Italian MotoGP: Maverick Vinales fastest in FP1 as Fabio Quartararo shines

Maverick Vinales ends the opening MotoGP pra๊c♒tice at Mugello fastest ahead of Fabio Quartararo.

Maverick Vinales
Maverick Vinales

Fresh off his best weekend of the season last time out in Barcelona, Aleix Espargaro was 🍷the first rider t🥃o fall victim to the hard-braking turn one.

The Aprilia rider avoided a crash, however, he did run into the gravel before re-jo𝐆ining the action with very dirty tyres.

Alex Rins maꦗde a good start to FP1 as he put his Yamaha top of the leaderboard ahead of bot💜h Marquez brothers.

However, Rins saw his progress halted at turn one when he crashed just ahead of Pedro Acosta, who also ran off the track and in🉐to the gravel.

Marc Marquez then relegated Rins to P2 when he went over a🎀 tenth quicker than the Yamaha rider.

A time of 1:46.587s was set by the eight-time world championꦚ, while Bagnaia, who is aiming to make it three Mugello wins in succession this weekend, was third fastest.

As race runs continued to dominate FP1, Pedro Acosta moved into second spot be🌺hin🔯d Marquez.

With less than ten minutes to ♕go Acosta then went to the top of the leaderboard with a time of 1:46.459s.

Maverick Vinales then lowered the benc🌠hmark time evern further as he closed in on t🌄he first sub 1m 46s lap of the weekend.

Franco Morbidelli then slotted his GP24 Ducati bike into second spot before Acosta c📖rashed his K💫TM at turn ten.

Fabio Quartararo became the latest rider to find t🉐ime late on as he put his M1 second behind former team-mate Vinales.

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