Quickest at Valencia and Sepang, the VR46 rider had exchanged the top spot with Ducati’s reigning world champion168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Francesco Bagnaia on the way to second place on Saturday.

But Marini’s hopes of turning the tables on his countryman were blighted by technical issues with his GP22 on Sunday&nb𝕴sp;ꦅleaving the young Italian well outside the top ten as the final hour began.

Released from the garage for a time attack with just 20 minutes to go, Marini put the earlier probleཧms behind him and delivered his best lap of the test, snatching fourth place, 0.342s from Bagnaia.

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“Overall I'm satisfied with the pre-season: there's a good atmosphere within the team and we've worked hard. I had fun, I fee꧃l good and I enjoyed every lap on theℱ bike,” Marini said.

“[But] today was probably the hardest day, I had some bad luck and too many technical problems. At the end I gave my all, went out for the last 20 minutes and set my best lap tiꦗm🍰e.”

Marini also put together 🎃a competi♒tive Sprint race simulation, where he was again just three-tenths a lap (on average) from Bagnaia.

“I feel good, I can fight for the top 6 in qualifying and in the Sprint with the soft [rear tyre],” Marini said. “For the [Sunday] race, I think I'll opt for the medium rear, the performance a𒊎ren't very different, but in terms of long-distance it's [better].”

Bezzecchi: 'I'm not at 100% yet'

Marini’s late charge demoted team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi to fifth place by just 0.041s.

Last season’s Rookie of the Year, who set an almost identical Sprint race pace to Marini, feels he still has severa🌜l tenths of a second available.

“A good test, I'm happy even if the afternoon wasn't easy at all🅘. Putting everything together was more complicated than we expected. We made a step back and then it started to feel good,” 🦂said the Assen 2022 podium finisher.

“I'm not at 100% yet, but we did a great job and the Sprint race simulation isn't bad either. I can impro𒁏ve by 2-3 tenths on the single lap and keep pace with the fastest.”

Team manager Pablo Nieto added: “We are ready to face the race in the best possible way. Ducati and the whole team have done a lot and we are a very solid team with two ver💧y fast riders.

“💎We just have to di🅺scover the new format of the weekend, the last real unknown factor.”

The revised format sees FP4 disappear, 🏅qualifying move to Saturday𝓡 morning and the new Sprint race in the afternoon.