10:59
Enea Bastianini mirrors Tech3 team-mate Vinales by ๊posting his best lap of the day. Bastian𒁃ini claims 15th at the end of a tricky pre-season for the Ducati race winner.
Marc Marquez, Luca Marini, 2025 Buriram MotoGP Test
2025 Official Buriram MotoGP Test - Day 2 as it happened
Recap Thursday’s second and final day of the 2025 Official Buriram MotoGP test.
The final day of 2025 MotoGP𒐪 pre-season testing began on Thursday morning at Buriram in Thailand.
New factory Ducati signing Marc Marquez was fastest by 0.465s over younger brother Alex on day one, when the Bo💛logna factory confirmed it is mulling over sticking with the GP24 engine for the factory-specᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ GP25s this season.
Alex has been fastest on the GP24 at the two previous tests, in Barcelona and Sepang, and will be out to make it a clean sweep ofܫ winter🌱 P1s for Gresini today.
VR46’s Franco Morbidelli complete🐟d an all-Ducati top three on Wednesday ahead of Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi, KTM’s Pedro Acosta and the Hondas of Luca Marini and Johann Zarco.
Jack Miller was the t🦹op Yamaha in tenth as the Japanese factory made 🌠a humbler start to Buriram compared to its impressive showing at Sepang.
Absent this week are Aprilia’s reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin and VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio who were both injured at Sepang. Raul Fernandez, who also requiredꦅ surgery after a first day spill in Malaysia, is back for Trackhouse.
Testing takes place from 10am to 6pm, af💞ter which the next MotoGP track action will be opening practice for the Thai Grand Prix on F🔜ebruary 28.
13 Feb 2025
10:56
5mins of pre-season testing remaining, 5 riders still on track: Fabio Quartara𒐪ro, Raul Fernandez, Luca Marini, Enea Bastianini and 🐽Miguel Oliveira.
10:52
Some late progress f🐬rom Maverick Vinales who puts his Tech3 KTM into 9th on the combined tiไmesheets.
10:51
Meanwhile, it's be𝓰en a strong final afternoon for Honda's Joan Mir, who was not only very quick in his Sprint simulation - second only to Bezzecchi - but is also second to the Aprilia rider on the Session 2 timesheets.
On combined times for the day, Mir is 6th, 0.5🐓44s from Marc Marquez.
10:35
After earlier impressing with his Sprint simulation, Marco Bezzecchi moves up to third𒅌 on the timesheets, 0.205s from leader Marc Marquez.
25mins of testing to go.
10:17
Pedro Acosta long run, 22 laps, 💃average 1m 31.016s.
In other words, almost an exact match for Alex Marquez but a long way of🔜f Marc Marquez.
Acosta's KTM team-mate ✃Brad Binder did 24 laps with an average of 1m 31.5🦩45s.
10:13
Update from Alex Marquez💧 ♈who said he had "a few problems" in his race simulation but decided to keep going, which explains the size of the (0.7s a lap) gap to brother Marc.
Front tyre temp and pressure plus a "human" electronic issue🦂 were Aleꦏx's issues.
09:58
Approaching 5pm and there's no major changes for outright best laps (Fabio Quartararo is♊ up to 7th) but wꦺe should have some more long run data shortly.
09:36
Stand outs from the race sims so far: Marc ওMarquez for scorching speed and consistency over a 'GP' run of 23 laps,🐭 Marco Bezzecchi for the fastest Sprint, and a surprise Sprint pace from Joan Mir.
09:33
Some long-run averages (grouped over similar distances✅). Buriram Sprint distance is 13 laps, Grand Prix distance is 26 laps:
Marc Marquez (23 laps) average = 1m 30.378s
Alex Marquez (23 laps) average = 1m 31.071s
Franco Morbidelli (18 laps) average = 1m 31.019s
Johann Zarco (20 laps) average = 1m 31.570s
Somkiat Chantra (19 laps) average = 1m 32.009s
Marco Bezzecchi (13 laps) average = 1m 30.093s
Joan Mir (11 laps) average = 1m 30.282s
Fabio Quartararo (12 laps) average = 1m 30.361s
Jack Miller (13 laps) average = 1m 30.776s*
Brad Binder (12 laps) average = 1m 31.077s
Luca Marini (13 laps) average = 1m 31.315s
*If one slow lap to start (1m 32s) is removed, if slow lap kept in Miller's average =ﷺ 1m 30.87🔜1s.
09:14
Here it is.
Marc Marquez's official grand prix simulation lap by lap, and un🐭der it Alex Marquez's (the only other rider to go the distance so far today).
We've calculated the aver🅘ages, Marc was 0.7s a lap faster than Alex over the same 23 flying laps in a row.
Marc Marquez:
1'30.560
1'30.116
1'30.004
1'29.973
1'30.099
1'30.034
1'29.811
1'30.134
1'30.093
1'29.953
1'30.311
1'30.142
1'30.303
1'30.426
1'30.763
1'30.734
1'30.647
1'30.605
1'30.837
1'30.671
1'30.733
1'30.994
1'30.740
Average = 1m 30.378s
Alex Marquez:
1'31.027
1'30.668
1'30.203
1'30.320
1'30.664
1'30.636
1'30.494
1'30.764
1'31.049
1'30.892
1'31.115
1'30.985
1'30.957
1'31.224
1'31.260
1'31.390
1'31.413
1'31.452
1'31.858
1'31.475
1'31.527
1'31.553
1'31.698
Average = 1m 31.071s
09:10
4pm Results - Buriram MotoGP Test Results, Day 2
No ꦺbig changes as riders are working on long runs at the mome🅺nt.
09:08
That's it. Marc Marquez pits 🐷afte꧑r 25 laps (counting out and in laps).
We'll get the official lap by lap later b𝓰ut from what we saw 'live' that looked ♒very fast.
In summary: Marquez's best lap on lap 8 of 25 was a 1m 29.811s. That was beaten only by Marco Bezzecchi with a 1m 29💎.632s but on lap 3 of a 15-lap Sprint sim.
Marquez looked to be running 1m 30s right to the end ofꦕ his long run.
09:03
To put Marc Marquez's pace into pe🗹rspective this was his own Spri♕nt race performance in October's event.
In othꦑer w🍨ords, after 24 laps he's still quicker than his pace after 12 laps on the GP23.
Marc Marquez: 2024 Buriram Sprint
1'32.500
1'30.016
1'29.831
1'30.077
1'29.820
1'29.980
1'30.321
1'29.989
1'30.345
1'30.255
1'30.743
1'31.121
1'31.535
09:01
Marc Marquez's time rises to a 1m 30.994s🍨 on lap 23. He keep🐼s going...
08:59
Marc Marquez's 22nd lap is a 1m 30.733s.
Again, from our earlier update: "It looks like we'l🌜l see a full grand p✱rix distance from Alex Marquez, who is holding mid 1m 31s pace and now on his 23rd lap."
08:58
To recap, the Marqꩵuez brothers are the only riders to have done more than 20 laps during the long runs this afternoon.
08:56
This is quite a display by Marc Marquez, whose 20th lap 𒆙is a 1m 30.837s.
For comparison, here is our earlier update on hisꩵ brother's long run: "Alex Marquez is no𒈔w on lap 20, his last lap was a 1m 31.452s."
08:52
It's looking more♈ and more like a G✤rand Prix simulation from Marc Marquez.
He's now on lap 1💮8, 𒁃with his last lap a 1m 30.734s.
08:49
The ♔next few laps will show if Marc Marquez is doing a Sprint simulation or a Grand Prix simulation.
If Marc is doing a Grand Prix simulation the others will be worried, because his best lap is slower only than Bezzecchi (Sprint simulation) and 0.4s faster t♚han brother Alex, who is the only rider to do a GP distance so far this afternoon.
Marc is now on lap 16...
08:44
Marc Marquez's 12th lap is a 1m 30.3s, again underli🥃ning Bezzecchi's fast pace (assuming Marquez is also doing a Sprint𝓀 rather than a full Grand Prix distance).
08:43
Marc Marquez's 11th lap is a 1m 29.953s, so he looks to be slig꧒htly quicker than Bezzecchi at the sam💙e stage, who was running low 1m 30s.
The official lap-by-lap will confirm late✅r, but there's not much between them at the moment.
08:40
Alex Marquez finally pits after 25 laps, a full Grand Prix distance if you remove the standing start. Good effort from🌼 the Gresini rider in the baking heat.
Jack♌ Miller looks to have done 19 laps before pitting.
Fabio Quartararo pits after 14 laps.
