The MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix is the fourth round of the 2024 season and marks the beginning of the European portion of the calendar. Rain arrived on Saturday morning, meaning wet conditions for both FP2 and qualifying.

Qualifying

Marc Marquez achieved his first Ducati pole position in the wet at Jerez, marking a significant milestone in his first season away from HRC.

Marquez' 1:46.773 was the only sub-1:47 of the session from any rider, and put him just under three-tenths-of-a-second ahead of Marco Bezzecchi in second, while Jorge Martin was a further three tenths back in third place.

Brad Binder set the trend for the Q2 by taking a medium-compound rear tyre on his first run. He ended that first run fastest, beating everyone else who had chosen soft-compound rears. Almost everyone chose mediums on the second run, and that erased Binder's early-session advantage - he qualified fourth. Fabio Di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez join Binder on the second row.

Francesco Bagnaia is still without a front row in 2024 after qualifying seventh in Spain, ahead of Franco Morbidelli and Enea Bastianini who make it an all-Ducati third row.

Pedro Acosta looked set for pole at one point, but crashed at the final corner. He remounted and qualified 10th, ahead of the two Aprilias of Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro who both stuck with soft-compound wets for their second run.

Full MotoGP qualifying results from Spain are below.

FP2

Marc Marquez topped a wet FP2 for MotoGP at the Spanish Grand Prix, just under a tenth ahead of fellow satellite Ducati rider Fabio Di Giannantonio.

Francesco Bagnaia was third-fastest on the factory Ducati to make it a 1-2-3 for the Bologna brand, while Raul Fernandez, Maverick Vinales, and Miguel Oliveira made up an Aprilia 4-5-6. Pedro Acosta was the best KTM rider in seventh, ahead of Franco Morbidelli, Alex Marquez, and Aleix Espargaro who completed the top 10.

Full MotoGP results from FP2 in Spain are below.

Practice

Francesco Bagnaia topped MotoGP Practice in Spain with a 1:36.025, meaning the Italian goes to sleep in Andalusia tonight as the new lap record holder at the historic Spanish track.

It was a late lap from Bagnaia to see him top the times on Friday in Jerez, the Italian pulling particularly dramatic shapes through the final corner on his best lap of the session. This was in contrast to the wheels-in-line Maverick Vinales, who seemingly made all of his lap time in the two high-speed right handers at the end of the lap, but was out-done by Bagnaia in the end.

Behind Vinales was Marc Marquez, who was especially bad in sector four, while Marco Bezzecchi was helped to his fourth-fastest time by a tow from Bagnaia. Pedro Acosta similarly benefited in Bagnaia's wake, and was sixth to ensure that KTM had some representation in Q2. Brad Binder was the closest of the other four RC16 riders to make it into the top 10, but he crashed at turn seven on what would have been his best lap and finished 11th.

Aleix Espargaro, Enea Bastianini, Fabio Di Giannantonio, and Alex Marquez completed the top 10, meaning the only Ducati rider to miss Q2 was Franco Morbidelli.

No Japanese bikes finished in the top 10; the best of those was Alex Rins in 15th for Yamaha, while Takaaki Nakagami was the best Honda rider in 16th.

Full MotoGP results from Practice in Spain are below.

FP1

First practice in Jerez was topped by Alex Marquez, who held a 0.507-second advantage over his teammate, Marc Marquez.

The #73 was the only rider in the 1:36s in FP1, and only the top 10 were able to remain within one second of his best pace.

That top 10 included both Aprilia riders, with Maverick Vinales third ahead of Aleix Espargaro in fifth, while Franco Morbidelli was the best Ducati GP24 rider in fifth.

Marco Bezzecchi was sixth, ahead of KTM wildcard Dani Pedrosa, the #26 being setting the fastest time of all five RC16 riders on Friday morning, although Brad Binder was only 0.005 seconds slower in eighth. Jorge Martin was ninth, ahead of Pedro Acosta who rounded out the top 10.

Both factory Ducati riders, Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini, were outside of the top 10 in 12th and 13th, respectively.

Full MotoGP FP1 times from Spain are below.