Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose
Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose
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2025 Thai MotoGP, Buriram: Friday Practice as it happened

Recap Friday practice for the season-opening 2025 Thai MotoGP round at Buriram.

The 2025 MotoGP season begins with a pair of Friday practice sessions at B⭕uriram, the second of which will decide the top ten for direct Qualifying 2 access.

Reigning world champion Jorge Martin remains absent after suffering f🅷urther hand injuries in training earlier this wee🔯k and is replaced by Aprilia test rider Lorenzo Savadori.

Bu💟t Fabio di Giannantonio - also injured on day one of 🔥the Sepang test - is back for VR46.

Marc Marquez was fastest at the recent Buriram pre-season♉ test, where he also delivered a peerless race simulation. The new Ducati Lenovo rider topped the timesheets ahead of brother Alex Marquez (Gresini), Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) and Pedro Acosta (KTM).

Last year’s title runner-up F🐬rancesco Bagnaia was fifth, as the factory Ducati team committed to keeping the GP24 engine, followed by the top Honda of Joan Mir with Fabio Quartararo in eighth f♏or Yamaha.

FP1 takes place from 10:45 to 11:30am local time with afternoon practice f♛ro꧅m 3-4pm.

09:03

So, it's Alex Marquez from Marc Marquez at the top of Practi𝓰ce and Acosta third♑.

Bezzecchi takes fourth, ahead of M𒅌orbidelli, Mir, Fern🎃andez, Quartararo, Ogura, and Zarco.

Vinales, Binder, and♏ most notably Bagnaia all miss out and will have to contend with Q1 tomorrow morning.

09:02

Marc Marquez has just 💫been bumped to second at the death there by his brother, Alex, who tops Practice with a 1:29.020.

09:01

Bagnaia on another lap now but it's gone away in the third sector tha💛nks to Franco Morbidelli who w🍨as - not for the first time - cruising on the line.

08:59

Bagn𒆙aia now back to 11th thanks to an Ogura lap that put the rookie eighth.

08:59

Bagnaia has h🐻ad his lap deleted for yellow flags and is back to 10th. Bezz𒅌ecchi meanwhile has crashed at turn three.

08:58

Bagnaia up to seventh with his first lap, almost 0.3s off the top time ༺of🔯 Marquez, though.

08:57

According to the timing screens, Ba🐻gnaia is ou𝐆t for his final time attack on a 3-lap-old soft tyre.

08:56

Bezzecchi up to second plܫace, now, and Bagnaia is now down to 10th and on the Q2 bu🐼bble.

08:55

Second time attacks beginning now.

Quartararo up to third with the🌞 first lap on his sec💫ond tyre, but he's bumped to fourth as Morbidelli goes second.

08:53

Bagnaia was on a personal best at the third sector on his second flying lap on his first tyre but he's pitted. He'💝s ninth ahead of the final time attacꦰks. 

Just under seven minutes to go.

08:52

Not a brilliant first l♑ap from Bagnaia - only 🍸ninth and 0.5s off the pace.

08:51

Og🦩ura into the top 10 in ninth, and now Bagnaia is deliveri𓄧ng his first time attack.

08:50

Marquez extends his ad🥀vantage at the top with a 29🌺.197, then Alex Marquez goes up to second with a 29.400.

08:48

Marquez's first t🐻ime attack takes him🐷 back to the top, a 1:29.374 puts him clear by 0.124s over Acosta.

08:47

Acosta finally 𓃲beats Zarco's time with a 1:29.509 and goes to the top and Morbidelli goes second.

08:47

Bra🧸d Binde rup to second with his first time attack lap. 1:29.804 for the KTM rider, but faster laps coming behind.

Quartararo third, and Acosta is on the way too.

08:43

Marini in🅠to the 1:29s with his latest lap. Looks like a time attack with a fresh soft tyre but he's behind Marquez, who hasn't done a hot lap yet.

08:39

Marquez done with that run now, still only four laps on that tyre. He did run wid♛e at turn four, so perhaps something he wants to change.

08:38

Another 29.9 for Marquez. It's𓄧 a good tenth or two better than we've seen in terms 🍬of race pace from anyone else.

08:36

Marc Marquez now out on a fresh hard compound rear tyre and going rather ♍quickly. Just went away at the end of the lap there for Marquez but it's still a 1:29.9; but in the meantime Johann Zarco goes fastest on a 1:29.624.

08:32

Just under half-an-hour to go in Practice now, and it's still Marquez who leads. Bagnaia and Acosta both lapping in the l♑ow-1:30s at the moment, but Acosta is running with the hard rear tyre, Bagnaia the medium.

And as we sꦏay that, looks like Bagnaia is dꦉone with this run.

08:29

Bagnaia now doing some ra✅ce running. Pace seemingly a couple of tenths shy of Marquez's but he's about ⛄comparable with Acosta in low-1:30s.

08:28

Joan Mir doing his best Toprak Razgatlioglu imp💮ression with a seemingly intentional stoppie braking for the final corner. Not the smoothest landing for the rear tyre, but this is looking increasingly promising for HRC and Mir, who actually looks relatviely comfortable on the RC213V for perhaps the first time since he jumped on it at the end of 2022.

08:25

So♏mkiat Chantra lapping in the low-1:36s at the moment and is the only Honda rider still running that pilot🤡 whale-ish tail unit.