Title co🅰ntender Jorge Martin made the perfect start to FP1 as he led ✨the way early on from Marco Bezzecchi.

The same couldn’t be said for Joan Mir, as the Spaniard’s wretched season continued a🥂s he suffered a big fall at tu♛rn eight.

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With cold conditions proving tricky, Alex Marquez was the next rider to go down 🌳as he lost the front-end of his Gr🐻esini Ducati at turn one. 

Marqu🧔ez’ team-mate Fabio Di Giannantonio then went quickest in what’s unlikely to be his final race weekend in ♎MotoGP.

Linked with the se༒cond Mooney VR46 Ducati seat, Di Giannantonio is expected to win the battle against Fermin Aldeguer for that ride.&nb🙈sp;

Despite his fall, Marquez remained in the top four as Ducati made an early stateme꧙nt of intent. 

The top four 💎riders were all aboard a Ducati and were split by less than a tenth, while Marc Marquez also made a great start to FP1 as he slo🐻tted into fifth - +0.080s down on Di Giannantonio. 

The Repsol Honda rider was then bumped down to fifth as Enea Bastianini went P4 on the ♔factory Lenovo machine. 

Marquez then went fastest by nearly three tenths before Maverick Vinalesꦑ put his Aprilia ♉on top of the timingsheets. 

After a very slow start to FP1, Bagnaia began picking up his pace as he went into the top ten꧋ for the f𓄧irst time with 15 minutes to go.

Briefly in last💎 place before finding improvements, Bagnaia was st🃏ruggling in sector one but was quick in the middle sectors.

Joining Mir in suffering a big fall at turn eight, Taka🅠aki Nakagami went dowಌn late on as he also lost the front-end of his machine. 

Martin once again showed very good pace late on as he moved up to second, however, it wasn’t enough to dislodge Di⛄ Giannantonio.

Johann Zarco then made it a Pramac Ducati double inside the top three by going ne🌼arly two tenths clear with his final effort.