Honda’s Pol Espargaro set the benchmark at 1m54.775s at the start of the session, but Bagnaia demolished this with his opening gambit of 1m53.273s on his factory Ducati.
Setting a new lap record, this immediately fell to team-mate Jack Miller just moments later, who fired in a 1m53.215s having set an unofficial lap record during the Qatar test a fortnight ago.
Fabio Quartararo raised the …Keep reading