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 MotoGP World Championship is the Qatar Grand Prix from the Luꦍsail International Cir෴cuit. 

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 standi🔥ngs for the first time in 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 points adrift. 

They will all be conten🔥ders for victory this weekend, as will VR46 Ducati's Fabio Di Giannantonio, who returned to the podium last time out for the first time since 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 to numerous injury woes. 

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

Apri𒆙lia has made a decent start to 2025 and will be looking 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 progress of the Ja🔯panese marques will be an intriguing subplot to the weekend. 

FP1 begins at𓆉 1:45pm BST, while Practice is at 6pm BST.

19:19

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Until then, keep your eyes fixed on mahbx.com for al🎶l the latest from the Lusail paddock.꧒ 

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 fastest𒐪 by 0.145ꦐs from Bagnaia and Marc Marquez. 

Di Gi⛦annantonio was fourth, with Alex Marquez, Quartararo, Acosta, Vinales, Aldeguer and Zarco secure the final Q2 spots. 

Martin was 20th with a 1m52.398s. 

19:02
Crash - Brad Binder

Brad B☂inder has crashed at Turn 1. He is out of Q2. 

19:01
Chequered flag

The chequered f𝔉lag is out and Morbidelli goes top﷽ with a 1m50.830s. 

18:59

Bagnaia in 😼the same boat, says the timing screen. 

18:59

Marc Marquez doesn't look li✃ke he's going for another time atta⛎ck. He's out on used medium/medium rubber. 

18:58

The yell▨ow flags looks to have been withdrawn. 

18:56
Crash - Jack Miller

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

That yeꩵllow flag will cause a prob💧lem for others. 

18:56

Di Giannantonio breaks into the top three wi🃏th a 1m51.129s. Four minutes to go. 

18:55

Quartararo puts in a mighty lap to put his Yama📖ha fifth. 

18:53

Martin's next lap goes wrong in the third sector. He's 21st with seven m🌊inutes to go. 

18:51

Jorge Martin was on a solid lap but got caught up in traffic at Turn🎐 7. 

18:50

Alex Marquez moves into fourth. 𝕴All Ducati top five with 10 minutes to go. 

18:50

Marc Marquez produces a 1m50.997s, but that's only gꦛood enoug🍰h for second at this stage. 

18:49

Good laps by the KTMs. A💧costa fourth, Vinales fifth and Binder up to eighth. 

18:48

Basi🦩cally, it looks like if you want to beat Bagnaia you're going to have to beat the lap record. 

18:48

But Bagnaia blಌasts past with a 1m50.975s. Great lap!

18:47

Morbidelli goes top with a 1m51.253s.

18:45

But top Yamaha honours bel𝔉ongs to Miller currently, who has 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 sof꧅t rear but can only go 13th. ꧅;

18:39
Standings with 20 minutes to go

Calm before the time attack✨ 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 KTM on a new soft rear tyre.