to rise from fifth to third position, although in the final stretch of the batch and without improving that record, he fell back to fifth place, surpassed by both Martín and the Australian Jack Miller. Ducati’s attack was not long in coming and both Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini came from behind to get into the top ten on Desmosedici GP22 paths, while his compatriot Enea Bastinini (Ducati Desmosedici GP21) sought to improve those thousandths in some of the partial of the Thai track to get into the second direct classification, a goal that he fulfilled ‘in extremis’ to be eighth.
The Frenchman Johann Zarco, immovable in first place during all that time, saw how in the final minutes he was overtaken by both the Spanish Jorge Martín and the Australian Jack Miller (Ducati Desmosedici GP22), who crashed on his next lap and finished the batch before time, although he was able to leave the track on his own feet. That last attack by the Ducati riders left out of the second direct classification to Marc Márquezwho finished the session eleventh and just seven thousandths of a second separated him from tenth place, surpassed by Luca Marini and forced to go through the first classification.
Up to seven Ducati motorcycles entered the second classification, with the sole exception of Fabio Quartararo’s Yamaha, Darryn Binder’s KTM from South Africa and Alex Rins’s Suzuki from Spain. The rest of the protagonists of the second direct classification, Jorge Martín, Jack Miller, Johann Zarco, Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini, Marco Bezzecchi and Luca Marini, all of them with Ducati. In addition to Marc Márquez, riders such as Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP), who is fighting for the world title with Quartararo and Bagnaia, his teammate at the Noale factory, Maverick Viñales or Pol Espargaró (Repsol Honda RC 213 V), among others.
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