"A perfect Saturday" for Marc Marquez, he tells Jack Appleyard - hard to argue after a🧸 pole position and Sprint victory. Hard to see him beiওng stopped tomorrow over 26 laps.

Alex Marquez tells Jack Appleyard in hiꦉs podium interview that second was hisℱ target before the Sprint, and that he knew winning would be difficult when 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 andꩲ a lack of confidence on corner entry. Says he backed off a b🅠it when he realised chasing the Marquez brothers was too risky.

The best KTM was Pedro Acosta in 6🥃th place, but he never had the pace🔜 of the five in front of him.

Fabio Quartararo was t🌊he best Yamaha in 7th, and Joanꦺ Mir scored a point in ninth for Honda.

It's victory on debut for Marc Marquez on the factory Ducati, and a second ever Sprint win h♔ere in Thailand.

Alex Marquez takes second, ahead of Bagnaia who rounds out the podium. Ogura takes a solid fourth, and Morbidelli round♓s out the top-fiv🍌e.

Onto the final lap now and M. Marquez now leads by over 1.5s from A. Marquez. Two seconds bac🐷k💮 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 perhaps 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 marginall🌼y faster than Bagnaia.

Pace starting to drop for everyone and mostly for Ogu𝓰ra, who had a big rear slide entering turn one that lap and has dropped over 0.5s now behind Bagnaia, who was almost 0.2s faster than A. Marquez - but the gap betw🐠een them is still over 1s.

Jack Miller has crashed out at turn eight. He's🎶 up and okay.

M. Marquez's lead up to one second now. A. Marquez, Bagnaia, and Ogura all 30.2 𓂃that lap.

Bagnaia's pace has defin🍸itely 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. Marquez꧑. Ogura still there behind him, too.

Another 0.3s dropped by Bagnaia to Alex Marquez that lap. The gap 🍌between t🍨he 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 pressure from Ogura in fourth place.

A🎀wful start for Bezzecchi, ꧅he spun on the line and is 17th.

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

Ba⛎gnaia pa🉐ssed Alex Marquez into turn one, but they swapped again on the exit.

The Warm Up lap is underway now in Thailand.

Just a couple 𒉰of minutes remaining now befo♔re the warm-up lap gets underway.

Give♉n the performance he has displayed this weekend, it's difficult to see anyone beating M💦arc Marquez, but as usual the start will be critical, and the battle for the podium behind is tough to call.

10 min💜utes to go now until the start of the Sp💛rint.

Both Franco Morbidelli and Somkiat Chantra have picked up grid penalties this weekend for impeding other riders in Practice yesterday, b💦ut 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 lane has opened in Buriram and ꦓthe riders are heading to the grid now on the sighting lap⛄.

It's fairly warm ahead of this one: 37C air temperature⛄ and 58Cꦐ track temperature.

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

Welcome back to live coverage of this weekไend's MotoGP Thai Grand Prix and of the first race of the year with the Sprint here in Buriram.

Marc Marquez starts from p☂ole position after a messy Q2, with Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia joining him on the fron🦄t row.

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