Enea Bastianini heads into the Qatar MotoGP fastestও after topping the first warm-up session of 2022. 

Warm-up began with Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia on-track together, but unlik𒊎e Q2, it was the eight-time world champion leading the Duc🦩ati rider around the Lusail International Circuit. 

Bagnaia was no🍸t behind Marquez for long though as the Ducati rider made a late-braking move at turn one to get passed. 

On th🐼e following lap Marquez crashed at turn 10 - hisꦺ first of the weekend. 

While Marquez was busy picking up his RC213V from the gravel, second on theꦜ grid for today’s race Enea Bastianini went to the top of the leaderboard, while KTM’s Miguel Oliveira went P2. 

Despite his fall, Marquez chose t𒆙o stay out as his Repsol Honda suffered no damage from the crash. 

Fastest to start the session, current world champion Fabio Quartararo🍸 was then relegated to third before Aleix Espargaro 𝄹went second - making that fourth for the Yamaha rider with just under five minutes to go. 

Back-to-back crashes then took p𒀰lace for rookies Raul Fernandez and Fabio Di Giannantonio. 

Fernandez went down at turn four after losing th🌜e front end of his Tech 3 KTM, while the Gresin𓃲i Ducati rider went down at turn one. 

At the front, Za𒀰rco ma🔯de it a Ducati 1-2 after becoming the only rider to get within two tenths of Bastianini’s top time. 

Bastianini remained unmoved during the closing stages as was the case for Z🗹arco. Third was Aprilia’s Espargaro, while Oliveira and Quartararo rounded out the top five. 

More Ducati’s managed to secure t🉐op ten resu🐠lts as Bagnaia pipped pole sitter Martin to sixth.

Eighth was Franco Morbidelli who will start today’s race from 12th, while pre-r🎀ace favourites Alex Rins and Joan Mir were ninth and tenth - just ahead of Marquez. 

Struggles for the likes of Andrea 𝐆Dovizioso continued as the three-time MotoGP runner-up could only claim 22nd.