2024 MotoGP Test Jerez, Spain - Results

2024 MotoGP Test Jerez, Spain - Results
VR46 rider Fabio di Giannantonio tops the tiꦏmesheets at tꦑhe end of the MotoGP Jerez test.
Full lap times will be posted here shortly...
𝔍A late 1:36.492s lไap from Maverick Vinales puts him second-fastest at the end of the Jerez test.
Franco Morbidelli missed the entirety of pre-seaso♔n testing due to injury 🗹so he's put in some crucial laps on his Pramac Ducati today.
He has tested his settings and engine braking.
P🐬ramac rider is only 0.122s behind leader Di Giannantonio, with 50 minute🦩s left.
The order at the top of the timesheet is still:
1) Di Giannantonio
2) Morbidelli
3) Bagnaia
4) M Marquez
5) A Espargaro
6) A Marquez
Joan Mir: "We came from a test in Barcelona which was positive to understand. We didn’t get any upgra🧜des that ﷽allowed us to go faster.
"We know the direction to take. Now, just waiting on upgrades. There is a small step we can do [on Monday].🍰 I hope the upgrades come before the summer."
Jack Miller said: "There is some stuff on the cards. We’ve got a few things on the cards which will be interesting for later in thꩵe season.
"Stuff that Dani and Pol have already tried. 💃;
"Getting confirmation on whether or not we’re happy to mo💮ve in that direction, or whether we put it ♓off until the Barcelona test.
"It’s a first roll-out to understand wh🀅ere we can impr𝐆ove, in terms of fairing.
"The rest of it? There’s not much you can do mid-season. We🍰 have a fantastic package already. I’m sure the direction will be to our benefit."
Brad Binder said: "We have a couple of different set-ups to try on Monday. The test team have done… I don’t♒ know how many days here. They haܫve found things to try on Monday."
꧒Two and a half hours to go, Fabio di Giannantonio still fastest.
2) Franco Morbidelli
3) Francesco Bagnaia
4) Marc Marquez
5)Aleix Espargaro
Paolo Bꦏonora told Sky Italia: "For us,ꦗ it's an opportunity to check all the problems we had over the weekend.
"We focused on the setting and aerodynamics, with the aim of helping the riders find the right feeling whe🎃n entering corners and braking. ꦍ;
"Savadori continued the work started in the GP: on the chassis and also on the engine with 2025 solutions.
"In addition, we also worked on the start, which is an increasingly important aspect, start💫i꧃ng with the position in the saddle."
Ducati's Davide Tardozzi told Sky Italia: "We have seen great news from Honda and Yamaha, ♓they are reacting and heavi🉐ly.
"ꩲWe'll see t✨he results in due course, but they're doing important things."
But the VR46 rider is Ok after going d🌄own at Turn 5.
Team directo💮r Massimo Meregalli said: "We have a lot of items to test. We must prioritise.
"A𝔉fter Le Mans, we have two more test days in Mugello where we can test what we don't do here.
"The two biggest things to test and evaluat💜ed are the aero package - we want to homologate as soon as possible, depending on the riders' feelings - and the c🐽hassis.
"We are going to evaluate these items here.
"So far, from good information has come."
A 1:36.561s lap from the Pramac Ducati rider puts him bꦦehind only Fabio di Giannantonio after three hours and 10 minutes of the Jerez test.
Fabio di Giannantonio posts a 1🍸:36.405s lap to go top.
2) Francesco Bagnaia
3) Brad Binder
4) Marc Marquez
5) Maverick Vinales
"Martin's GP24 just went bang on the front straight,"ꦡ MotoGP.com 🧸are reporting.
"Testing is always posit🔯ive if you want to improve," Aleix Espargaro said.
"Lorenzo Savadori was testing something interesting [a new ride height device] which isn’t ready for us to test on a race weekend, so Monday is the perfect time to t♎est it."
Raul Fernandez said: "I have the opportunity to try a 2024 bike. It is good feedback for the future. I will receive the bike i🌱n four or five races."
"For sure, it will be importa🔜nt du༒ring the test," Jorge Martin said.
"But it’s not something we can change with set-up. It’s something inside the bike which we need to under൩stand. The test will help me."
Francesco Bagnaia said: "It will be very important.😼 I hope to solve some problems during the weekend. No pressure. We will try to do the maximum…"
A really noticable aerody✱namic part is being tested by Yamaha today.
They a💟re debuting a new front w🍒ing among other things.
Luca Ma🔯rini is testing a new chassis on his Honda, while teammate Joan Mir is so far using the standard bike.
LCR pair Johann Zarco and Takaaki Nakagami will tes🌠t brand-new RC213Vs which test rider Stefan Bradl has already tested.
The two bikes are different to each other. Zarco an♈d Nakagami will test one each.
Francesco Bagnaia is trialling new 𓆏geometry settings in the morning hours in Jerez.
Aleix Espargaro is testing a new ride height device for Aprilia. While Trackhouse's Raul Fernandez is riding the 2024 factory-spec bike which he w꧋ill begin racing with later this year.