Maverick Vinales and Alex Marquez traded the quickest time within the opening quarter of the session, the Gresini rider setting the early tempo on a 1m32.030s earlier than Vinales moved the goalposts with a time of 1m31.657s.
Marquez struck again with a 1m31.486s simply after the 15 minute mark, earlier than Vinales went 0.002s faster to grab the highest spot once more.
The 28-year-old’s time of 1m31.484s remained unbeaten till the ultimate 10 minutes of the session, when his Aprilia team-mate Espargaro improved to a 1m31.171s to steer the sector by three tenths of a second.
Nevertheless, Aprilia wouldn’t finish the session on high, after Martin broke the 1m31s barrier with simply 5 minutes left on the clock to steal the timelight for Pramac
Martin’s lap of 1m30.520s put him 0.238s on the entrance, after Vinales made a late enchancment to 1m30.758s in an unsuccessful bid to reclaim the highest spot.
Pol Espargaro jumped to 3rd with a formidable 1m31.012s effort on his Tech3 KTM, leaving his brother Aleix fourth within the ultimate order.
Fifth place went to Franco Morbidelli on the quickest of the 2 Yamahas, whereas Augusto Fernandez backed up the tempo of his extra skilled team-mate Espargaro with a strong sixth-place end.
Fabio di Giannantonio, who has been linked with a transfer to Repsol Honda in 2024, was seventh for Gresini with a time equivalent to RNF Aprilia rider Raul Fernandez.
Di Giannantonio’s team-mate Marquez failed to enhance on his early-session flier and slipped to ninth within the ultimate order, 0.966s in arrears of Martin.
The highest 10 was accomplished by Bagnaia, who arrived in Thailand 29 factors forward of his chief championship rival Martin.
Regardless of discovering some extra time within the ultimate 5 minutes of apply, Bagnaia was solely the fourth-quickest Ducati within the session as he ended up 0.987s down on Martin with a finest effort of 1m31.507s.
He was adopted by the LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami on the highest Honda and the second Yamaha of 2021 champion Fabio Quartararo.
The manufacturing unit KTM staff had a low key session as each Jack Miller and Brad Binder completed over a second down in thirteenth and 14th respectively, whereas VR46 duo Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi had been additionally off the tempo in fifteenth and sixteenth locations.
Marc Marquez was a distant 18th on the manufacturing unit Honda, two locations forward of team-mate Joan Mir.
No crashes had been recorded throughout quarter-hour of apply, though a lot of rider had small moments exiting corners.
MotoGP Thailand GP – FP1 outcomes: