Italian MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia on top as Fabio Quartararo fails to secure automatic Q2 spot again

The big storyline head﷽ing into FP2 was surrounding Aleix Espargaro and whether he would be able to ride given the p𓆉hysical struggles he endured this morning's opening MotoGP practice.
Espargaro was in tears when sitting at the back of the Aprilia garage due to the pain in his ankle following a cycling accident on Thursday. Espargaro then decided not to finish the session as others set their first time attacks o𝓰f the weekend. However, Espargaro was out on circuit immediat🔥ely to start Practice 2.
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Getting all out of shape going into t﷽urn one was Pramac Ducati rider Jorge Martin, as the Le Mans sprint winne🌌r ran through the gravel.
Continuing his impressive pace fro🦹m FP1, Alex Marquez was the early pacesetter after taking over fr🎀om Miguel Oliveira.
Johann Zarco, who will use a special livery for this weekend’s Grand Prix, then went top to lead a Ducati 1-2-3.&nb♍sp;
Jorge Martin then made it four Ducatis in ওthe top four and himself, Bagnaia, Zarco and Marquez were the only riders under the 1m 47s barrier.
Only 16th on combined times, Ba✱gnaia wa﷽s third quickest in Practice 2 as he started to ramp up his pace.
With just under h✅alf the session remaining Bagnaia set the best fi♍rst sector of P2, however, the lap faded as it went on as he failed to improve on the combined classification.
Espargaro, who 🅰was seventh quickest and one place behind another rider that entered the weekend less than 100% in Miguel Oliveira, made the same mistake as Martin as he🌸 ran on at turn one.
Just the second rider to crash on day-one, Joan Mir’s dreaܫdful 2023 season continued as he went down at turn one.
The rider with the most crashes heading into this weekend, Mir’s fall in FP2 means he has suffered more crashes thro⛦ugh six rounds with Honda than the entire 20꧒22 campaign with Suzuki.
Although he seemed to be struggling m✨ore as the session went on, Espargaro headed back out o🔴n track with a quarter of the session remaining.
Third in FP1, Binder was aga💞in in red hot form when it came to the time attack✱ runs as he began his opening foray with a brilliant opening two sectors before running into traffic.
When traffic wa🅰s ♐no longer an issue, Binder made his mark as he went fastest overall from Alex Marquez.
Ducati then r📖easserted themselves as the manufacturer to beat as Bezzecchi, Martin and Bagnaia all went quicker. Bezzecchi and Martin broke into the 1m 45s barrier, while Raul Fernandez continued his great start to the Ita⛄lian MotoGP by slotting into P5.
In the tow of Vinales, Marc Marquez produced a sizzling effort to go quickest before Alex Rins overshadowed his fello༒w Honda rider by going top.
Bu🐲t the Honda duo were quickly usurped by reigning world champion Bagnaia and Bezzecchi.
Espargaro also produced a grea꧅t lap late on to crack the top ten at the expense of teammate Vinales. The Spaniard was not the only big name to miss out as Quartararo also failed to make it directly into Q2.