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Brad Binder (Red Bull Content Group)
Brad binder set the fastest time in Friday’s practice for this weekend’s MotoGP Emilia-Romagna.
In the afternoon session, South African Binder, who won the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic in August for his first victory and that of KTM at the top level, eclipsed the time set in the morning at Misano Adriatico by Fabio Quartararo.
His lap suggested that KTM had solved the problems that plagued its bikes in Sunday’s MotoGP in San Marino on the same track, when the team’s best finalist was tenth.
Binder finished Friday’s practice just 0.002 seconds better than Japanese rider Takaaki Nakagami (Honda-LCR).
Quartararo of the Yamaha satellite team was third best over the course of the day following a statement run in the morning session after a disastrous race on Sunday in which he crashed twice, did not finish and lost the lead. of the championship against Andrea Dovizioso.
His Yamaha-SRT teammate Franco Morbidelli, who won the San Marino GP, was sixth fastest.
Ducati’s Dovizioso only achieved 12th place and Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) was 14th in front of the groups of spectators authorized to attend.
Six-time champion Marc Márquez remains sidelined as he recovers from a broken arm he sustained in the opening race.
Fastest laps in the first two free practice sessions of Emilia-Romagna MotoGP:
1. Brad Binder (RSA / KTM) 1 min 31.628 s, 2. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN / Honda-LCR) at 0.002 s, 3. Fabio Quartararo (FRA / Yamaha-SRT) 0.016, 4. Maverick Vinales (ESP / Yamaha ) 0.041, 5. Pol Espargaró (ESP / KTM) 0.071, 6. Franco Morbidelli (ITA / Yamaha-SRT) 0.183, 7. Joan Mir (ESP / Suzuki) 0.298, 8. Miguel Oliveira (POR / KTM-Tech3) 0.337 , 9. Danilo Petrucci (ITA / Ducati) 0.345, 10. Johann Zarco (FRA / Ducati-Avintia) 0.444, 11. Francesco Bagnaia (ITA / Ducati-Pramac) 0.510, 12. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA / Ducati) 0.524, 13 . Iker Lecuona (ESP / KTM-Tech3) 0.610, 14. Valentino Rossi (ITA / Yamaha) 0.635
