03:25
Martin (hard-soft) responds to the early setback in style, going fastest at the halfway stage.
Acosta, Vinales, Martin, 2024 Indonesian MotoGP
2024 Indonesian MotoGP: Sprint as it happened
Updates from Saturday’s qualifying sessions and Sprint race at the 2024 Indonesian MotoGP as they happened.
Hot on the heels of last weekend’s Emilia Romagna round, the ‘flyaway’ stage of the 2024 MotoGP World Championship kicks off with the Indonesian Grand Prix at Mandalika.
Despite Jorge Martin losing out on victory to Enea Bastianini on the last lap in Misano, Francesco Bagnaia’s seventh DNF of the season handed the Pramac rider a 24-point title lead over the reigning champion.
Bastianini begins the final six rounds holding third in the world championship, 59 points behind Martin but just one ahead of 2025 replacement Marc Marquez.
Martin won last year’s Mandalika Sprint race to briefly take the 2023 title lead, before a mistake while leading the grand prix handed the initiative back to Bagnaia.
Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo joined race winner Bagnaia on the 2023 Indonesian Grand Prix podium.
Martin starts on pole after smashing the lap record, while Bagnaia was fourth, Bastianini fifth and Marquez 12th after two crashes in Q2.
The 13-lap Sprint race beginning at 3pm (8am BST).
03:24
Only Pedro Acosta (3rd), Takaaki Nakagami (12th), Jack Miller (19th) and Augusto Fernandez (20th) are using the medium rear tyre.
03:21
Emilia Romagna winner Bastianini goes fastest with a 1m 30.582s. For comparison, his pace-setting Friday afternoon time attack was a 1m 29.630s.
03:20
Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo continues to impress, leading the early stages of the session on soft tyres, ahead of Enea Bastianini (hard-soft).
03:17
Crash for title leader Jorge Martin, who loses the front and falls at Turn 16.
The good news is that he's unharmed, keeps the bike running and gets it back to the Pramac pits.
03:15
Green flags are waved and final practice begins.
This is the last chance to work on race pace before this afternoon's Sprint.
As at Misano, the soft rear could well be the preferred choice for the Sprint, then the medium for the full-length race.
03:04
It's another hot and sunny morning as MotoGP prepares for the 30-minute final practice session at the Indonesian Grand Prix.
