Gresini Ducati rider Alex Marquez topped the final day of the Sepang MotoGP pre-season test, na🅘rrowly beating factory stablemate Fra♋ncesco Bagnaia.

The opening portion of the last day was dedicated to time attack runs, with a frantic qualifying sim phase seeing top spot change hands a ꧙number of times.

Leading the way on Friday was G🎀resini’s Alex Marquez, who fired in a 1m56.493s on his GP24 to head the timesheets come the end of hour two.

That time would go♎ unchallenged to the chequered flag, with Marquez putting 50 laps on his GP24♐ to cap off a positive test for the Spaniard.

Double world champion💝 Bagnaia led the open🍬ing hour with a 1m56.5s, which would stand as his best but would keep him off top spot by 0.007s.

Fabio Quartarar𓄧o completed the top three for Yamaha with a 1m56.724s that has proven to be 🦂the Japanese brand’s best-ever lap of the Sepang circuit by eight tenths of a second.

Thursday pacesett꧅er Franco Morbidelli was fourth on the VR46 Ducati, while factory Ducati rider Marc Marquez turned heads with a rapid sprint simulation on Friday.

He completed 70 laps on Friday as Ducati looks to finalise its engine selection f𝓀or the 2025 campaign.

Pe༺dro Acosta was the lead KTM in sixth, 0.682s off the pace ahead of the top Honda of LCR’s Johann Zarco in se♉venth.

ꦺJoan Mir was eighth on his factory Honda after a late improvement to a 1m57.279s, while Alex Riඣns made it two Yamahas in the top 10 with a 1m57.351s in 10th.

Marco Bezzecchi was the first of the Aprilias in ninth on a 1m57.328s, the Italian putting 61 laps on his RS-GP to maximise data gathering for the brand in the ab🍎sence of both Jorge Martin and Trackhouse’s Raul Fernandez.

Fermin Aldeguer was the first of the rooki෴es in 11th for Gresini, with Jack Miller 12th for Pramac Yamaha having ended his final day early at the conclusion of a full test programme.

Yamaha also had Andrea Dovizioso out on track on Friday, with the Italian completing 58 laps. He managed 🌌a best lap of 1m59.929s in 22ndꦐ, behind Aprilia tester Lorenzo Savadori.

Testing will continue with two final days in Thailand next week on 🌃12-13 February, before the season begins at the end of the month in Buriram.

Full MotoGP Sepang test day three results