With lap times slow to begin with, Aprilia soon changed that as Argentina MotoGP winner Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales set t🎐he 🐲first 1m 37s laps of the session. 

Moments later and Alex Marquez, who enjoyed a much needed return to form in Portimao, ꦰhad to pull off-track due to an apparent technical issue. 

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In need of serious improvements following his disastrous day-one - suffered two crashes on the same lap before finishing P19 - Marc Marquez was one of the first riders to go faster 🍬than what he man♛aged in FP2. 

The eight-time world ♎champion mov🔯ed up to 15th, while A. Espargaro went even quicker. 

The Aprilia rider remained inside the top five, however, a time of 1:37.386s was his overall best lap at th𓃲at stage. Making it an Espargaro 1-2, Pol put his RC213V second - +0.244s off his older brother. 

After going fastest ahead of Espargaro, Mir then slotted in between both Repsol Honda riders as he and Pol began to gap Marquez, once again show💫ing that the latter is struggling for pace around Jerez. 

While this was happening, Quartararo was in the middle of setting an outrageously quick race simulatiﷺon. Mid to high 1m 37s were being set, while Jack 🎃Miller was consistently a second slower for comparison.

Continuing his impressive run of late, rookie Marco Bezzecchi on🌺ce again positioned himself inside the top ten as soft tyre runs began. 

Still on a race run, Quartararo looked set t🔜o challenge Mir’s top time after going fastest of anyone in the first sector, however, the lap went away from the reigningꦅ world champion who instead returned to pit lane. 

Mir then went second quickest on combined times, before Francesco Bagnaia set a stunning time of 1:36.782s to go quickest overall. 🦄;

Marc Marquez saves Jerez MotoGP FP3 with a last-gasp effort

After bickering on-track during FP2, Pol Espargaro once again had Marquez shadowing ༒him as✃ they began their time attacks. 

With Marquez now in clean air but struggling, Takaaki Nakagami showed the pace of the bike as he went second. Quartararo then moved back ahead of the Japanese rider - +0.0🐠67s off Bagnaia. 

Marquez then chose t♚o abort his current run with just under ten minutes left, as he remained off the pace in 15th.

As he re-joined the action, Marquez found Miller in front as he ♑attempted to use the Australian as a tow. And he did! 

Miller went seventh, however, Ma🧔rquez bettered the Ducati rider by nearly two tenths in order to go fourth. 

With Marquez finally finding pace, the same couldn’t be said about Sꦕtefan Bradl and Alex Marquez as both riders crashed ൲(turn six and 13).

P. Espargaro then joined his fellow Bradl and Marquez in crashing, again at turn 13, making it three falls i꧑nside five minutes for the Japanese manufacturer.