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 marked himself down as the man to beat at the Indonesia MotoGP with a sparkling record lap in practice on Friday, raising his hopes of closing the gap on championship leader Jorge Martin.

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.

And on a sweltering Friday in Indonesia, Bastianini led the way with a new lap record of 1m29.630s to lead points leader Martin (Pramac Ducati) by just 0.040s. Franco Morbidelli -