MotoGP’s return to Argentina for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began has been dominated by the freight issues which forced Friday’s sessions to be cancelled.
With the missing cargo – majorly affecting Gresini, VR46 and KTM who were missing motorcycles, while many others were also hit by the delays – turning up in the early hours of Saturday, the rescheduled FP1 was delayed to 12:35pm local time and extended by 15 minutes to an hour.
Just one more 60-minute practice remains before qualifying later this evening.
The delays to the weekend proved crucial for Nakagami, who was originally ruled out of the Argentina round after testing positive for COVID earlier in the week.
However, having tested negative several times since, Nakagami arrived at Termas de Rio Hondo on Saturday and led FP1 in the opening stages with a 1m43.246s.
As the dirty track surface continued to clear, top spot changed hands frequently across the opening 20 minutes of running.
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