At a Mugello racetrack bathed in an almost summer sun, the first day of MotoGP practice got underway. The script was the one we’ve all become accustomed to for the category: two fiercely competitive sessions, minimum gaps and, in the combined standings, 17 riders all within one second of one another.
Aleix Espargaró work on pace in the morning session, using only one rear tyre and developing his feeling on a track where, although he knows it well, he last competed in 2019. The afternoon FP2 session heated up in the final moments, with repeated time attacks aimed at taking a top-10 placement and, with it, provisional access to the second qualifying session (Q2). Mission accomplished for the Aprilia standard bearer, with a time of 1’46.655, just over one half of a second behind the leader.
Lorenzo Savadori, on the other hand, underwent his “baptism of fire”, astride a MotoGP bike for the first time here at Mugello. Therefore, he needed the first day to establish his references, which are vastly different for this category. In any case, the Italian rookie kept the gap down to 1.5 seconds, improving between the morning and afternoon by more than one second.
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