"A perfect Saturday" for Marc Marquez, he tells Jack Appleyard - hard to argue after a pole p꧑osition and Sprint victory. Hard to see him being stopped tomorrow over 26 laps.

Alex Marquez tells Jack Appleyard in his podium interview that second was his ta🍎rget before the Sprint, and that he knew winning would be difficult when he ended the first lap behind M. Marquez.

Bagnaia blames his relative lack of pace on the✃ same feeling in the Sprint that he had last year and🍨 a lack of confidence on corner entry. Says he backed off a bit when he realised chasing the Marquez brothers was too risky.

The best KTM was Pedro Acosta in 6th ♛place, but he never had the pace of the five in front of him.

Fabio Quartararo was the bes🍨t Yamaha in 7th, and Joan Mir scored a point in ninth for Honda.

It's victory on debut for Ma🌺rc Marquez on the factory Ducati, and a second ev♒er Sprint win here in Thailand.

Alex Marquez takes second, ahead of Bagnaia who rounds out t🐻he podium. Ogura takes a solid fourth, and Morbidelli rounds out the top-five.

Onto the final lap now and M. Marquez now leads by over 1.5s from A. Marquez. T🔯wo seconds back then to Bagnaia, who is maintaining a gap of around 0.8s to Ogura, who has been exceptional in this.

Fabio Di Giannanton🍃io has slowed and looks to be retiring. He was looking down at the dashboard so perhaps a mechanical for the Italian.

𝔍Spreading out at the front properly now. Over a second between 1-2-3-4 now, and yet another all-Ducati podium looks fairly nailed on at this point. Still four to go, though.

Better lap for A. Marquez there, got the gap to M. Marquez back to 1.1s, and he was marg♎inally faster than Bagnaia.

Pace starting to drop for everyone and mostly for Ogura, who had a big rear slide entering turn one that lap and has dropped over 0.5s now behind Bagnaia, who was almost 0.2s faster than A. Marq🧸uez - but th𒅌e gap between them is still over 1s.

Jack Mi꧙ller has crashed out at turn eight. He's up and okay.

M. Marquez's lead up to one second now. A. Marquez, Ba♈gnaia, and Ogura all 30.2 that lap.

Bagnaia's pace has definitely improved and it's another 1:30.2 on th♉at lap for him, but the two Marquez brothers are 30.0. Ogura still matching Bagnaia's pace and definitely has a shot at the podium here!

Better lap for Bagnaia there, all the top three did low-1:30s, but he's now 2s off the lead and 1.2s behind A. Marquez. Ogura still there🐼 behind him, too.

Another 0.3s droppe💖d by Bagnaia to Alex Marquez that lap. The ✱gap between the front two now up to 0.6, too.

Bagnaia dropped half-a-second to the two ahead of him on that second lap. Not a great start for the #63whowas fairly optimistic abouthis race pace after qualifying.

M. Marquez already checking out at the front ahead of his brother, Bagnaia there 🍰in third but under pressure from Ogura in fourth place.

Awful start for Bezzecc🅘hi, he spun on the line and is 🔴17th.

We're underway in Thailand and i🎶t's a holesho𓃲t for Marc Marquez.

Bagnaia passed Alex Marquez into turn one,𒀰 but they swapped agai𒁏n on the exit.

The Warm Up lap is underway now in Thailand.

Just a couple of minutes remaining now before the warm-up 🦩lap gets underwaౠy.

Given the performance he🐬 has displayed this wee𝔉kend, it's difficult to see anyone beating Marc Marquez, but as usual the start will be critical, and the battle for the podium behind is tough to call.

10🌺 minutes to go now until the startꦍ of the Sprint.

Both Franco Morbidelli and Somkiat Chantra have picked up grid penalties this weekend for i꧟mpeding other riders in Practice yesterday, but the penalties only affect the Grand Prix and not the Sprint; therefore Morbidelli will start the Sprint sixth, and Chantra 21st for his first premier class race.

Pit lane has opened in Burir🅠am and the riders are heading to the grid now on the sighting lap.

It's 🦄fairly warm ahead of this one: 37C air temperature and 58C track temperature.

This will make tyre managemen⛦t key, not only about wear but also how you get through the first couple of laps and the degree of traffic you find yourself in. After the opening stages, rising temperatures and pressures will make overtaking increasingly difficult.

Welcome back to live coverage of this weekend's MotoGP Thai Grand Prix and of the first race of the year with the Spr�♏�int here in Buriram.

Marc Marquez starts from pole position after a messyꦫ Q2, with Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia joining him on the front row.

Report: Marc Marquez beats Alex for Thai MotoGP pole: “Now it’s the important part”