2025 Americas MotoGP: Marc Marquez dominates wet-to-dry Practice at COTA
Championship leader faཧstest in second practice at Americas MotoGP

Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Marc Marquez domi🐻nated a wet-to-dry Practice at the 2025 Americas Grand Prix, as Pecco Bagnaia was 1.5s adrift in 10th.
After the wet conditions of FP1, the rain had stopped inꩲ time for the hour-long Practice and a dry line was appearing as pitlane opened for the second session of the🐻 day.
While the early laps were completed on wet tyres, slicks were called for after just 20 minutes of running, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez using them to full effe𒆙ct to dominate th🀅e session.
The championship leader was 0.736s clear of the field with a 2m02.929s, with the VR46 Ducati duo of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Di Giannantonio and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli his nearest challenger.
Marquez’s team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia spent the final moments of Practice hovering around the danger zone as he battled for a place direcಌtly in Q2 qualifying.
As the chequered flag came out, Bagnaia was pushed back to 10th, but held onto a Q2 place by 0.120s over Yamaha’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo.
After 10 minutes of running in Practice, Marc Marquez set the pace at 2m13.456s on wet tyres, though the likes of𝕴 Alex Marquez, Morbidelli and Joan Mir would demote him over the following moments.
Honda’s Luca Marini and Pramac Yamaha’s Jack Miller were the first riders out onℱ slicks in the session with 40 minutes🌜 remaining.
Miller went top immediately on his first lap with a 2m12.♓613s, which led to the rest of the field ditching their 🅺wet tyres.
With 25 minutes remaining, Marc Marquez returned to the top of the order with a 2m08🦄.327s on his first slick t🌄yre lap.
He would trade top spot with Gresini’s Alex 🎃Marquez and Miller, but would ultimately see out the session fastest of all with a 2m02.929s.
This put Marc Marquez 0.736s clear of the field, with Di Giannanto🌜nio making a late leap to second.
Team-mate Morbidelli had pitted with just🎉 over three minutes to go, which threw his Q2 hopes into doubt.
But a final lap of 2m03.766s saw him jump up to third ahead ꦺof Gresini duo Alex M🤪arquez and rookie team-mate Fermin Aldeguer.
Miller was sixth and the only Yamaha through to Q2 so far, with Pedro Acosta the leading KTM in seventh 🤡ahead of Tech3’s Maverick Vinales.
Joan Mir was ninthജ on the factory Honda, with Bagnaia narrowly holding onto a Q2 place on the sister factory team Ducati.
The late improve💖ments for the VR46 pair knocked Quartararo out of the Q2 places, with the Yamaha rider facing Q1 alongside the likes of Brad Binder (KTM), Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) and Ai Ogura (Trackh♊ouse).
Marini f♑ailed to do much with his early slick tyr🐽e switch and was only 15th at the chequered flag, while 2023 COTA winner Alex Rins was a distant 17th.
A late crash for LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco ended 🎀his Q2 h𓆉opes and left him 20th in the session.
