2024 Spanish MotoGP, Jerez - Saturday Practice Results
*Rookie.
Official Jerez MotoGP records
Best lap: Francesco Bagnaia 1m 36.025s (2024)
Fastest race lap: Francesco Bagnaia 1m 36.025s (2023)
Marc Marquez dominates a wet final practice for the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez.
After a dry and sunny Friday, a downpour drenched the circuit on Saturday morning. The track remained fully wet for the opening MotoGP session of the day, with rain returning in the closing stages.
Marquez, third on Friday, looked instantly at home on his Desmosedici GP23 in the wet, leading much of the morning by over half-a-second from Raul Fernandez.
VR46s Fabio di Giannantonio eventually cut Marquez’s advantage to 0.076s.
World champion Francesco Bagnaia jumped to a late third on the factory Ducati, ahead of Fernandez and Aprilia’s man-of-the-moment Maverick Vinales.
Miguel Oliveira and rookie Pedro Acosta, whose only previous wet MotoGP outing was at the Sepang shakedown, followed. Acosta saved a big front-end slide.
Title leader Jorge Martin lost a visor on his outlap.
The Yamahas and Hondas continued to struggle for speed in the wet.
KTM riders Brad Binder, Jack Miller and wild-card Dani Pedrosa - plus past wet weathers stars Miguel Oliveira and Johann Zarco - are among those fighting for the last two Q2 transfer places in the upcoming Q1 session.
Spanish Moto2: Latest ResultsSpanish Moto3: Latest ResultsHome star and 31-time MotoGP race winner Dani Pedrosa headlines three wild-card entries this weekend, alongside Honda’s Stefan Bradl and Aprilia’s Lorenzo Savadori.
The trio are all race-testing some new parts. Pedrosa remains tight-tipped on the KTM developments, Savadori is described as riding a 'lab bike' (but no sign of the carbon fibre frame) and Bradl's Honda visibly features extensive aero updates.
