"A perfect Saturday" for Marc Marquez, he tells Jack Appleyard - hard to argue after a pole position and Sprint victo▨ry. 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 wꦜhen 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 he realised chasing the Marquez brothers was too risky.

The best K🧜TM was Pedro Acosta in 6th place, but he never had th♍e pace of the five in front of him.

Fabio Quartararo was the🌸 best Yamaha in 7th, and Joan Mir scored a point inꦜ ninth for Honda.

It's victory on debut for Marc Marquez on the factory Ducati, a♚nd a second ever Sprint win here in Thailand.

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

Onto 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 dashboard 🌟so per🔥haps 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. Marquez back to 1.1s, and he was marginally 🐭fast𒁏er than Bagnaia.

Pace sta𓆉rting 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 no💖w behind Bagnaia, who was almost 0.2s faster than A. Marquez - but the gap between them is still over 1s.

Jack Miller has crashed ou🐼t at turn eight. He's up and okay.

M. Marquez's lead up 𝓀to 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. Ogura still there behind him, too.

Another 0.3s dropped by Bagnaia to Alex Marquez tha༒t lap. The gap between the front two 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 front ahead of his brother, Bagnaia there in third but under prဣessure from Ogura in fourth place.

Awful start for Bezzecchꦰi, he spun on the line and꧙ is 17th.

We're underway in🅷 Thailand and it's a holeshot for Marc Marquez.

Bagnaia passed Alex Marquez into turn⛎ one, but🎶 they swapped again on the exit.

The Warm Up lap is underway now in Thailand.

Just a couple of min🎐uಞtes remaining now before the warm-up lap gets underway.

Given the performance he has displayed this weekend, it's difficult to 🎶see anyone beating Marc Marquez, but as usual the starꦕt will be critical, and the battle for the podium behind is tough to call.

10 minutes to go now until 💫the start o🌟f 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 lan🦂e has opened in Buriram and t🐭he riders are heading to the grid now on the sighting lap.

It's fairly warm ahead of this one: 37C air🍒 temperature and 58C track t꧅emperature.

This will make tyre management key, not only about wear but also how you get through the first couple of laps and the de✅gree of traffic you find yourself in. After the opening stages, rising temperatures and pressures will make overtaking increasingly difficult.

Welcome back to li💫ve coverage of this weekend's Mot🦋oGP 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 messy Q2, with Alex Marquez and💎 Francesco Bꩲagnaia joining him on the front row.

Report: Marc Marquez beats Alex for Thai MotoGP pole: “Now it’s the important part”