{"id":24023,"date":"2026-05-15T15:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24023\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:12:14","slug":"pedro-acosta-leads-the-way-in-second-barcelona-motogp-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Acosta leads the way in second Barcelona MotoGP practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KTM rider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/tag\/pedro-acosta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Acosta<\/a> ended Friday\u2019s work on top of the timesheets after Barcelona\u2019s second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/tag\/motogp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> practice session.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard posted a 1.38.710s aboard the RC16, followed by first practice table topper Alex Marquez in second.<\/p>\n<p>The top five positions were separated by only 0.079s, with Acosta\u2019s team-mate Brad Binder ending the day in third place.<\/p>\n<p>Raul Fernandez secured fourth spot, lapping 0.001s quicker than Honda\u2019s Johann Zarco, with the Frenchman finishing as the top Honda rider.<\/p>\n<p>Fabio Di Giannantonio finished as the top Ducati rider in sixth, followed by championship leader Marco Bezzecchi and Joan Mir.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha riders Jack Miller and Fabio Quartararo secured ninth and 10th, respectively, meaning all manufacturers had two riders qualifying straight to Q2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Enea Bastianini narrowly missed out after finishing 11th, lapping quicker than factory Ducati\u2019s Francesco Bagnaia and recent podium finisher Ai Ogura.<\/p>\n<p>Diogo Moreira posted the 14th fastest time, ahead of VR46\u2019s Franco Morbidelli and Gresini\u2019s Fermin Aldeguer.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Martin finished down in 17th place for factory Aprilia, lapping quicker than Luca Marini and Toprak Razgatlioglu.<\/p>\n<p>Maverick Vinales, on his return, was 1.0s off the pace, lapping quicker than Alex Rins and Augusto Fernandez. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KTM rider Pedro Acosta ended Friday\u2019s work on top of the timesheets after Barcelona\u2019s second MotoGP practice session.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,12665,1322],"class_list":{"0":"post-24023","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\/24023","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=24023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}