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The MotoGP 2023 pre-season test series at the Sepang Circuit, Malaysia, starts today, Friday (10/2/2023). On the first day of this test, the Ducati riders succeeded in dominating the top flight. Meanwhile, the Monster Energi Yamaha racer, Fabio Quartararo, appeared confident with a high top speed.
Quoted from page Crash, Ducati and Aprilia dominated Friday’s test session. The new Ducati Lenovo racer, Enea Bastianini, was the fastest, with a record time of 1 minute 58.732 seconds. Followed by the Pramac Ducati racer, Jorge Martin, in second place with a time difference of 0.005 seconds.
Meanwhile, Bastianini’s paddock partner, Francesco Bagnaia, was in third place with a time difference of 0.125 seconds. Then the Aprilia Racing duo Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Yamaha’s mainstay French racer, Quartararo, became the sixth fastest with a time difference of 0.690 seconds. Quartararo prepared three new YZR-M1 motorbikes for this test session. And the results look promising, at least in terms of top speed which is showing signs of improvement.
Quartararo managed to reach a maximum speed of 334.3 km/hour. This is a good sign, because the top speed that Quartararo last obtained at Sepang was 330.2 km/h during the Malaysia MotoGP 2022 qualifying session last October.
Meanwhile, in the pre-season test session, Quartararo’s YZR-M1 ride top speed only lost to the top speed of Mooney VR46 racer Marco Bezzecchi, who recorded 335.4 km/hour. Meanwhile, Quartararo’s partner, Franco Morbidelli, only achieved a top speed of 332.3 km/hour.
Quartararo looks to have done his first run on the prototype fairing/bike. This is where he sits for top speed, similar to the figures for Crutchlow at the Shakedown. pic.twitter.com/SV0wqRPfQ1
— Peter McLaren (@McLarenMotoGP) February 10, 2023
Results of the 2023 MotoGP pre-season test at the Sepang Circuit on February 10
1. ^2 Enea Bastianini ITA Ducati Lenovo (GP23) 1m 58.732s
2. ˅1 Jorge Martin SPA Pramac Ducati (GP23) +0.005s
3. ˅1 Francesco Bagnaia ITA Ducati Lenovo (GP23) +0.125s
4. = Maverick Viñales SPA Aprilia Racing (RS-GP 23) +0.130s
5. = Aleix Espargaro SPA Aprilia Racing (RS-GP 23) +0.592s
6. ^12 Fabio Quartararo FRA Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) +0.690s
7. ˅1 Marc Marquez SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) +0.692s
8. ˅1 Luca Marini ITA Mooney VR46 Ducati (GP22) +0.737s
9. ^10 Johann Zarco FROM Pramac Ducati (GP22) +0.777s
10. ˅2 Alex Marquez SPA Gresini Ducati (GP22) +0.837s
11. = Marco Bezzecchi ITA Mooney VR46 Ducati (GP22) +0.905s
12. ^1 Miguel Oliveira BY RNF Aprilia (RS-GP 22) +0.998s
13. ^1 Joan Mir SPA Repsol Honda (RC213V) +1.100s
14. ^7 Alex Rins SPA LCR Honda (RC213V) +1.231s
15. ˅6 Fabio Di Giannantonio ITA Gresini Ducati (GP22) +1.281s
16. ˅6 Augusto Fernandez SPA Tech3 GASGAS (RC16)* +1.295s
17. ˅1 Pol Espargaro SPA Tech3 GASGAS (RC16) +1.346s
18. ˅6 Brad Binder RSA Red Bull KTM (RC16) +1.353s
19. ˅4 Franco Morbidelli ITA Monster Yamaha (YZR-M1) +1.403s
20. ˅3 Jack Miller AUS Red Bull KTM (RC16) +1.488s
21. ˅1 Raul Fernandez SPA RNF Aprilia (RS-GP 22) +1.587s
22. = Takaaki Nakagami JPN LCR Honda (RC213V) +2.472s
23. = Katsuyuki Nakasuga JPN Yamaha Test Rider (YZR-M1) +2.507s
24. = Stefan Bradl GER Honda Test Rider (RC213V) +4.769s
Watch Video “Display of Quartararo and Morbidelli’s new motorbikes in MotoGP 2023“
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