{"id":23862,"date":"2026-05-15T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23862\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:52:08","slug":"alex-marquez-tops-first-barcelona-motogp-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23862\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez tops first Barcelona MotoGP practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gresini\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/tag\/alex-marquez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez<\/a> topped the timesheets in the opening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/tag\/motogp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> practice session in Barcelona. <\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, who won the race back in 2025, posted a 1.39.950s, a lap over three tenths clear of the rest of the field.<\/p>\n<p>Recent Le Mans winner Jorge Martin finished second despite a crash at Turn 12 halfway through the session.<\/p>\n<p>Fabio Di Giannantonio, Pedro Acosta and championship leader Marco Bezzecchi followed to finish third, fourth, and fifth respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Enea Bastianini secured sixth and finished as the second lead KTM rider, closely followed by Fermin Aldeguer and Pramac Yamaha rider Jack Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Franco Morbidelli claimed ninth for VR46, with LCR Honda duo Johann Zarco and Diogo Moreira lapping 10th and 11th fastest.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Binder finished the opening session in 12th, besting Honda\u2019s Luca Marini, Yamaha\u2019s Fabio Quartararo and Aprilia\u2019s Raul Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Mir and Francesco Bagnaia followed in 16th and 17th, followed by Ai Ogura, Maverick Vinales on his return.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha\u2019s test rider Augusto Fernandez lapped faster than factory rider Alex Rins and MotoGP rookie Toprak Razgatklioglu, who closed out proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gresini\u2019s Alex Marquez topped the timesheets in the opening MotoGP practice session in Barcelona. The Spaniard, who won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,12665,1322],"class_list":{"0":"post-23862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-catalangp","10":"tag-motogp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}