Reigning world champion ♈Francesco Bagnaia ended Friday practice at the 2024 MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix fastest of all from Marcও Marquez.

The factory Ducati rider is carrying some minor injuries from his tangle with🌳 Alex Marquez in last weekend’s Aragoꦚn GP.

After a steady start to Friday at Misano in FP1, Bagnaia shot to the top of the 🐭order in a frantic second prac🔜tice with a 1m30.685s putting him 0.185s clear of the field.

Gresini Ducati rider Marc Marquez was ꦏsecond again in the afternoon session, while championship leader Jorge Martin completed the top three.

All four championship leaders are directly into Q2 in qualifying after Enea Bastianini jumped u🎃p to fifth late on, while Yamaha will be represented by Fabio Quartararo.

Tech3 GASGAS rider Pedro Acosta set the initial pace aft꧂er the opening 10 minutes of running in the hour-long session.

The rookie fired in a 1m31.700sಌ, before improving to a 1m31.672s.

Marc Marquez would dethrone him with around 35 minutes to go with a 1m31.364s,🧔 though Acosta soon found a 1m31.301s to re-establish himself at the top of the order moments later.

As the🦋 time attack portion of second practice g🍬ot under way in the final 10 minutes, Marquez edged ahead again with a 1m31.034s.

Pramac’s Martin then dipped into the 1m30s barrier for the first timಞe this weekend with a 1m30🦩.966s.

But this wouldn’t be enough to stℱop Bagnaia’s charge, the reigning world champion first producing a🍰 1m30.885s on his factory team Ducati with three minutes to go before bettering it to a 1m30.685s next time around.

This would keep Bagnaia top of the standings as the chequered flag c👍ame out.

Marquez held onto second from Martin, while ♕his Pramac team-mate Franco Morbid𓄧elli made a late move to fourth ahead of Bastianini.

Acosta completed the top six after his stints leadi🅘ng Practice despite a late crash, with VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi, Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales, Quartararo - making his first Q2 appearance since June’s Dutch GP - and KTM’s Jack Miller.

The late improvement for Morbidelli for✨ced Brad Binder out of the top 10 and into Q1.

The KTM rider will have to fight wit♈h the likes of Aleix Espaꦡrgaro - who crashed his Aprilia in the closing moments - Pol Espargaro (KTM) and Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) in Q1 on Saturday morning.

Top Honda honours went to Johann Zarco in 15th, while 🦂Alex Rins struggled to match his Yamaha team-mate Quartararo’s Friday form in 17th. 

Full Practice results from the 2024 MotoGP San Marino GP