19:00
Chequered flag is out.
Francesco Bagnaia
2025 Argentina MotoGP: Friday practice as it happened
Recap Friday practice at the 2025 MotoGP Argentine Grand Prix
The 2025 MotoGP season continues on 14-🐽16 March with the second round of the campaign, as the series returns to the Argentina Grand Prix.
The South American event was absent from last year's calendar due to government spending cuts in the country, but retu♈rns for 2025.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez comes to Termas de Rio Hondo looking to build on his dream start to 2025 after winning both races frꦡom pole at the T🌞hai GP to take his first lead in the championship since Valencia 2019.
The factory Ducati rider last 𝔉raced in Argentina in 2019, when he won by almost 10 seconds in one of the most dominant showings of his MotoGP career.
Team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia hasn't enjoyed much success in Argentina over the years and needs to rebound after a difficult Thai GP weekend. Bagnaia claims he kno🧸ws what went wrong, but is being tight-lipped on the de🐎tails.
Gresini's 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez is expected to be a podium contender again at a track he scored his first premier class pole and was on the rostrum at in 2023. He sits second in the sta💯ndings a♕fter a brace of second-place finishes in Thailand.
MotoGP will be without its world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin again as he continues hi🍌s recovery from injury, with the Aprilia rider revealing on Thursday that he will also be abs💯ent from the upcoming Americas GP at COTA.
Aprilia scored its first MotoGP win at Termas de Rio Hondo in 2022, while its factory rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi♈ tallied up his maiden premier class victory at the track in 2023.
With rookie Ai Ogura also making a hot start to 2025 in Thailand, Aprilia is expeඣcted to have a strꦡong weekend.
Solid showings from Honda and Yamaha in Thailand will be te💝sted at a low-grip Argentinian venue, while KTM will be 🌜hoping to close the gap to the leaders after a tough start to the campaign.
FP1 for the 2025 Argentina GP begins atꦰ 1:🦋45pm GMT. Practice is at 6pm GMT.
14 Mar 2025
19:04
19:03
Crash - Pedro Acosta
Acosta has crashed at Turn 2 after the flag 🐼while cruising.
19:01
Chequered flag - Marc Marquez fastest again
Marc Marquez holds onto top spot with a 1🌞m37.295s as Fabio Di Giannantonio leaps up to second late on.
Bagnaia holds onto 10th and is safe in Q2.
18:59
Yellow flags in the first sector briefly may weﷺll just help Bagnaia.
18:59
Bagnaia pushed down to ninth by Binder and Zarco.ಌ Just under a minute to go!
18:57
T𝄹hat lap pushes Bagnaia down to seventh and t🅘here is only 0.097s splitting Bagnaia from 10th-placed Morbidelli.
18:56
Quartararo jumps up to fifth without Bagnaia ahead of him, so fair 𝐆play to t✤he Yamaha rider.
18:56
Crash - Pecco Bagnaia
Bagnaia has crashed at Turn 2! He's s🍃ixth currently but that could be a disaster for his Q2 hopes.
18:54
Looks like Quartararo is doing so♚mething he never does and is picking Bagnaia to follow on his nex⛄t flying lap to try to get into Q2. It has worked for Rins so far!
18:50
Marc Marquez retakes top spot with a 1m37.438s, while Alex Rins goes fou💫rth using the Ducati as a reference. Alex Marq🙈uez moves up to third.
18:48
Bagnaia now fourth, 0.324s off the pace. That should just about be enough to get into the top 10 but it won't𓆉 be comfortable with just over 12 minutes to go.
18:47
Bagnaia moves up to sixth, wit❀h Bind꧙er fifth using the Ducati rider as a reference.
18:46
Marco Bezzecchi sets a new lap record with a 1m37😼.510s on the Aprilia to go fastest of all.
18:44
Standings after 45 minutes
- M.Marquez
- Acosta
- Bezzecchi
- Zarco
- A.Marquez
- Mir
- Morbidelli
- Vinales
- Di Giannantonio
- Bagnaia
18:43
Pedr🧸o Acosta jumps up to second with a 1m37.827s on a new soft rear tyre. Joan Mir goesꦜ sixth on fresh rubber.
18:38
Quite a few riders in p💞itlane now with just over 20 minutes to go. Things are about to heat up at Termas!
18:36
Crash - Johann Zarco
Zarco has gone down at Turn 2. Fast spill ෴but he's up and on his feet.
18:35
Bezzecchi will be setting up 🃏for an early time attack now, according to his Aprilia team's live radio communication inside the garage.
18:34
Marco Bezzecchi cuts Marquez's advantage to 0.181s as he puts the Aprilia into second.&𓃲nbsp;
18:31
Big improvement for Joan Mir, who moves up to seventh,🍨 whil♚e Maverick Vinales puts his Tech3 KTM 10th.
18:30
Standings after 30 minutes
- M.Marquez
- Zarco
- Bezzecchi
- A.Marquez
- Acosta
- Morbidelli
- Bagnaia
- Di Giannantonio
- Binder
- Quartararo
18:29
Expert analysis: the silver on the Gresini leathꦯers and bike fairings looks really good aꦚt speed.
18:26
Marquez has spread the field 🐠a bit right now. Pedro Acosta has just moved u🌊p to fifth on the KTM, but he's almost 0.7s adrift.
18:23
Ba𒉰ck-to-back 1꧋m37s for Marquez on this run so far.
