Aprilia had excelled in similar low grip conditions at Catalunya, where Espaℱrgaro and team-mate Maverick Vinales deliver🍸ed the factory’s historic first MotoGP one-two.

That result was repeated on day one at a dusty Mandalika, Espargaro returning from a fall to s🅠e🌸t a new lap record of 1m 30.474s despite having a better lap cancelled and his front tyre being ’destroyed’.

But it wasn’t just new rubber speed, the Ap🎃rilia pair had been just as dominant on used tyres. Indeed, Espargaro said he felt even better than when riding at his home Barc🦩elona circuit last month.

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“I did a really fast lap with the first [new] tyre, then I crashed, then I w💎as fast again immediately after the crash but found a yellow flag when I was half a second under,” Espargaro recalled.

“T🧜hen on lap five with the front tyre - the front tyre was already destroy🌟ed! - I did the ‘30.4. So it means that you really have the speed.

“But apart f🍬rom the fast lap, the second run with the𒅌 used rear tyre was very fast.

“I managed the fastest lap of the session [at that stage] a ’31.3 with 💖a used tyre in [what would be] the las✤t lap of the Sprint race, let's say. So this is the most important.

“I have to say that maybe I enjoy today more than in Barcelꦍona. In Barcelona, I was a little bit more on the limit and today, even if I crashed, I enjoyed a lot riding the bike.

“T🦋he grip is noไt fantastic but I was able really to understand and to ride in the limit of the bike, in the limit of the track and I had a lot of fun.”

Although the track ♈was visibly dusty,🌟 the triple MotoGP race winner praised the quality of the resurfacing and felt the could have gone half-a-second faster.

“I don't think that the grip is worse than Barcelona or Argentina or꧂ Qatar. And one thing we have to remember is that it’s Friday. And I think if I didn't crash, I could go into the 1m 29. And I didn't go ✨under 1m 32 last year. So I think [the surface] is good.

“The good thing is that we’ve been to some circuits where they’ve put ne𝐆w asphalt and there was a lot of small b🏅umps already. This track is perfect. No bumps.

"Yes, it's very slippery because there's no activity and there is a lot of dust. But every lap is better. So for me they did a very good job. Last year was really in the limit! And this ♏year is completely another thing. For me it's very good.”

Espargaro is currently๊ fifth in the w🌱orld championship, 30 points behind KTM’s Brad Binder and 9 ahead of Johann Zarco.