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Qatar MotoGP Test Day 1 Subscriber Notes: Real Work Gets Done

The first day of the Qatar test went pretty much as you might expect. Michele Pirro was sent out to do the drudgery of the test rider: going out and turning laps as soon as the track opened to try to clean up a habitually filthy track. After half an hour, the Ducati test rider was joined by Pedro Acosta, the Tech3 GASGAS rookie eager to grab track time whatever the circumstances, racking up a total of 73 laps by the end of the day. That's 20+ more than most other riders, only Maverick Viñales and Marco Bezzecchi hitting the 60-lap mark.

By the end of the second hour of the test, the track was filling up, and as more and more riders lapped, the surface starting to clean up nicely. By the end of the first day, Pecco Bagnaia was lapping with a few tenths of the outright lap record set here last November by Luca Marini.


David EmmettTue, 20/02/2024 - 01:24

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