Marc Marquez made a statement on his first 🧜flying as he separa𝔍ted himself from the chasing pack by over half a second.

Pedro Acosta was the rider who slotted into second after overtaking Brad Binde✱r in the process.

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Binder then went quickest on his seꦛcond flying lap before aꦬ charge was coming from Marquez.

♏Marquez looked set to go top after a stunning sector three, however, the eight-time world champion had a big scare on the front-end as🍸 he lost too much time.

Like Marquez, a stunning sector three from Acosta looked good enough to secure provisional pole, howev🙈er, the rookie crashed at the final corner.

Moments after Marcoꦰ Bezzecchi went quickest, Marc Marquez put his Gresini Ducati back onto provisional pole before nearly crashing at turn one on his next lap.

Shocks in Q1 as Miller fails to advance in damp conditions

Following heavy overnight rain, qual▨ifying for the Spanish MotoGP took place in damp conditions.

Despite losing the rear and sliding his way into the final corner, Brad Binder🤡 went quickest with his first flying lap, ahead of Franco Morbidelli.

After losing top spot momentarily to Morbidelli, Binder went back to th🐈e front of the field t🔥hanks to a 1:48.626s.

Jack Miller, who was late joining the action, then moved up to third just behind Raul Fernandಌez who positioned himself behind Binder.

After losing💞 time in the final sector, Miller was then demoted to fourth behind Miguel Oliv♎eira.

Miller was then relegated to fifth position Dani Pedrosa went second aboard th🎐e third full factory KTM machine🐬.

A big lap then came in from former KTM rider Oliveira who went two tenths clear at the head of the l🐼eaderboard.

But the benchmark time was then moved forward by a considerable amount of time as♏ Morbidelli went half a second clear of Oli♓veira.

Bi𒁏nder, who was two tenths down comi🌃ng through sector three, then gained a lot of time back to close within +0.062s of Morbidelli’s top time.

There were f🌳urther changes as🐽 Morbidelli and Binder advanced to the second phase of qualifying.