{"id":24118,"date":"2026-05-15T18:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24118\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:53:16","slug":"motogp-acosta-tops-timed-practice-in-barcelona-jorge-martin-to-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24118\/","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP: Acosta tops timed practice in Barcelona, Jorge Martin to Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday practice certainly delivered some unexpected results at the Catalan Grand Prix in Barcelona as championship contender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/jorge-martin\" title=\"Jorge Martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge martin<\/a> will have to fight for a place in Q2 tomorrow.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/pedro-acosta\" title=\"Pedro Acosta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Acosta<\/a> topped the afternoon session with a time of 1:38.710. He edged out Gresini&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/alex-marquez\" title=\"Alex Marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez<\/a> and his KTM teammate Brad Binder for the top spot.Aprilia will be disappointed only to have one rider in the top five. Trackhouse&#8217;s Raul Fernandez was the highest placed after Ogura crashed and Bezzecchi was placed in seventh. Jorge Martin still looked out of sorts after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/motogp\/jorge-martin-injured-in-fp1-crash-in-barcelona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heavy crash this morning in FP1<\/a>, the Spaniard was off the pace and crashed in the final minutes of session, ultimately finishing __ and being relegated to Q1 tomorrow.Ducati will likewise not be too happy with the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/francesco-bagnaia\" title=\"Francesco Bagnaia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Bagnaia<\/a> was narrowly eliminated and will have to compete in Q1 as well. Only two of the five Ducatis managed to make it into the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>it was a mixed day for Honda as both Zarco and Mir made it to Q2, however Luca Marini and Diogo Moreira find themselves further down the order and will have a tall order on their hands tomorrow to overcome like likes of Martin, Ogura and Pecco in Q1.<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha will also be happy with their results today. Jack Miller and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/fabio-quartararo\" title=\"Fabio Quartararo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabio Quartararo<\/a> both made the top ten in P9 and P10 respectively. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/toprak-razgatlioglu\" title=\"Toprak Razgatlioglu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toprak Razgatlioglu<\/a> and Alex Rins both struggled down in P19 and P21.MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix 2026: Timed Practice ResultsPositionRider (Team)Time1.Pedro Acosta (KTM Factory Racing)1:39.9502.Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing)+0.0183.Brad Binder (KTM Factory Racing)+0.0704.Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Racing)+0.0785.Johann Zarco (Castrol Honda)+0.0796.Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46)+0.1097.Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing)+0.1218.Joan Mir (Honda HRC)+0.1369.Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha)+0.20110.Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha)+0.26911.Enea Bastianini (KTM Tech3)+0.34912.Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo)+0.35013.Ai Ogura (Trackhouse Racing)+0.40514.Diogo Moreira (LCR Honda)+0.46415.Franco Morbidelli (VR46)+0.58516.Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Racing)+0.61217.Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing)\u00a0\u00a0+0.67918.Luca Marini (Honda HRC)+0.68019.Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pramac Yamaha)+0.82120.Maverick Vinales (KTM Tech3)+1.00121.Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha)+1.04222.Augusto Fernandez (Monster Energy Yamaha)+1.225<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday practice certainly delivered some unexpected results at the Catalan Grand Prix in Barcelona as championship contender Jorge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12795,92,12797,12796,12675,12677,1322,7310,12790,12794],"class_list":["post-24118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-alex-marquez","tag-barcelona","tag-fabio-quartararo","tag-francesco-bagnaia","tag-jorge-martin","tag-marco-bezzecchi","tag-motogp","tag-motogp-news","tag-pedro-acosta","tag-toprak-razgatlioglu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118","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=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}