Jorge Martin's bid to keep his MotoGP championship chase alive by racing in the Malaysian Grand Prix with a broken wrist got off to a mixed start in Friday morning practice at Sepang. The good news was that he managed to complete the full session, covering 12 laps across multiple runs, and going back out again for the practice starts at the end of the session.
That mileage and his Aprilia team talking confidently about its strategy for Martin through the weekend suggest he is likely to get the medical clearance he requires to continue towards the race. Limiting the title fight damage looks tough, though. While Martin improved from being four seconds off the pace on his tentative first run, he was still 1.835s down and 20th fastest at the end of the session.
He will need to find substantially more pace to have a shot at scoring significant points in the championship battle. And the identity of the pacesetter was bad news for Martin too, with his title rival Marc Marquez's Ducati a comfortable fastest by 0.474s over Martin's Aprilia team-mate Marco Bezzecchi.
KTM's Pedro Acosta matched Bezzecchi's time in third, while Acosta's stablemates Enea Bastianini and Brad Binder used fresher tyres to go fourth and fifth at the end, just as sixth-placed Franco Morbidelli did during the competitive opening practice session of the weekend.
While one of Aprilia's injured duo looks set to continue with the weekend, the other was ruled out during practice one as Raul Fernandez pitted after four laps and was declared unfit for the rest of the event.
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