The French rider is in top form and dominates until practice, setting a best time of 1.39.447 first thing in the morning, with a slightly cooler atmosphere, which was already impossible to match for the rest of the day.
Although Pecco Bagnaia was very close, just four thousandths, leaving the feeling that if Takaaki Nakagami had not shot him on Sunday, we might have seen ‘races’.
The Japanese went crazy to the Catalan Grand Prix and took on Alex Rins and the Italian, and without Ducati’s spearhead we were left wanting to see if the red bike had something else to be in the fight with a Quartararo who won by ‘beating’ his rivals for a world (6.5 s). We will never know if Pecco’s speed would have enabled him to keep up with the Yamaha.
Johann Zarco, third on Sunday, repeated his place in the test, ahead of the brothers Aleix Espargaró and Pol Espargaró. With Jack Miller sixth and Maverick Viñales seventh. Franco Morbidelli, Enea Bastianini and Fabio Di Giannantonio rounded out the top 10.
Alex Márquez, who finished 16th, was the one who gave the most laps, a total of 96, turning until the last minute of the day. Zarco completed 93 and Bagnaia 84.
In the list of absentees, Jorge Martín stands out, who underwent surgery on Monday to correct the problem with his right hand. Alex Rins and Nakagami, both injured in the first corner of yesterday’s race, and Marc Márquez, who underwent surgery on his arm last Thursday.
The main novelty of the test was the many pieces that Honda brought, and the new 2022 fairing version two of Ducati, which the pilots liked but, for the moment, it will not be homologated in the short term. A revised version is expected later.
Results of the MotoGP test in Barcelona after the Catalan GP:
