The Pramac Ducati rider comes into the Buriram occasion 27 factors adrift of manufacturing facility Ducati counterpart Francesco Bagnaia after shedding the victory in Australia final week on the ultimate lap.
With below half a second protecting the highest 18, Martin emerged as quickest of all with a closing flying effort of 1m29.826s.
Nevertheless, he crashed seconds later on the Flip 3 right-handed hairpin, however he walked away unscathed.
The Aprilia duo of Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro accomplished the highest three, with Australian GP winner Johann Zarco fourth from VR46 pairing Luca Marini and final yr’s poleman Marco Bezzecchi.
Bagnaia arrested his current run of Friday Q2 exits and ended Friday seventh, guaranteeing a direct passage into the pole shootout session in qualifying on Saturday.
The championship chief’s periods bought off to a rocky begin on Friday afternoon as some brake points pressured him to desert his primary bike early on.
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Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Workforce
As this was happening, Gresini’s Fabio Di Giannantonio – now favourite to replace Marc Marquez at Honda in 2024 – set the preliminary tempo with a 1m30.945s, earlier than Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo went prime with a 1m30.835s.
Alex Marquez put Gresini again on prime moments later with a 1m30.728s, which might stand because the benchmark till Vinales edged clear on his Aprilia with a 1m30.613s 25 minutes into the session.
With just below 13 minutes of the hour-long session to go, the sphere started switching to the medium rear tyre (the softest possibility in Michelin’s vary in Thailand).
KTM’s Brad Binder breached the highest of the timesheets with a 1m30.247s on his recent medium rear, earlier than enhancing on his follow-up tour to a 1m30.121s.
Vinales dipped beneath the 1m30s bracket with 10 minutes to go on a 1m29.924s, nevertheless it wouldn’t be sufficient to maintain him prime of the order.
With two minutes remaining, Martin snatched first away from Vinales with a 1m29.826s, earlier than dumping his Pramac Ducati at Flip 3 as he steamed into the nook a bit too scorching.
Trailing the Aprilia duo, Zarco, the VR46 pair and Bagnaia got here Quartararo on the Yamaha, with Binder ninth on the chequered flag.
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Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Manufacturing facility Racing
The ultimate direct Q2 spot went to Tech3 GasGas’s Augusto Fernandez, who denied Honda’s Marc Marquez by 0.065s.
Marquez was concerned in an odd incident about midway by means of the session when he was hit by a pit entry marker kicked up by Martin. Although clearly in some discomfort, Marquez suffered no severe hurt.
Franco Morbidelli was unable to hitch his Yamaha team-mate Quartararo in Q2 in twelfth forward of KTM’s Jack Miller and Di Giannantonio, whereas Pol Espargaro (Tech3) headed the sister manufacturing facility Honda of Joan Mir in fifteenth.
Alex Marquez was 18th ultimately, however solely 0.541s off the tempo, highlighting the closeness of the sphere in Thailand.
MotoGP Thailand GP – FP2 outcomes