Enea Bastianini marked himself down as the man to beat at the MotoGP with a sparkling record lap in practice on Friday, raising his hopes of closing the gap

The factory Ducati rider comes to this weekend’s race at Mandalika off the back of his second win of the season, which puts him just 59 points back of championship leader Jorge Martin. On Friday in Indonesia, Bastianini smashed the previous lap record with a 1m29.630s to lead practice overall.

Enea Bastianini smashed together a new lap record around the Mandalika International Circuit in the second Friday MotoGP practice. Despite

Italian rider Franco Morbidelli topped the times in Friday morning's free practice session at the Indonesia MotoGP, with his teammate and championship leader Jorge Martin back in third. Martin, 26, extended his lead over Ducati's Bagnaia last weekend after the Italian crashed out of the Emilia-Romagna MotoGP.

Ducati’s Enea Bastianini topped a tight second practice at the MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix with a new lap record ahead of championship leader Jorge Martin. Having ended last weekend’s Emilia Romagna GP with his second grand prix victory of the season, Bastianini has kept himself in the championship picture coming to Mandalika.

Enea Bastianini picked up from where he left off in Misano less than a week ago as he topped the timesheets in Mandalika during Friday Practice for the Indonesian Grand Prix courtesy of a scintillating new lap record with just under ten minutes of the session remaining.