New Mandalica Layout Leader by Paul Esparragaro and Fabio Quartararo

Lombok (Indonesia), Spain Paul Espagaro (Repsol Honda RC 213 V) on March 16, and Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) are the main leaders in the layout of the new Indonesian city of Mandalica on the island of Lombok. This weekend the place of the MotoGP Grand Prix in Indonesia was absent for 25 years, and then on the calendar of the world championships. In 1997, the final round of the motorcycle world championship was held in Indonesia, where at that time motorcycles with a two-stroke combustion cycle engine, and on the Sentul track, now returned to a completely new track. Most of its routes are for public and urban use. In the absence of competitions, during the training sessions that took place there, he received a lot of criticism for the general dirt on the asphalt and, in some points, the poor condition of the asphalt. At the end of this training session, the driver will certainly understand the changes, since the most important points of the route were repacked, especially from the 17th turn to the 5th turn. And when the training begins, it is necessary to show the best in the category, since Pol Esparó and Fabio Quartararo were already in the pre-season training session. Since Repsol Honda ended up on the podium of Lusail, it began to be very heterogeneous for both. The French had to settle for a discreet ninth position that sounded all the alarms among the engineers of the manufacturer in Iwata because it was the best result in Qatar. As always in the last MotoGP season, the differences were small, but the truth is that both Pol Esparó and Fabio Quartararo ended with a difference of 14,000 tenths of a second, already more than 2/10 seconds.Italian Luca Marini (Ducati Desmosedic GP-21). Pol Espargaró should not be the only benchmark because his team member Marc Márquez, who finished the training session in the ninth fastest time, was the fifth in Qatar and was very satisfied with his performance and the performance of his motorcycle. Repsol has never been favored by Honda championsIn the race in 2014, he won only that stage. In addition, if Fabio Quartararo did not end badly in that training session, the performance of his team member Franco Morbi Deli, Italy, was beaten by Espagaro, Quartaro, Marini and the official Aprilia driver Aleix Espargaró. In Qatar, Noale's RS-GP has taken an important step by taking fourth place. As for Ducati riders, in general, anyone can guess. In Lusail, the Italian Enea Bastianini won, but it should not be a general trend of the season, because it won with the “old” motorcycle of 2021, but the truth is that the Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia and Australian Jack Miller, official representatives of Borgo manufacturer Panigale did not climb to this event, so in Mandalica it is expected that the situation will change completely. The representatives of Suzuki, Joan Mir and Alex Rins, made a good intervention in the sixth and seventh Grand Prix of the season and were not bad at the training sessions held on the track in Indonesia recently. Like them, the KTM rider, who took the South African Brad Binder for the second time, should also have “representation”, but the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira, a member of the official team, was also not very successful in the Mandalica test. Like the KTM riders, the Spanish Jorge Martín, who is one of Ducati's great hopes, has not shone excessively, although he is already saying that he is replacing the Australian Miller in the official team. In Mandalica, he was not too lucky and did not even take part in his first race. Qatar hit him in the form of a Bagnaia motorcycle, and when he completely entered the line of the Lusail circuit. Among the debut stages, the Spanish Raúl Fernández (KTM RC 16) does not seem to have one of his great allies in Austrian mechanics, and the 18th place in Qatar will be as disappointing as Alex Márquez (Honda RC 213 V). His fall, Maverick Vinales does not continue to “take” the new Aprilia RS. His twelfth position in GP and Lusail is not really a reflection of the problems faced by the Girona rider of Rose. Juan Antonio Yados