After Joan Mir’s podium at Motegi on Sunday, team-mate Luca Marini took over the HRC limelight by main opening apply for the Indonesian MotoGP.
The Italian switched to new medium tyres to vault to the highest by 0.136s over KTM’s Pedro Acosta (new entrance tyre, previous rear) on his last lap.
Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi was quickest for a lot of the 45-minutes and completed third, because the quickest rider to not have modified tyres, conserving the identical laborious entrance and medium rear rubber.
Additionally on previous hard-medium tyres, for one of many largest surprises of the morning, was Yamaha’s Alex Rins, who briefly led the session on his option to fourth.
The Spaniard’s tempo on 22-lap previous tyres led to ideas the on-screen tyre information may need been incorrect however was later confirmed as true by the official classification.
Newly topped MotoGP champion Marc Marquez kicked off the weekend with fifth place for Ducati Lenovo, however team-mate and double Motegi winner Francesco Bagnaia was solely seventeenth.
Each stored the identical tyres all through the session.
Pramac Yamaha’s Jack Miller fitted new tyres for a late sixth place, with Rins’ team-mate Fabio Quartararo staying on previous rubber for seventh.
VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio, Mir and Gresini’s Alex Marquez accomplished the highest ten.
Gresini’s Fermin Aldeguer was the one faller however many riders suffered scares on the recent and slippery floor.
The laborious entrance and mushy (Dash) or medium (Grand Prix) rears had been the popular alternative for final 12 months’s Indonesian spherical.
Michelin has modified its medium entrance compound, after riders disliked the previous model and skipped straight from mushy to laborious up to now.
Riders often chosen ‘undesirable’ compounds for FP1 to keep away from utilizing up their favoured tyres on a unclean observe.
This afternoon’s Follow, which can determined direct Q2 entry, will thus be extra consultant of race and qualifying tempo.
