"A perfect Saturday" for Marc Marquez, he tells Jack Appleyard - ha༺rd to argue after a pole position 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 🌊target 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 heඣ 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 best Yamaha𓆏 in 7th, and Joan Mir sco🐈red a point in ninth for Honda.

It's victory on debut for Marc Marquez on the factory Ducati, and a s🎃econd ever Sprint win here in Thailand.

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

Ont💯o the final lap now and M. Marquez now leads by over 1.5s from A. Marquez. Two seconds back then to ♓Bagnaia, who is maintaining a gap of around 0.8s to Ogura, who has been exceptional in this.

Fabio Di Giannantonio ❀has slowed and looks to be retiring. He was looking down at the dash𒁏board so perhaps a mechanical for the Italian.

Spreading 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. ꦗMarquez back to 1.1s, and he was marginally faster than Bag𝔉naia.

Pace start🍸ing 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. Marquez - but the gap between them is still over 1s.

Jack ꧃Miller has crashed out at 𝐆turn 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 that 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. Ogu𓄧ra still there behind him, too.

Another 0.3s dropped by Bagnaia to Alex Marquez that 🅠lap. The gap between the front tw🌜o 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 ౠfro♑nt ahead of his brother, Bagnaia there in third but under pressure from Ogura in fourth place.

Awful start for Bezzecchi, 🐲he spun on the line and is 1🌟7th.

We're undeꦍrway in🧜 Thailand and it's a holeshot for Marc Marquez.

Bagnaia passed Alex Ma🌠rquez into turn one, but they swap𒐪ped again on the exit.

The Warm Up lap is underway now in Thailand.

Just a couple of minutes remaining𓂃 now before the warm-up lap gets underway.

Given the performance he has displayed this weekend, it's difficul🐼t to see aꦕnyone 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 start of 💎the Sprint.

Both Franco Morbidelli and Somkiat Chantra have picked up grid penalties this weekend for impeding 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 Buriram and the riders are heading to the grid now o✨n the sighting lap.

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

This will make tyre management 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 Sprint here in Buriram.

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

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