Eight-time world champion was cream of the crop in Aragon MotoGP practice
A few years ago, Marc Marquez said in a pre-event press conference that Aragon was one of the circuits he would mark on his calendar where he feels like has one of the the best possibilities to win the grand prix.
Arriving at the Spanish venue, the riders were met with a completely new track surface. Predictably, the opening 45-minute session of the day saw lap times well off, with Marc Marquez leading the way on a 1m48.289s. While not abnormal to see a reasonably big field spread at one of the longer laps on the calendar, 1.054s covering the top 10 is a pretty sizeable gap at the end of day one - especially compared to the same session in 2022, which saw the top 10 covered by just 0.491s.
Franco Morbidelli in seventh was 0.904s down, while Enea Bastianini was 1.230s off in 15th - though he did have a lap set to improve on this scuppered by yellow flags for Jack Miller’s crash at Turn 16 late on in FP2. For the first time since the 2021 Americas GP, Marquez topped both of Friday’s practice sessions. Not for nothing, but he did go on to win that grand prix - his 29th career MotoGP victory on an anticlockwise circuit.
On a 17-lap-old medium rear tyre, Marquez managed a 1m47.573s. Championship leader Bagnaia was actually faster at 1m47.553s, but this was done on a medium tyre with 11 laps on it.
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