10:07
The 15-minute practice start period is no🌸w underway, with team members and fans flocking to the start-finish line.
Johann Zarco defies his holeshot device to pull a big whee🧔lie🅺 all along the main straight!
Marc Marquez, 2025 Sepang MotoGP test
2025 Official Sepang MotoGP Test - Day 1 as it happened
Recap Wednesday’s opening day of the 2025 Official Sepang MotoGP test.
The🍬✅ full MotoGP rider line-up takes to the track for the first time in 2025 during the Official Sepang test from Wednesday to Friday.
Rookies Ai Ogura, Fermin Aldeguer and Somkiat Chantra, factory test riders🐻 and full-time race riders from Yamaha took part in a three-day Shakedown test at the Mal💖aysian circuit over the weekend.
The other Honda race ridꦰers aside from Chantra (Joan Mir, Luca Marini and Johann Zarco) were also eligible for the shakedown, but did not take part.
The trio, plus the likes of reigning champion Jorge Martin and new Ducati Lenovo rider Marc Marquez, will be riding a MotoGP bi🥀ke for the first time since Barcelona last November.
Just five days of official pre-season testing – three at Sepang, then two at Buriram – are av﷽ailable before the start of the 2025 MotoGP season in Thailand on February 28.
Testing at Sepang takes place from 10am t🎶o 6pm, followed by practice starts…
04 Feb 2025
10:01
ꦍDay 1 of testing ends with Fabio Quartararo ahead of Marc Marquez, Alex Marquez, Fermin Aldeguer, Franco Morbidelli and Joan Mir.
10:00
Marc Marquez puts in a late attack to take second place, just 0.051s behind ꦡFabio Quartararo.
09:36
Into the last 25mins of day o♕ne and Mir has impressed by taking over 5th for Honda.
Top 🌠4 still Quartararo, A.Marquez, Aldegue🏅r, Morbidelli.
09:28
Raul 𒈔Fer𒁏nandez's Sepang test is officially over.
Trackhouse confirm he is going to fly back to Spain tonight after fracturing a metacarpal bon🐈e in his left hand.
09:25
Quartararo is posting red sectors, he o𒆙nly needs 0.016s to reclaim the top spot from Alex Marquez.... he finds 0.2s and retak꧑es P1 for Yamaha.
09:21
40mins to go on day one of the Official test and it's still Alex Marquez on top with the Ducati GP24 from Yamaha's Fabio Quartara🌱ro and Gresini team-mate Fermin Aldeguer.
Joan Mir has just made it two Hondas in the top ten, with Johann Zarco leading the 👍RC213V challenge in 7th.
09:05
Another personal best by di Gianna✃ntonio, he's now 6th fastest, just behind Marc Marquez.
Impressive from the young Italian who is riding a MotoGP bike for the first time since last October Thai Grand Prix and wasn't sure how his healing shoulder would hold up in terms of 🍌endurance.
09:03
Fಞabio di Giannantonio is putting in his best laps of the day a𝔍nd breaks into the top ten.
The GP25s are now 5th (Marc Marquez), 9th (Fabio di Giannanಞtonio) and 15th (Francesco Bagnaia).
08:59
Top 8 with an hour of testing to go: A.Marquez, Quartararo, Aldeguer, Morbidelli, M.Marquez, Za🌌rco, Miller, Acওosta.
08:58
Morbidelli follows it up with another🐻 personal best lap, but remai🎀ns in 4th (+0.376s).
08:56
Another GP24꧑ is on the attack: Franco Morbidellওi.
Th🅰e new VR46 rider slots into 4th place, meaning Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo (2nd) is now the only non-GP24 in the top 4!
08:52
Johann Zarco putsﷺ Honda into fifth♎ place and is just over half-a-second from Alex Marquez.
08:47
Over ღat Aprilia, now down to just two of their 2025 race riders, it's Ai Ogura in 🧸10th as the best RS-GP with Marco Bezzecchi in 15th.
08:45
Rookie Aldeguer backs up Alex Mꦉarquez's speed by posting the fastest opening sector of the day on his GP24. The rest of the lap isn't quite as good but he still climbs from 7th to 3rd.
08:42
Just under an h📖our and a half to go and the orange (🤪personal best) sectors are flashing up for Pedro Acosta and Fermin Aldeguer, but they remain 5th and 7th respectively.
08:39
Some test-best sectors by a Marquez - but it's Alex, not Marc.💙
Alex, quickest last November in Barcelona🐓, finally topples Fabio Quartararo from P1 by just 0.016s with his Gresini GP24.
08:33
Info from VR46: 'Crash fo🍬r Franky Morbidelli at Tur𒁏n 6. Rider OK'
08:32
These are the fastest ride🐠rs NOT to have ridden at the Shakedown test:
Marc Marquez (2nd)
Pedro Acosta (4th)
Alex Marquez (5th)
Franco Morbidelli (7th)
Maverick Vinales (9th).
08:31
Maverick Vinales sets his four beဣst sectors... and rises from 14th to 9th for Tech3 KTM.
08:29
Another 'Fernandez' has cras🍎hed, this time it's Yamaha test rider Augusto, at Turn 9. 'Rider OK'.
08:28
Jack Miller (6th) is also setting some best sectors, the ne🍸w Pramac Yamaha rider takes an all-black M1 to third on the timesheets (+0.622s).
08:25
So, GP25 check: Marc Marquez 2nd (+0.506s), Francesco Bagnaia 12th (+1.193ജs), Fabio di Giannantonio 18th (1.782s) after his earlier fall.
