The first of five days of official testing before the 2022 season, Saturday’s running at Sepang was eight hours long, with Sunday’s session the same length.
Aprilia rider Espargaro had already taken part in the unofficial shakedown for test riders, rookies and riders of concession manufacturers – of which Aprilia is the only one on the grid now – and got down to business straight away.
The Spaniard – who courted controversy last week after he broke the COVID bubble protocol for MotoGP outlined by Malaysian authorities, posted a 1m58.371s nine laps into his day and went unchallenged to the finish.
Team-mate Maverick Vinales – who also took part in the shakedown – was 0.013 seconds slower than Espargaro after a late effort amongst his 52 total laps of the track.
Both Aprilia riders were happy with their days. Espargaro had some problems on his bike but doesn’t feel the RS-GP needs a revolution anymore, while Vinales says he is still trying to adapt from the Yamaha he rode for part…
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