Aleix Espargaró has been the fastest during free practice 1 of MotoGP at Barcelona-Catalunya circuit for the Catalan GP. Lorenzo finished second after led all the session and Iannone was third.
For a 23th consecutive year, the premier class has started his first free practice session at Barcelona-Catalunya circuit. A circuit, where the pole position isn’t very important, because the Catalan track, offers a good opportunities for overtaking with these bikes.
The heat in Montmeló has been the detonating of the session with fairly high temperatures for June moment. Jorge Lorenzo has been who started leading the session, meanwhile the Honda’s had a unobsrtuctive paper, riding on 5th and 6th place.
At the end of the session the bikers had tried to improve his lap times and this cause some went off from Pol Espargaró and Andrea Iannone at turn 4 and 10, respectively. The local biker, Aleix Espargaró was the only one who beat the Lorenzo’s time with 7 tenths, thanks to his soft rear tyre.
Resultats:
| Pos. | Nº | Rider | Team | Motorbike | Diff | Gap | |
| 1 | 41 | Aleix ESPARGARO | SPA | NGM Forward Racing | Forward Yamaha | ||
| 2 | 99 | Jorge LORENZO | SPA | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | + 00,729 | + 00,729 |
| 3 | 29 | Andrea IANNONE | ITA | Pramac Racing | Ducati | + 00,010 | + 00,739 |
| 4 | 46 | Valentino ROSSI | ITA | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | + 00,012 | + 00,751 |
| 5 | 6 | Stefan BRADL | GER | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | + 00,197 | + 00,948 |
| 6 | 26 | Dani PEDROSA | SPA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | + 00,044 | + 00,992 |
| 7 | 93 | Marc MARQUEZ | SPA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | + 00,078 | + 01,070 |
| 8 | 19 | Alvaro BAUTISTA | SPA | GO&FUN Honda Gresini | Honda | + 00,091 | + 01,161 |
| 9 | 68 | Yonny HERNANDEZ | COL | Energy T.I. Pramac Racing | Ducati | + 00,127 | + 01,288 |
| 10 | 44 | Pol ESPARGARO | SPA | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | + 00,041 | + 01,329 |
| 11 | 4 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | ITA | Ducati Team | Ducati | + 00,455 | + 01,784 |
| 12 | 51 | Michele PIRRO | ITA | Ducati Team | Ducati | + 00,188 | + 01,972 |
| 13 | 38 | Bradley SMITH | GBR | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | + 00,074 | + 02,046 |
| 14 | 17 | Karel ABRAHAM | CZE | Cardion AB Motoracing | Honda | + 00,187 | + 02,233 |
| 15 | 35 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | GBR | Ducati Team | Ducati | + 00,007 | + 02,240 |
| 16 | 45 | Scott REDDING | GBR | GO&FUN Honda Gresini | Honda | + 00,076 | + 02,316 |
| 17 | 69 | Nicky HAYDEN | USA | Drive M7 Aspar | Honda | + 00,020 | + 02,336 |
| 18 | 5 | Colin EDWARDS | USA | NGM Forward Racing | Forward Yamaha | + 00,012 | + 02,348 |
| 19 | 8 | Hector BARBERA | SPA | Avintia Racing | Avintia | + 00,166 | + 02,514 |
| 20 | 70 | Michael LAVERTY | GBR | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | + 00,264 | + 02,778 |
| 21 | 7 | Hiroshi AOYAMA | JPN | Drive M7 Aspar | Honda | + 00,021 | + 02,799 |
| 22 | 23 | Broc PARKES | AUS | Paul Bird Motorsport | PBM | + 00,210 | + 03,009 |
| 23 | 63 | Mike DI MEGLIO | FRA | Avintia Racing | Avintia | + 01,211 | + 04,220 |
| 24 | 84 | Michel FABRIZIO | ITA | Octo IodaRacing Team | ART | + 01,405 | + 05,625 |