18:23
To Zarco's credit, his lap was done on a nine-lap-old medium rear. This Honda speed does look genuine.
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 returns for 2025.
Marc Marquez comes to Termas de Rio Hondo looking to build on his dream start to 2025 after winning both races from pole at the Thai GP to take his first lead in the championship since Valencia 2019.
The factory Ducati rider last raced in Argentina in 2019, when he won by almost 10 seconds in one of the most dominant showings of his MotoGP career.
Team-mate 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 knows what went wrong, but is being tight-lipped on the details.
Gresini's 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 standings after a brace of second-place finishes in Thailand.
MotoGP will be without its world champion Jorge Martin again as he continues his recovery from injury, with the Aprilia rider revealing on Thursday that he will also be absent from the upcoming Americas GP at COTA.
Aprilia scored its first MotoGP win at Termas de Rio Hondo in 2022, while its factory rider 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 expected to have a strong weekend.
Solid showings from Honda and Yamaha in Thailand will be tested 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 at 1:45pm GMT. Practice is at 6pm GMT.
14 Mar 2025
18:21
Johann Zarco takes over top spot briefly, but Marc Marquez moves clear with a 1m37.739s - close to the lap record already!
18:20
Marc Marquez moves ahead of his younger brother with a 1m38.184s on a new medium rear tyre.
18:18
Strong benchmark from Alex Marquez at this stage of the session. He's 0.299s clear of the field with just under 45 minutes to go.
Lap record of 1m37.683s will almost certainly be under threat when we get to the time attack phase of this session later on.
18:13
Quartararo has made his way back to pitlane.
18:13
Standings after 10 minutes
- A.Marquez
- Zarco
- Bagnaia
- Di Giannantonio
- Bezzecchi
- M.Marquez
- Binder
- Mir
- Ogura
- Marini
18:09
Alex Marquez improves further at the top of the order with a 1m38.205s.
18:09
Fabio Quartararo issue
Fabio Quartararo has stopped at the side of the track with an apparent issue on his Yamaha.
18:08
Bagnaia finds a huge chunk of time early on Practice, moving up to second with a 1m38.526s - almost two seconds faster than his FP1 best.
18:07
Alex Marquez now goes top with a 1m38.370s on the Gresini-run GP24.
18:06
Marc Marquez sets the fastest lap of the day on his third lap of the afternoon with a 1m38.749s on the factory Ducati.
18:05
Ai Ogura has a proper rodeo moment on the exit of the final corner. He ran over the kerb on his Aprilia and that unsettled the bike. Big scare but he kept it pointing in the right direction.
18:03
First laps come in and it's Brad Binder fastest with a 1m39.528s on the KTM.
18:00
Practice - Green flag
Pitlane is open for Practice. Alex Rins is first out on track.
17:57
Marc Marquez led FP1 this morning from LCR Honda's Johann Zarco.
Pecco Bagnaia was only 16th, though track conditions were not ideal in the opening session.
17:54
Just five minutes to go till the all-important hour-long second session of the day.
As always, the top 10 at the end of this session will advance through to Q2 directly on Saturday.
17:49
The preceding Moto2 session has ended under red flags for a crash for Alonso Lopez, but he walked away unscathed - his bike just came to a rest in an unsafe place.
17:46
Practice resumes
Good evening and welcome back to our live coverage of the 2025 MotoGP Argentina Grand Prix.
Practice is due to get underway in 15 minutes.
14:50
That's all from us for now, but keep your eyes fixed on Crash.net for all the latest news from the Argentina paddock.
Practice begins at 6pm GMT.
14:50
2025 Argentina MotoGP - FP1 report
Read the full FP1 report from the 2025 MotoGP Argentina Grand Prix here
14:32
Chequered flag - Marc Marquez fastest in FP1
Chequered flag has come out and Marc Marquez ends FP1 fastest of all with a 1m38.937s.
He heads Johann Zarco, Alex Marquez, Franco Morbidelli and Marco Bezzecchi.
Pecco Bagnaia ends the session 16th.
14:29
Bagnaia makes a small improvement from 20th to 14th, but not a great start to the weekend.
14:26
Big moment for Marquez at Turn 9 but he gets away with it.
14:25
Marquez improves to a 1m38.937s. That was the 13th lap on that medium rear tyre too.
