2025 Aragon MotoGP, MotorLand – Friday Practice Results

* Rookie

Official Aragon MotoGP Data:

Finest lap: Marc Marquez Ducati 1m 45.801s (2024)

Quickest race lap: Luca Marini Ducati 1m 47.795s (2022)

Marc Marquez stays away from the sphere to finish a Friday observe double for the 2025 Aragon MotoGP.

In the meantime, it was a nightmare opening day for Fabio Quartararo, on pole for the final three rounds, who was repeatedly thrown out of the seat by his Yamaha and might want to participate in Saturday’s Qualifying 1.

Marc Marquez had kicked off his quest for an additional good Aragon weekend by main youthful brother Alex by 0.970s in FP1.

It took the manufacturing unit Ducati star, at present 24 factors forward of his brother on this planet championship, till this seventh lap to prime the afternoon hour.

Like most riders, Marquez was utilizing medium compound tyres (entrance and rear) for his race preparation, with solely the Hondas on the exhausting entrance.

The KTMs have been amongst these to place lengthy runs on the revised comfortable rear, an possibility for the Dash.

Ominously for his rivals, Marquez improved on 14-lap-old rubber to take a seat virtually half-a-second away from RC16 riders Pedro Acosta and Maverick Vinales when time assaults started on new comfortable rubber.

The eight-time world champion instantly prolonged his benefit to 1.141s on his first flying lap and remained in a league of his personal.

The battle for second was a lot nearer with Brad Binder, Acosta, and Alex Marquez swapping locations earlier than the Gresini rider stored maintain of the place.

The Hondas of Joan Mir and Johann Zarco have been additionally in sturdy type to grab late locations within the prime six.

Nonetheless, KTM stored three riders inside the highest ten for direct Qualifying 2 entry.

Marquez’s manufacturing unit team-mate Francesco Bagnaia confronted a battle to carry on to a prime ten place earlier than securing ninth.

In the meantime, Aprilia’s Silverstone winner Marco Bezzecchi was pushed to eleventh by a late cost from Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer.

Fabio Quartararo, robbed of the Silverstone lead by a ride-height system failure, lower a pissed off determine as he suffered a number of moments with the entrance and particularly rear of his M1, punching the air in exasperation.

The Monster Yamaha rider completed day one in simply 18th place, behind wild-card Augusto Fernandez, the Frenchman talking briefly to his workforce earlier than strolling out of the storage. 

* Rookie

Official Aragon MotoGP Data:

Finest lap: Marc Marquez Ducati 1m 45.801s (2024)

Quickest race lap: Luca Marini Ducati 1m 47.795s (2022)

Marc Marquez picks up the place he left off final season by dominating opening observe for the 2025 Aragon MotoGP.

The MotoGP title chief, quickest in each monitor session he took half in a 12 months in the past with Gresini, fired a warning shot by bolting to an early one-second benefit on his manufacturing unit Ducati.

Youthful brother and closest championship rival Alex Marquez briefly closed in, just for Marc to suit a brand new comfortable entrance tyre and push his benefit to over one second once more.

When the chequered flag waved, the #93 remained comfortably out of attain, his solely hiccup being a sluggish ultimate lap as he regarded down at his bike, then a ‘slippery’ observe begin.

However whereas 0.970s separated the Marquez brothers, that very same margin coated from 2nd to sixteenth place.

Boosted by his Silverstone victory, Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi was better of the remaining in third forward of Monster Yamaha’s Alex Rins and Tech3 KTM’s Maverick Vinales.

Lone HRC rider Joan Mir, Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer and VR46’s Franco Morbidelli adopted, whereas Francesco Bagnaia suffered a number of off-track moments on his method to tenth.

Silverstone race chief Fabio Quartararo started the weekend in eleventh.