Marc Marquez will be gunning to keep his 100% sprint record in 2025 alive on Saturday at the MotoGP Americas Grand Prix after qualifying on pole.
The wet and mixed weather on Friday have been replaced by dry conditions on Saturday at the Circuit of the Americas, with championship leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez coming into day two of the third round havinও🍸g set the pace in practice.
Suffering his first crash as a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati rider this season in the wet FP1, Marquez's confidence was not dented in the slightest as he we♔nt over seven tenths faster than the field in Practice.
He remains the💖 rider to beat at COTA, a venue at which he has won seven grands prix.
VR46's Fabio Di Giannantonio put in some fast late laps in Practice to move into Q2, and went on to qualify on the front row for🍃 the first time since Qatar 2023, while the Gresini Ducati of Alex Marquez completed the front row.
Pecco Bagnaia was 1.5s off team-mate Marc Marque🏅z at the end of Practice, and struggled in qualifying as he could only manage sixth.
Already 31 points off the championship lead, he will need to make a big sꦬtep on Saturday to stop tha𒀰t gap growing significantly in the sprint.
The sprint begins at 8pm GMT.
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Marc Marquez's 100% win record in 2025 continues despite a frantic opening lap a🅷t COTA.
Alex Marquez is secoꦇnd, Bagnaia returns to the podium in third. Di Giannantonio, Morbidelli, Quartararo, Acosta, Marini and Ogura take the remaining points.
Ogur♑a gets into ninth as Binder dropꦦs to 11th behind Bezzecchi.
Ai Ogura is putting Binder u💛nder big pressur𝓡e for the final point in ninth.
Marc Marquez crosses the line just 0.7s clear of Alex Marquez to start the final lap. Likely stag💎e manag♕ing this, but he can't relax too much!
Savadori🧔 has been given a long lap for shortcutting.
Two laps to go and Marc Marquez has pulled the pin. He's over a second clear of A💎l💦ex Marquez now.
Mistake for Bezzecchi at Turn 12 has allowed Binder into ni♏nth for the final poi🃏nt.
Vinales has pulled into pitlane. He was ru♛nning well.
Marc Marquez leads Alex Marquez still. Gap much the same as it has been the p𓆉ast few laps. Not a comfortable sprint this for the leader.
Morbidelli gets back into fifth at Turn 19.
Quartararo i🎐s not giving up, though, as he gets past Morbidelli at Turn 13 with a brilliant move for fifth.&nb🎐sp;
Bit 🌟♍of VR46 on VR46 action at Turn 8 as Di Giannantonio muscles past Morbidelli. Quartararo got back up to fifth - though he was picked off into Turn 12 again.
Four laps to go. As you were at the front, though Marc Marquez has found a couple of tenths over Alex Marquez. Bagnaia is 1.3s behind Alex but is quicke💎r than him.
Mir, by the way, lost the front at Turn 15 trying to close in on the battle foꦺr fourth ahead of him.
Quartararo has been overtaken by Di Giannanto🍷nio for fifth. Not a lot he can do abou༺t that, but the Mir crash gives him a big buffer in sixth to Acosta behind.
Halfway through the sprint and Marc Marquez continues to lead, but only by 0.4s over Alex Mar꧅quez.
Joan Mir has gone down at Turn 15. He was running in a really strong⭕ seventh.&n💛bsp;
Vinales and Acosta are having a good battle for eighth. Acosta muscles his way past at Turn 12.&nඣbsp;
Onto lap⛦ five, Marc Marquez is 0.8s clear of Alex Marquez. Bagnai༺a's pace is good now, but he's 1.7s behind second.
Quartararo 🌞almost lost the front into Turn 15 and drops behind Morbidelli. Just shows how much he is having to make up for the lack of power on that Yamaha.
Mir is putting on a good show in seventh. Marini has slid out of the points in 10th. Acosta has 🦋dropped to eighth after starting fourth, ൩and is now under pressure from Vinales.
