2023 Portimão MotoGP Practice 1 Results: Alex Marquez Leads Joan Mir As MotoGP Hits The Track

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.

This afternoon's session session of practice will decide entry to Q2. It is 15 minutes longer than last year, at a full hour, and the time lost this morning will make for a very busy session.

Results:

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Prev
1	73	Alex Marquez	Ducati	1:38.782
2	36	Joan Mir	Honda	1:38.827	0.045	0.045
3	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1:38.922	0.140	0.095
4	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Ducati	1:39.018	0.236	0.096
5	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1:39.068	0.286	0.050
6	12	Maverick Viñales	Aprilia	1:39.180	0.398	0.112
7	89	Jorge Martin	Ducati	1:39.206	0.424	0.026
8	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1:39.281	0.499	0.075
9	1	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1:39.475	0.693	0.194
10	93	Marc Marquez	Honda	1:39.537	0.755	0.062
11	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1:39.552	0.770	0.015
12	43	Jack Miller	KTM	1:39.558	0.776	0.006
13	42	Alex Rins	Honda	1:39.595	0.813	0.037
14	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1:39.629	0.847	0.034
15	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1:39.682	0.900	0.053
16	88	Miguel Oliveira	Aprilia	1:39.794	1.012	0.112
17	25	Raul Fernandez	Aprilia	1:39.894	1.112	0.100
18	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1:40.059	1.277	0.165
19	37	Augusto Fernandez	GasGas	1:40.203	1.421	0.144
20	44	Pol Espargaro	KTM	1:40.471	1.689	0.268
21	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	1:40.477	1.695	0.006
22	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1:40.986	2.204	0.509