Rookie sensation Pedro Acosta finished top of the charts in MotoGP’s final practice session at Misano.
The 20-year-old posted a lap time of 1.31.451s on his final run of the session to finish as fastest, demoting Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo to second.
Quartararo previously posted back-to-back fastest laps in a massive turnaround in form for the factory Yamaha, with the 2021 champion showing he could be an underdog for this weekends race.
Francesco Bagnaia made some adjustments to his Ducati throughout the session, but he set a competitive lap time at the final ten minutes of the session. The double reigning champion improved on every lap time before finishing third overall.
Gresini’s Marc Marquez once again showed his competitive edge aboard the year-old Ducati, but a crash at Turn 14 with two minutes left on the clock halted a last-second run to finish top of the session. He finished in fourth spot and finished only 0.039s adrift of Acosta’s benchmark lap time.
Pramac’s Jorge Martin and Franco Morbidelli finished fifth and seventh respectively, with Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales in between with sixth place.
Enea Bastianini and Raul Fernandez finished eighth and ninth respectively, with Brad Binder the nearest KTM to Acosta who rounded off the top ten.
Aleix Espargaro previously set runs that put him at the tail end of the grid but finished the session 11th overall with GasGas rider Augusto Fernandez behind.
Marco Bezzecchi improved from Friday’s runs to finish 13th, with lead Honda rider Johann Zarco ending his session in 14th.
Miguel Oliveira finished in 15th as the last Aprilia rider aboard his Trackhouse bike, with the Repsol Honda duo of Luca Marini and Joan Mir occupying 16th and 17th slots.
Alex Marquez finished 18th ahead of KTM’s Jack Miller, with surprise name Fabio Di Giannantonio ending his session in 20th.
Takaaki Nakagami finished as the last Honda rider, with Alex Rins occupying the last place in the classification.
