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MotoGP Sepang test: Bastianini goes under lap record for Ducati to top day two
In the morning session, Martin from Pramac Ducati set a new lap record at Sepang with a time of 1m57.273s, staying ahead of Brad Binder from KTM. However, in the final hour of track running, Bastianini recorded a blazing time of 1m57.134s, moving ahead of Martin and coming close to breaking the 1m56s barrier. Binder finished in third place, followed by Aleix Espargaro from Aprilia and Francesco Bagnaia from Ducati. Fabio Di Giannantonio, riding for VR46 Ducati, took sixth place, while Alex Marquez from Gresini finished seventh. Rookie Pedro Acosta from GasGas Tech3 impressed with an eighth-place finish. Marco Bezzecchi, Joan Mir, and Fabio Quartararo also posted strong lap times, with all of them lapping within the 1m57s mark. Marc Marquez had a relatively quiet day, adapting to the Gresini Ducati, but managed to complete the most laps with a total of 72. Franco Morbidelli and Raul Fernandez were absent from the test due to injuries, and they were replaced by Michele Pirro and Lorenzo Savadori. The Sepang pre-season test will conclude tomorrow.
