MotoGP | GP Assen FP2: Bezzecchi still at the top, Bagnaia is fourth

MotoGP Dutch GP Assen Free Practice 2 – Marco Bezzecchi, following what was done by Jaume Masia in Moto3 and Jake Dixon in Moto2, confirmed the best time in the first free practices also in the second session of the MotoGP class Dutch Grand Prix, the eighth round of the 2023 MotoGP championship scheduled for Assen.

The Mooney VR46 Racing Team rider took his Ducati Desmosedici GP to the top with a time of 1:32.063, managing to get behind Sachsenring winner Jorge Martin on Ducati Pramac and Jack Miller on KTM.

Pecco Bagnaia recovers, who after the 12th time of the morning, finishes fourth, exactly two tenths from the top. The reigning Ducati champion seems to have solved the problems of the morning, putting Maverick Vinales' Aprilia and Fabio Quartararo's Yamaha behind him, with the latter who we remember runs with an injured foot while jogging. For him, fracture of the big toe of his left foot, the one with the gear lever.

Aleix Espargarò also did well, finishing seventh with the second Aprilia RS-GP ahead of Brad Binder's KTM and the Ducatis of Luca Marini (Mooney VR46 Racing Team) and Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing).

All these riders access directly to Q2 while they will have to pass through the Q1 trap, among others: Johann Zarco on Ducati Pramac, the Aprilia RNF riders Raul Fernandez and Miguel Oliveira, Takaaki Nakagami, our Enea Bastianini, Franco Morbidelli, Fabio Di Giannantonio , Lorenzo Savadori and Marc Marquez.

The latter, keeping his promise, did not take the risks of the Sachsenring where he had crashed too many times and had given up on the race and finished 19th, 1.422s behind Bezzecchi. However, there was no shortage of a crash at the end of the session.