Ai Ogura Tops Brno Practice as Lap Record Falls
NXTbets Pro | Published On: June 22, 2026
Ogura leads practice
Ai Ogura set the pace in Friday practice at Automotodrom Brno with a 1:51.735 lap, and the session turned into a sharp fight at the front as the old lap record fell. Seven riders beat the previous benchmark during the run, and the top end of the order stayed packed tight from the first names through the final spots inside the top 10. Marco Bezzecchi ended second and Fabio Di Giannantonio took third, giving the session a strong mix of pace from riders who stayed close to Ogura’s time. The result also showed how little room the field had to work with. Nineteen riders finished within one second of each other, a clear sign that Brno produced a condensed practice where every clean lap mattered. That kind of spread kept the session competitive across the board and left little separation between the leaders and the riders just behind them. Ogura’s lap stood out as the best of the group, but the margin across the session showed that the chase group never drifted far away. Bezzecchi and Di Giannantonio backed up the front of the order, and the pace through the session made the Brno practice run one of the tighter ones on the calendar so far.
Practice field stays tight
The depth behind the top three matched the pace at the front. Pedro Acosta finished fourth in Friday practice, Jack Miller came home fifth and Ogura, after setting the fastest lap, still ended up part of a crowded lead pack in the classification. The rest of the top 10 kept the pressure on as Diogo Moreira placed seventh, Raul Fernandez took eighth, Enea Bastianini finished ninth and Fabio Quartararo rounded out the group in 10th. That spread across the top 10 reinforced how close the Brno session ran from one rider to the next. Fast laps came from a broad mix of factories and styles, and the order changed enough to keep the session moving without a clear breakaway beyond Ogura’s headline lap. The fact that seven riders broke the old lap record gives the session extra weight, since the benchmark did not stay in place for long once the track got moving. Even with the record falling, the field stayed compressed. The 19-rider spread of less than one second left the practice sheet stacked from the top through the middle, which gave the session the look of a full-speed scramble rather than a single-rider display. Brno delivered pace, depth and a tight classification, with Ogura’s 1:51.735 sitting at the top of a group that kept the pressure high all session.
Aldeguer tops warm-up
Fermin Aldeguer then went fastest in the MotoGP Czech Grand Prix warm-up at Brno, giving the session a different name at the top but the same sense of speed through the field. Marc Marquez was the only other rider besides Aldeguer to record a lap in the 1:52 range, which separated the pair from the rest of the warm-up list. Fabio Di Giannantonio followed in third, with Pedro Acosta fourth and Jack Miller fifth, keeping several of the same riders from Friday practice near the front again. Ai Ogura, who led practice, finished sixth in warm-up. Diogo Moreira placed seventh, Raul Fernandez finished eighth, Enea Bastianini was ninth and Fabio Quartararo completed the top 10 in 10th. The order put a different rider on top, but the front of the warm-up still featured many of the same names that stayed near the front on Friday. Aldeguer’s best lap gave him the lead in the final run before the main action, and Marquez’s place as the only other rider in the 1:52 bracket underlined the gap back to the rest of the field in that session. The top 10 remained crowded with familiar names, and the Brno weekend continued to produce close, fast running with little separation once the laps started to count.
