The Spanish Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) "pulverized" the record of the "Marco Simoncelli" circuit of Misano Adriatico to get his first "pole position" of the season by being the fastest in the classification of the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix .
Martín adds his tenth pole in MotoGP and the thirty-first of his racing career with a time of 1:30.390, which was almost four tenths of a second faster than the best of his pursuers, the Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) , which on Friday had set a new record by lapping in 1:30.846.
In the second free testing session there were quite a few mishaps, with the falls of the Italian Fabio di Giannantonio (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) or the Japanese Takumi Takahashi (Honda RC 213 V), replacement for the injured Spanish driver Alex Rins, who was also there. on the Misano Adriatico circuit following the evolution of his rivals with a "scandalous" plastic splint on his injured right leg.
Takahashi was unable to compete in the official classification because he did not achieve a minimum time according to the sports regulations, established at 105 percent of the best record in the category.
The Spaniard Raúl Fernández (Aprilia RS-GP), who became the leader of that second round, rolled on the ground shortly after, as did the Italian Luca Marini (Ducati Desmosedici GP22).
The Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) was the initial leader of the first classification, which the Spanish Pol Espargaró (Gas Gas RC 16) had to pass, who had up to two falls without consequences during the session in turns 2 and 13, Joan Mir (Honda RC 213 V) or Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP), among others.
It took him a while to get the necessary pace, but in the end Aleix Espargaró, with neck discomfort after his fall on the first day, achieved his goal and became the leader of the first classification with 1:31.429, although on his last lap he was surpassed by the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia RS-GP).
Left out of the second classification, by thousandths of a second, were Fabio Quartararo, and also proper names such as Michelle Pirro, Johann Zarco, Jack Miller, Joan Mir and Pol Espargaró, who occupied the last two positions in that order.
The South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16) was the first leader of Q2, chased just 97 thousandths of a second by the Spanish Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP23), while the Italian Francesco "Pecco" Bagnaia (Ducati Desmosedici GP23) they canceled one of his first fast laps and his compatriot Marco Bezzecchi climbed to the first place.
Martín had achieved the fastest lap before Bezzecchi, but in his slipstream was the Italian, who scratched an exact tenth of a second off his personal record, while the Spanish Marc Márquez (Honda RC 213 V) was unable to string together a good fast lap and was twelfth and last with eight minutes left.
Jorge Martín broke the circuit record on his next lap, the fourth, by running in 1:30.832, the first to run in that digit of the unit of a second to beat the time achieved yesterday by Marco Bezzecchi, who had established a new best track mark with 1:30.846.
And the rise of Martín did not stop there, who on the seventh lap once again shattered the circuit record by lapping in 1:30.390, almost half a second faster than his previous record and with more than six tenths of a second over his immediate pursuer, the also Spaniard and KTM tester, Dani Pedrosa, who beat Bezzecchi by just four thousandths of a second.
But the Italian had not said his last word in also on the seventh lap he scratched a few thousandths off his time to regain second place 406 thousandths behind Martín, with "Pecco" Bagnaia third, while the Spanish Maverick were positioned on the second line Viñales, Dani Pedrosa and Aleix Espargaró.
In the third Brad Binder, Luca Marini and Marc Márquez, who improved his best time on the last lap he completed on the Italian track, with Miguel Oliveira, Alex Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) and Raúl Fernández on the fourth line.
