Ducati has not been dethroned all through the 5 days of official testing this winter, with its riders taking high honours in Malaysia and Portugal.
Bagnaia was first out on observe on Sunday on his manufacturing unit group Ducati and would finish the day 0.296s away from the sector with a brand new unofficial lap report of 1m37.968s.
Although the world champion was first on observe on Sunday morning, the opening hour was topped by Pramac counterpart Jorge Martin.
The Spaniard would crash simply moments into hour two, nonetheless, however suffered no ill-effects from the tumble and re-established himself on the high of the pile with a 1m38.717s.
Come the top of hour three, Bagnaia took cost with a 1m38.154s which might stand because the benchmark till the ultimate 50 minutes of the session, when he fired in a 1m37.968s on recent tender rubber.
With most wrapping up effectively earlier than the chequered flag, Bagnaia went unchallenged by to the chequered flag to start the primary steps of his title defence in positive type on a motorbike (alongside the Aprilia) he believes is “unbeatable” in the intervening time.
Pramac’s Johann Zarco made a late play for second with a 1m38.264s on his GP23, however was nonetheless 0.296s away from his stablemate.
Shadowing Zarco by 0.038s got here fellow Frenchman Fabio Quartararo, who rounded out the highest three to provide his Yamaha group some hope to cling onto as the brand new season dawns.
Having felt after Saturday’s session that Yamaha “is not going to be prepared” for the primary spherical of 2023 as he struggled massively on the M1, the Japanese marque made a breakthrough on Sunday by reverting to 2022 settings.
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Manufacturing facility Racing
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This allowed Quartararo to provide a 1m38.302s, a lap some 1.3s faster than he managed on Saturday, to finish up third total.
Yamaha additionally debuted its Method 1-style rear wing on Sunday, although Quartararo advised the media that the large appendage didn’t appear to make a lot distinction and was unlikely to be raced proper now.
Luca Marini in fourth led his VR46 Ducati team-mate Marco Bezzecchi in fifth, with Enea Bastianini sixth on the sister manufacturing unit Ducati.
Alex Marquez had two crashes on Sunday however was nonetheless seventh-fastest on his Gresini Ducati forward of Martin, KTM’s Brad Binder and Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro – who admitted he could must bear surgical procedure this week because of a fibrosis situation in his arm.
Miguel Oliveira was eleventh on the RNF Aprilia forward of Maverick Vinales on the manufacturing unit RS-GP, with Joan Mir the quickest of the Hondas in thirteenth forward of team-mate Marc Marquez and LCR’s Alex Rins.
Gresini sophomore Fabio Di Giannantonio was unable to trip on Sunday because of a concussion he suffered in a crash on Saturday, with the Gresini rider blaming Algarve’s ‘wall-like’ gravel for his injury.
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