19:00
Chequered flag is out.
Francesco Bagnaia
2025 Argentina MotoGP: Friday practice as it happened
Recap Friday practice at the 2025 MotoGP Argentine Grand Prix
The 2025 MotoGP season🍃 continues on 14-16 March with the second round of the campaign, as the series returns to the Argentina Grand Prix.
The🔯 South American event was absent from last year's calendar due to government spending cuts in the country, but returns for 2025.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez comes to Termas de Rio Ho꧙ndo looking to build on his dream start to 2025 after winning both races from pole at the Thai GP to take his first lead in the championship since Valencia 2019.
The factory Ducati rider last raced in Argentina in 2019, when he won by almost 10 secoꦬnds in one of the most dominant showings of his MotoGP career.
Team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia hasn't enjoyed much success in Argentina ov♎er the years and needs to rebound after a difficult Thai GP weekend. Bagnaia claims he knows what went wrong, but is being tight-lipped on the details.
Gresini's 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez is expected to be a podium contender again at a track 🐓he scored his first premier class pole and was on the rostrum at in 2023. He sits second in the standings after a brace of second-place finishes in Thailand.
MotoGP will be without its world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin again as he continues his recovery from injury, with the Aprilia rider revealing on Thursday that he will also be absent from the upcoming Americas GP at ꧃COTA.
Aprilia scored its first MotoGP win at Termas de Rio Hondo in 2022, while its factory rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi tallied up his maiden premier class 🔜victory at the track in 2023.🥂
With rookie Ai Ogura also making a hot start👍 to 2025 in Thailand, Aprilia is e♛xpected to have a strong weekend.
Solid showings from Honda and Yamaha in Thailand will be tested at a low-grip Argentinian venue, w෴hile KTM will be hoping to close the gap to the leaders after a tough start to the campaign.
FP1 for the 2025 Argenti💙na GP begins at 1:45pm GMT. Practice iꦺs at 6pm GMT.
14 Mar 2025
19:04
19:03
Crash - Pedro Acosta
Acosta hasꩲ crashed a👍t Turn 2 after the flag while cruising.
19:01
Chequered flag - Marc Marquez fastest again
Marc Marquez holds onto top s🉐pot with a 1m37.295s as Fabio Di Gianna🐓ntonio leaps up to second late on.
Bagnaia holds onto 10th and is safe in Q2.
18:59
Yellow flags in the first sec𒁃tor briefly may well just he♎lp Bagnaia.
18:59
Bagnaia pushed down to nint༺h by Binder and Zarcꦰo. Just under a minute to go!
18:57
That lap pushes Bagnaia down to seventh and there is only 0.097s splitting B🃏agnaia from 10th-placed Morbidelli.
18:56
Quar𓆏tararo jumps up to fifth without Bagnaia ahead of him, so fair play to the Yamaha rider.
18:56
Crash - Pecco Bagnaia
Bagnaia has crashed at T💟urn 2ܫ! He's sixth currently but that could be a disaster for his Q2 hopes.
18:54
Looks like Quartararo is doing something he never does and is picking Bagnaia to follow on his next flying lap to tr🐷y to get into Q2. It ♑has worked for Rins so far!
18:50
Marc Marquez retakes top spot w🌺ith a 1m37.438s, while Alex Rins goes fou🐟rth using the Ducati as a reference. Alex Marquez moves up to third.
18:48
Bagnaia now fourth, 0.324s off the pace. That should just about be enough to get into the top 10 but it won't be comfortable with just over 12 m꧑inutes to go.
18:47
Bagnaia moves up to sixth, with Binder fifth using t♕he Ducati rider as a reference.
18:46
Marco Bezzecchi sets a new lap record with a 1m37.510s on🐼 the Aprilia to go fastest of all.
18:44
Standings after 45 minutes
- M.Marquez
- Acosta
- Bezzecchi
- Zarco
- A.Marquez
- Mir
- Morbidelli
- Vinales
- Di Giannantonio
- Bagnaia
18:43
Pedro Acosta jumps up to second ﷽with a 1m37.827s on a new soft rear tyre. Joan Mir goes sixth on fresh rubꦉber.
18:38
Quite a few riders in pitlane now with just over 20 minutes 𒊎to go. Things are about to heat up at Termas!
18:36
Crash - Johann Zarco
Zarco has gone down at Turn 2. Fast spill b🐻ut he's up and on his feꦐet.
18:35
Bezzecchi will be settꦉing up for an ea🌳rly time attack now, according to his Aprilia team's live radio communication inside the garage.
18:34
Marco Bezzecchi cuts Marque🍒z's advantage to 0.181s as he pu🍃ts the Aprilia into second.
18:31
Big i🅺mprovement for Joan Mir, who moves up to seventh, while Maverick Vinales puts his Tech3 KTM 1✃0th.
18:30
Standings after 30 minutes
- M.Marquez
- Zarco
- Bezzecchi
- A.Marquez
- Acosta
- Morbidelli
- Bagnaia
- Di Giannantonio
- Binder
- Quartararo
18:29
Expert analysis: the silver on the Gresini ♐leathers and bike fairings looks really good at speed.
18:26
Marqueཧz has spread the field a bit right now. Pedro Acosta has▨ just moved up to fifth on the KTM, but he's almost 0.7s adrift.
18:23
Back-to-back 1m37s🍒 for Marquez on 🍰this run so far.
