The reigning world champion topped proceedings on Monday on the Losail Worldwide Circuit and cemented this on day two within the desert.
Bagnaia clocked the primary ever sub 1m51s lap of the Qatar Grand Prix venue, posting a 1m50.952s to guide team-mate Enea Bastianini by 0.120 seconds.
Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro capped off a stable pre-season for himself on the brand new RS-GP in third forward of Gresini’s Marc Marquez, who suffered a crash late within the session.
The day started very similar to Monday, with few taking to the circuit within the opening hour whereas situations had been at their least optimum.
LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami led the way in which after hour one with a 1m54.978s, earlier than Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo took over with a 1m54.122s on the finish of hour two.
After three hours of operating, Bagnaia had discovered his solution to the highest of the order with a 1m52.575s, earlier than Bastianini took over with a 1m52.136s.
Through the fifth hour of operating, Bagnaia lit up the timing screens and smashed the outright lap file with a 1m50.952s.
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Group
Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Pictures
He did so on his twenty ninth lap, and would keep on engaged on race set-up via to the top of the day having tallied up a complete of 52 excursions.
The Ducati duo wouldn’t be felled from their positions on the prime of the order because the chequered flag got here out on the 2024 pre-season.
Espargaro proved their closest challengers, albeit 0.308s off the tempo.
Marc Marquez suffered a technical points earlier within the day and a fall late on at Flip 4, however was simply 0.383s off the perfect tempo on his 2023-spec Ducati as his adaptation to the bike continued.
Raul Fernandez was a formidable fifth on the Trackhouse Racing-run 2023 Aprilia, with Maverick Vinales sixth on the manufacturing unit RS-GP.
Jorge Martin appeared to endure a fall late within the day on his Pramac Ducati and was seventh ultimately forward of VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio, KTM’s Brad Binder and Marco Bezzecchi on the sister VR46 Ducati.
Aleix Espargaro, Aprilia Racing Group
Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Pictures
Quartararo was the main Yamaha in 14th, with team-mate Rins pushed to sixteenth by Tech3 GasGas rookie Pedro Acosta.
| Pos | Rider | Bike | Time | Hole | Laps |
| 1 | F.Bagnaia | Ducati | 1’50.952 | 52 | |
| 2 | Enea Bastianini | Ducati | 1’51.072 | 0.120 | 49 |
| 3 | Aleix Espargaró | Aprilia | 1’51.260 | 0.308 | 45 |
| 4 | Marc Márquez | Ducati | 1’51.335 | 0.383 | 42 |
| 5 | Raúl Fernández | Aprilia | 1’51.341 | 0.389 | 56 |
| 6 | Maverick Viñales | Aprilia | 1’51.387 | 0.435 | 60 |
| 7 | Jorge Martín | Ducati | 1’51.466 | 0.514 | 50 |
| 8 | F.Di Giannantonio | Ducati | 1’51.489 | 0.537 | 60 |
| 9 | Brad Binder | KTM | 1’51.583 | 0.631 | 55 |
| 10 | Marco Bezzecchi | Ducati | 1’51.678 | 0.726 | 49 |
| 11 | Jack Miller | KTM | 1’51.720 | 0.768 | 57 |
| 12 | Miguel Oliveira | Aprilia | 1’51.836 | 0.884 | 65 |
| 13 | Álex Márquez | Ducati | 1’51.944 | 0.992 | 62 |
| 14 | Fabio Quartararo | Yamaha | 1’51.965 | 1.013 | 57 |
| 15 | Pedro Acosta | KTM | 1’52.046 | 1.094 | 72 |
| 16 | Alex Rins | Yamaha | 1’52.103 | 1.151 | 60 |
| 17 | Johann Zarco | Honda | 1’52.162 | 1.210 | 52 |
| 18 | Takaaki Nakagami | Honda | 1’52.384 | 1.432 | 53 |
| 19 | Joan Mir | Honda | 1’52.457 | 1.505 | 32 |
| 20 | Luca Marini | Honda | 1’52.677 | 1.725 | 60 |
| 21 | A.Fernández | KTM | 1’52.770 | 1.818 | 83 |
| 22 | Cal Crutchlow | Yamaha | 1’53.012 | 2.060 | 59 |
| 23 | Michele Pirro | Ducati | 1’53.655 | 2.703 | 67 |
| 24 | Lorenzo Savadori | Aprilia | 2’01.400 | 10.448 | 12 |
Joan Mir was the main manufacturing unit crew Honda rider in nineteenth in a troublesome day for the Spaniard, as he contended with sickness earlier than struggling a late fall.
The MotoGP paddock will reassemble in Qatar on the weekend of 8-10 March for the opening spherical of the 2024 season.
