2024 Italian MotoGP, Mugello - Friday Practice Results

* Rookie

Francesco Bagnaia sets the Friday practice pace for his home 2024 Italian MotoGP at Mugello ahead of an excellent performance by Yamaha’s Alex Rins.

But team-mate Fabio Quartararo and KTM's Brad Binder, who lost his best lap due to track limits, will be heading to Qualifying 1.

Marc Marquez, leader for most of the morning, set the first 1m 45s lap of the weekend to move swiftly to the top in the afternoon hour.

The Gresini Ducati GP23 rider stayed ahead of Rins - who struggled off this morning’s accident - throughout the middle stages. 

Desperate to avoid three successive Qualifying 1 appearances, Marquez safely progressed directly to Q2 with fifth place.

Marc’s younger brother Alex made his frustration at being held up by Bagnaia in the closing stages clear, with the incident put under investigation.

The reigning double champion shrugged it off by breaking into the ‘44s with three minutes to go, putting him almost half a second clear of the field.

Rookie Pedro Acosta bounced back from a 160km/h accident, after losing the front on entry to the Biondetti chicane at the midway stage, to take third place for GASGAS Tech3.

Miguel Oliveira impressed in fourth and top Aprilia for Trackhouse, with factory riders Vinales and Aleix Espargaro completing the top ten.

Wild-card Pol Espargaro equalled fellow KTM rider Brad Binder’s all-time MotoGP top speed record of 227.5mph/366.1km/h early in the afternoon, on his way to 18th.

* Rookie

Maverick Vinales puts Aprilia on top during Friday morning practice for the 2024 Italian MotoGP at Mugello.

Marc Marquez - who ruled out a 2025 switch to Pramac Ducati on Thursday - was fastest for most of the session on soft front/medium rear tyres, before rookie Pedro Acosta and then Vinales took over.

Like Vinales, former Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo put new rubber to slot into a late second place, with Pramac Ducati’s Franco Morbidelli in third.

Acosta slid off mid-corner at Turn 10 while setting red sectors at the end of the session, leaving him fourth.

Title leader Jorge Martin, tipped to have won the battle to be Francesco Bagnaia's 2025 factory Ducati team-mate, was fifth in FP1, with the reigning double champion in ninth.

The Yamaha and Honda riders had the benefit of recent private testing at Mugello, due to concessions.

Quartararo’s team-mate Alex Rins was fastest when he fell at Turn 1 after ten minutes, limping away from the track where he badly broke his leg a year ago.

Joan Mir, Luca Marini and Takaaki Nakagami now have the new RC213V fairing, debuted by Johann Zarco at Barcelona last weekend.

The Repsol riders also received a different engine configuration in Spain.

Pol Espargaro, making his wild-card debut for KTM, began the weekend in 15th.

Rain showers are a threat throughout the weekend.

Brad Binder set an all-time MotoGP top speed record of 227.5mph/366.1km/h during last year’s Mugello sprint race.