Pedro Acosta fastest as rain curtails Barcelona MotoGP…

Pedro Acosta led the way for KTM in a rain-shortened MotoGP test in Barcelona on Monday, while Jorge Martin suffered his sixth crash of the weekend.

Following Sunday’s chaotic Catalan Grand Prix, MotoGP riders returned to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for the final in-season test of the year.

Only 18 race riders (plus Yamaha tester Augusto Fernandez) were in action, with Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco spending the morning in the hospital after suffering fractures in Sunday’s race. Catalan GP winner Fabio di Giannantonio also sat out the test to recover from an injury to his left hand, while reigning world champion Marc Marquez skipped the entire Barcelona weekend after undergoing surgery the week before.

After the light went green at 10am local time, Fabio Quartararo set the early pace for Yamaha, testing a unique four-element front wing on his factory M1.

The session was red-flagged in the second hour, when 2024 champion Martin suffered a hard fall at Turn 7. It compounded a miserable weekend for the factory Aprilia rider, but he was able to walk away from the incident without further implications after scans at the hospital revealed no fractures.

After the session resumed, the KTM riders began lighting up the timesheets, with Catalan GP polesitter Acosta rising to the top with a time of 1m38.767s. Tech3’s Enea Bastianini jumped to third place behind Quartararo, while his team-mate Maverick Vinales rose to fourth and gained valuable mileage after missing several races due to injury.

Just before the morning session concluded, rain hit the track, forcing all riders to return to the pits. The conditions failed to improve after the lunch break and, 90 minutes before the scheduled finish at 6pm local time, the test was officially cut short.

That meant Acosta ended the day on top by 0.064s from Quartararo, with Bastianini and Vinales finishing third and fourth as the only other riders to lap in the 1m38s bracket.

Jorge Martin transported in an ambulance

Trackhouse duo Raul Fernandez and Ai Ogura finished fifth and sixth respectively, with Gresini rider Fermin Aldeguer leading Ducati’s charge in seventh ahead of VR46’s Franco Morbidelli. LCR Honda rookie Diogo Moreira was ninth, while Francesco Bagnaia rounded out the top 10 for factory Ducati.

Bagnaia continued to report pain in his neck following his crash with Zarco on Sunday, having already admitted that he had felt dizzy after the final race restart.

Martin, who did not return to the track, finished down in 17th, only ahead of Yamaha’s test rider Fernandez and Pramac rookie Toprak Razgatlioglu.

There was little new to see in the Barcelona test, with most manufacturers having already introduced major upgrades at Jerez last month.

The attention now turns towards the 2027 regulations, with race riders set to get their first opportunity to sample the 850cc bikes in a tyre test at Brno in June.

Photos from Catalan GP - Sunday

MotoGP Barcelona test - Full results:

Pos.	Rider	Team	Time/gap	laps
1	Pedro Acosta	KTM Factory Racing	1m38.767s	28
2	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha MotoGP Team	+0.064	30
3	Enea Bastianini	KTM Tech3	+0.117	25
4	Maverick Vinales	KTM Tech3	+0.190	40
5	Raul Fernandez	Trackhouse MotoGP Team	+0.240	36
6	Ai Ogura	Trackhouse MotoGP Team	+0.294	38
7	Fermin Aldeguer	Gresini Racing	+0.316	35
8	Franco Morbidelli	VR46 Racing Team	+0.361	41
9	Diogo Moreira	LCR Team	+0.487	41
10	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati Team	+0.552	23
11	Marco Bezzecchi	Aprilia Racing	+0.792	40
12	Brad Binder	KTM Factory Racing	+0.855	28
13	Alex Rins	Yamaha MotoGP Team	+0.995	32
14	Luca Marini	Honda HRC	+1.076	41
15	Joan Mir	Honda HRC	+1.090	32
16	Jack Miller	Pramac Yamaha	+1.176	32
17	Jorge Martin	Aprilia Racing	+1.225	15
18	Augusto Fernandez	Yamaha Factory Racing	+1.257	39
19	Toprak Razgatlioglu	Pramac Yamaha	+1.285	45