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The premier class took to the track for this brand new exhibition session and Fabio Quartararo did show off to begin with, making a fast start at the top of the timesheets until the Ducatis woke up. Marco Bezzecchi jumped ahead barely 10 minutes into the session and kept top spot until the chequered flag, with Quartararo demoted to second but also setting a good pace. Aleix Espargaro progressed to third throughout the session, ahead of Pecco Bagnaia, whose session ended with a fast tumble at turn one.

The first hour-long session of timed practice for the MotoGP class got off to a halting start. The session was red flagged after a power cut in Race Direction meant that they couldn't run the session. Practice resumed for half an hour, until Pol Espargaro had a massive crash at Turn 10, being flicked off his bike and then pushed to the barrier by it, hitting the barrier on his own. As horrific as the crash looked, he was reported to be conscious and was transported to a local hospital for further examination and treatment.

The first session of MotoGP practice for the year started with tricky conditions, a dryish track where a few drops of rain had fallen during the latter part of the Moto2 session. That disrupted the team's practice programs, meaning some riders pushed on a new tire, while others didn't.

Alex Marquez ended the session as fastest, taking to the Gresini Ducati like a duck to water. Joan Mir disrupted the Ducati party by putting the Repsol Honda into second, while the Mooney VR46 team of Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi took third and fourth.

Pecco Bagnaia has destroyed the Portimão lap record at the final MotoGP test of the year to lead the test going into the opening race of the season in two weeks time. Bagnaia posted a lap of 1:37.968, nearly eight tenths faster than his own pole record from 2021.

Bagnaia wasn't the only rider to get under the lap record. Everyone in the first 12 places was faster than Bagnaia's 1:38.725 from 2021.

Times with 1 hour of the test to go:

Times at 2:30pm:

The final day of testing has started, and the riders have turned their attentions to race simulations. Very few new parts have made an appearance, though a few teams have tried some new aero. Three hours into the test, Pecco Bagnaia leads an Italian charge, with Jorge Martin making it a Ducati 1-2, and Miguel Oliveira sitting in third. Alex Marquez, who had a small crash before noon, is fourth, while Aleix Espargaro is fifth.

Times at 12:30pm:

Reigning MotoGP champion Pecco Bagnaia laid down a marker on the first day of the Portimão MotoGP test, getting within a few hundredths of his own outright lap record set at the race in 2021. The Ducati Lenovo rider was a quarter of a second faster than Luca Marini on the Mooney VR46 Ducati GP22.

Times at 3:30pm:

Luca Marini leads the way at lunchtime on the first day of the Portimão test, the VR46 rider getting down into race lap record territory, just a tenth of a second behind Fabio Quartararo's official lap record set during the 2022 race. Marini leads an echelon of Italians, Pecco Bagnaia, Fabio Di Giannantonio, and Jorge Martin filling out the top four on Ducatis, Maverick Viñales putting the Aprilia into fifth spot, Alex Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi putting their satellite Ducatis into sixth and seventh, Miguel Oliveira in eighth on the RNF Aprilia.