German MotoGP, Sachsenring - Warm-up Results
PosRiderNatTeamTime/DiffLapMax
1Marco BezzecchiITAMooney VR46 Ducati (GP22)1'20.999s4/8302k
2Jorge MartinSPAPramac Ducati (GP23)+0.062s7/7302k
3Francesco BagnaiaITADucati Lenovo (GP23)+0.098s6/7302k
4Miguel OliveiraPORRNF Aprilia (RS-GP22)+0.134s5/8298k
5Fabio QuartararoFRAMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1)+0.198s5/8298k
6Takaaki NakagamiJPNLCR Honda (RC213V)+0.224s5/8295k
7Johann ZarcoFRAPramac Ducati (GP23)+0.237s5/7300k
8Brad BinderRSARed Bull KTM (RC16)+0.303s5/8301k
9Jack MillerAUSRed Bull KTM (RC16)+0.339s6/8302k
10Aleix EspargaroSPAAprilia Racing (RS-GP23)+0.357s7/8298k
11Franco MorbidelliITAMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1)+0.372s4/7298k
12Luca MariniITAMooney VR46 Ducati (GP22)+0.390s5/7303k
13Alex MarquezSPAGresini Ducati (GP22)+0.413s7/8299k
14Augusto FernandezSPATech3 GASGAS (RC16)*+0.457s8/8296k
15Fabio Di GiannantonioITAGresini Ducati (GP22)+0.572s4/4297k
16Enea BastianiniITADucati Lenovo (GP23)+0.588s7/7300k
17Raul FernandezSPARNF Aprilia (RS-GP22)+0.817s4/7297k
18Maverick ViñalesSPAAprilia Racing (RS-GP23)+0.986s8/8298k
19Marc MarquezSPARepsol Honda (RC213V)+1.288s2/2297k
20Jonas FolgerGERTech3 GASGAS (RC16)+1.755s4/7293k

* Rookie

Fastest practice time:
Marco Bezzecchi ITA Ducati 1m 20.271s (FP2)

Official Sachsenring MotoGP records:
Best lap:
Francesco Bagnaia ITA Ducati 1m 19.765s (2022)
Fastest race lap:
Marc Marquez SPA Honda 1m 21.228s (2019)

Marco Bezzecchi leads sprint winner Jorge Martin in warm-up for the 2023 German MotoGP at Sachsenring.

Marc Marquez suffered his fifth fall of the weekend, this time a painful highside at Turn 7, from which he was slow to walk away and then sat on the service road before eventually giving a thumbs up.

Germany was the nadir of Francesco Bagnaia's 2022 world championship season, slipping 91 points from Fabio Quartararo after an early fall before fighting back to take the title in the second half of the year. Bagnaia returns with a 21-point lead over Marco Bezzecchi.

Sachsenring is Marc Marquez’s most successful circuit, with eleven wins at the German Grand Prix, including eight in the MotoGP class. Absent last season due to arm surgery, when Quartararo took victory, Marquez hasn’t been beaten at the tight and twisty anti-clockwise circuit since 2009 in 125cc.

Marquez is riding alone at Repsol Honda with team-mate Joan Mir sidelined by a hand injury at Mugello last weekend. LCR Honda's Alex Rins is also absent after fracturing his right tibia and fibula in Italy. The COTA winner won't be fit to return until after the summer break. Rins' team-mate Takaaki Nakagami has been handed a Kalex chassis for the first time this weekend.

GASGAS Tech3’s Pol Espargaro has abandoned a planned return in Germany and is again replaced by KTM test rider Jonas Folger, meaning a home rider will be taking part in the premier class. Espargaro is also thought unlikely to be fit for next weekend's Assen round.

Older brother Aleix, diagnosed with two broken bones in his right heel after struggling with bicycle injuries throughout the Mugello weekend, limped away from a crash at turn one after just ten minutes.