Pecco Bagnaia, Ducati Corse, 2025 Americas MotoGP
Pecco Bagnaia, Ducati Corse, 2025 Americas MotoGP
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2025 Qatar MotoGP: Friday practice as it happened

Text coverage of the 2025 MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix Friday practice sessions as they happened

The fourth round of the 2025 MotoGP𒅌𝓡 World Championship is the Qatar Grand Prix from the Lusail International Circuit. 

The championship battle has effectively been reset after a dramatic third round of the campaign in America, which saw the so-far dominant 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez crash out of the lead of the grand prix. 

This opened the door for factory Ducati team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia to score his first win of the season, while another second-place finish for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez put him at the top of the standings✃ for the first time 𒉰in his MotoGP career.

💜Alex Marquez leads Marc Marquez by one point coming into this weekend's Qatar GP, while Bagnaia - who won at Lusail last year - is just 12 poi♌nts adrift. 

They will all be contenders for victory this weekend, as will VR46 Ducati's Fabio Di Giannantonio, who returned to the podium last time out for the first time sincཧe his breakthrough Qatar GP win back in 2023. 

The big news coming into this weekend, however, is the return of reigning world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin, who has been absent since day one of testing thanks ౠto numerous injury woes. 

He will make his Aprilia debut this weekend having completed just 13 laps on the RS-GP this year and💧 will be looking to simply get through the round without incident as he tries to accelerate his adaptation to his new bike. 

Ap꧟rilia has made a decent start to 2025 and will be l🐓ooking to carry that forward at a decent circuit for the bike. 

KTM will be hoping to kickstart its campaign in Qatar having finished on the podium in both races at the circuit last year, while the continued progres🔯s of the Japanese marques will be an intriguing subplot to the weekend. 

FP1 begins a♈t 1:ও45pm BST, while Practice is at 6pm BST.

19:19

That's all from us. Thank you for your company and do please ಞjoin us again from 1:40pm BST on Saturday for qualifying action at t♓he Qatar GP. 

Until then, keep your eyes fixed𓂃 on ltxcn.top for all the latest from the Lusail pad⭕dock. 

19:18
Practice report

Read the full report of Practice from the 2025 MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:here

19:03
Morbidelli leads Practice

Morbidelli is fastest by 0🤪.145s from Bagnaia and Marc Marquez. ꦑ;

Di Giannantonio was fourth, with Alex Marquez, Quartararo, Acosta, Vinales, Aldeguer and Zar✤co secure the final Q2 spots. 

Martin was 20th with a 1m52.398s. 

19:02
Crash - Brad Binder

Br🎃ad Binder has crashed at Turn 1. He is out of Q2. 

19:01
Chequered flag

The chꦅequered flag is out and Morbidelli goes top with a 1m50.830s. 

18:59

Bagnaia in the same boat, says the timing 🦩screen.&nbs𒐪p;

18:59

Marc Marquez doesn't look like he's going for another time attack. He's out on use𒊎d medium/medium rubber.&nb💎sp;

18:58

The yellow flags looks to have been withdrawn.&nbs𒁃p;

18:56
Crash - Jack Miller

Miller has crashed again, this time at Turn 7. He's ok꧅ but he is out of Q2. 

That yellow flag will cause 𝓡a problem for others. 

18:56

Di Giannantonio breaks into the top three with a 1m51.129s. Four minutes to🐠 go. 

18:55

Quartararo puts in a mighty lap to put his Yamaha fifth.&nbs꧟p;

18:53

Martin♑'s next lap goes wrong in the third sector. He's 21st with seven minutes to go.&ﷺnbsp;

18:51

Jorge Martin was on a so🐻lid lap but got caught up in traffic at Turn 7.ꦬ 

18:50

Alex Mar෴quez moves into fourth. All Ducati top five with 10 minutes to go. 

18:50

Marc Marquez🍌 produces a 1m50.997s, but that's only good enough for second at this stage. 

18:49

Good laps by the KTMs. Acosta fourth, Vinales fifth and Binder ♋up to eighth. 

18:48

Basically, it looks like if you 🤪want to beat 💜Bagnaia you're going to have to beat the lap record. 

18:48

But Bagnaia bla☂sts past with a 1m50.975s. Great 💯lap!

18:47

Morbidelli goes top with a 1m51.253s.

18:45

But top Yamaha honours belongs to Miller currently, who 𓄧has ⛎gone up to sixth. 

18:45

Quartararo finds a 1m52.109s to go seventh. 

18:43

Bastianini is the first rider to put a lap in on a new soft rearᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ but can only go 13th. 

18:39
Standings with 20 minutes to go

Calm before the time attackꦬ storm. This is the top 10 currently:

  1. A.Marquez
  2. Bagnaia
  3. M.Marquez
  4. Vinales
  5. Morbidelli
  6. Di Giannantonio
  7. Zarco
  8. R.Fernandez
  9. Mir
  10. Rins
18:36

Vinales improves ꧂to fourth on the K♑TM on a new soft rear tyre.