Jorge Martin seven-tenths clear after FP1 at Phillip Island

MotoGP 2023

Round 16 – Australia Grand Prix

MotoGP FP1

Superb conditions greeted us at Phillip Island this morning, clear blue skies, little wind and thermometers heading towards 25-degrees as the opening practice session of the Australian Grand Prix got underway just before 1100 on Friday morning. The track temperature was just hitting 30-degrees.

Jorge Martin wasted little time setting the pace, a 1m29.882 on his fifth lap. That benchmark survived for almost the entire session, it was not until there were only four-minutes left in the session that Maverick Vinales eclipsed Martin, lowering the marker to 1m29.777. Martin quickly retored in fine style though, a 1m29.266 with just over a minute left in the session, then backed that up with a 1m29.039 to underline his potential.  Martin also holds the outright all-time lap record here at Phillip Island, a 1m27.767 set here last year.

In the dying seconds Augusto Fernandez relegated Maverick Vinales to third place, only that trio in the 1m29s.

Brad Binder finished the session fourth ahead of Johann Zarco and Marco Bezzecchi.

Alex Marquez seventh ahead of Jack Miller and Enea Bastianini while Aleix Espargaro rounded out the top ten.

Marc Marquez had a soft front end lose at MG Hairpin 11 minutes into the session.  Alex Rins fell with just under 20-minutes remaining in the session.

MotoGP FP1 Resuts

MotoGP Championship Points

Moto2 FP1 Times

1. Fermín Aldeguer 01:32.7940
2. Pedro Acosta 01:33.0030
3. Aron Canet 01:33.2380
4. Joe Roberts 01:33.5720
5. Alonso Lopez 01:33.8570
6. Bo Bendsneyder 01:33.8650
7. Jake Dixon 01:33.9130
8. Tony Arbolino 01:33.9250
9. Marcos Ramirez 01:33.9810
10. Jeremy Alcoba 01:34.1360
11. Barry Baltus 01:34.2000
12. Celestino Vietti 01:34.2110
13. Izan Guevara 01:34.2730
14. Sam Lowes 01:34.2790
15. Albert Arenas 01:34.3950
16. Filip Salac 01:34.3970
17. Ai Ogura 01:34.4920
18. Dennis Foggia 01:34.5420
19. Darryn Binder 01:34.5520
20. Alberto Surra  01:34.7120
21. Sergio Garcia 01:34.8380
22. Manuel Gonzalez 01:34.8930
23. Lukas Tulovic 01:34.9540
24. Zonta Van Den Goorbergh 01:35.0540
25. Somkiat Chantra 01:35.1710
26. Taiga Hada 01:35.3530
27. Alex Escrig 01:35.9240
28. Rory Skinner 01:36.0660
29. Mattia-Casadei 01:36.4560
30. Kohta Nozane 01:37.0170

Moto2 Championship Points

Moto3 FP1 Times

1. David Munoz 01:37.6380
2. Ayumu Sasaki 01:37.9030
3. Riccardo Rossi 01:38.0340
4. Adrian Fernandez 01:38.1190
5. Diogo Moreira 01:38.1500
6. Jaume Masia 01:38.1520
7. Joel Kelso 01:38.2640
8. Ryusei Yamanaka 01:38.4470
9. Daniel Holgado 01:38.4750
10. Jose Antonio Rueda 01:38.5740
11. Deniz Öncü 01:38.6130
12. Collin Veijer 01:38.6840
13. Stefano Nepa 01:38.6900
14. Vicente Perez 01:38.8070
15. Ivan Ortola 01:38.9690
16. Nicola Fabio Carraro 01:39.1160
17. Mario Suryo Aji 01:39.2650
18. David Salvador 01:39.3140
19. Joshua Whatley 01:39.3150
20. Syarifuddin Azman 01:39.5290
21. Lorenzo Fellon 01:39.5490
22. Xavier Artigas 01:39.6390
23. Filippo Farioli 01:39.7270
24. Kaito Toba 01:40.2980
25. David Alonso 01:40.3610
26. Taiyo Furusato 01:40.6480
27. Scott Ogden 01:46.4600
28. Matteo Bertelle 01:42.6320

Moto3 Championship Points

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