18:05
Acosta makes a move on Quartararo for fourth at Turn 1.
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Argentina MotoGP
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2025 Argentina MotoGP: Sprint as it happened
Lap-by-lap updates from the 12-lap sprint at the 2025 MotoGP Argentina Grand Prix
Marc Marquez will make his bid for a second spring win in MotoGP 2025 after topping qualifying at the Argentina Grand Prix for the factory Ducati team.
Topping both sessions at Termas de Rio Hondo on Friday, Marquez comes into Saturday's 12-lap sprint as favourite after setting a new all-time lap record on to take pole.
Alex Marquez will go from second once again on his Gresini Ducati and feels he is closer in pace to his elder brother than he was at the Thai GP.
Completing the front row was LCR Honda's Johann Zarco, who delivered the Japanese marque its first qualifying top three result since the 2023 Italian GP - highlighting just how much progress it has made over the winter with its bike.
Pecco Bagnaia was fourth on the second of the factory team Ducatis and believes he is "ready to fight". KTM's Pedro Acosta and VR46's Fabio Di Giannantonio complete row two.
The sprint begins at 6pm GMT.
15 Mar 2025
18:04
Crash - Brad Binder
Binder has gone down. He's up and ok.
18:04
Quartararo has a look at Bagnaia into Turn 5 but the Ducati holds firm.
18:03
Race Start
Marc Marquez gets off the line best and leads at Turn 1. Alex Marquez is second, Bagnaia third. Zarco has dropped to sixth. Quartararo has launched up to fourth.
18:01
You have to feel that someone will have to jam their bike up the inside of Marquez into Turn 1 and try to disrupt his rhythm if they have any hope of beating him today.
The last time Marc Marquez started a race in Argentina, he ended the first lap a second up the road.
18:00
The warm-up lap is underway.
17:55
Five minutes till lights out. No changes to tyre selection so far. Rain looks to be staying away for now.
17:50
10 minutes till lights out.
17:47
Tyre choice
So far, everyone is heading to the grid on the soft rear/medium front combination.
17:46
Pitlane opens and everyone heads out on the sighting lap.
17:44
The last time we had a sprint race in Argentina, it was KTM's Brad Binder who took the victory from 15th on the grid back in 2023.
He goes from 11th today.
17:43
Not the warmest of days at Termas de Rio Hondo. Only 21 degrees C ambient, 27 degrees C track temperature.
While it's not in the forecast, the threat of rain does hang over the circuit ahead of this sprint.
17:40
Analysis from Friday's long run data suggests Marc Marquez is still the rider to beat as we get set to start racing this weekend.
Read more here
17:35
Pre-Sprint Championship Standings
- M.Marquez - 37
- A.Marquez - 29
- Bagnaia - 23
- Morbidelli - 18
- Ogura - 17
- Bezzecchi - 10
- Binder - 10
- Zarco - 9
- Bastianini - 7
- Di Giannantonio - 6
- Miller - 5
- Marini - 4
- Quartararo - 4
- Acosta - 4
- Aldeguer - 3
- Oliveira - 2
- Mir -1
17:32
Starting Grid
Row 1 - M.Marquez, A.Marquez, Zarco
Row 2 - Bagnaia, Acosta, Di Giannantonio
Row 3 - Quartararo, Morbidelli, Bezzecchi
Row 4 - Mir, Binder, Rins
Row 5 - Miller, Aldeguer, Ogura
Row 6 - Marini, Oliveira, Fernandez
Row 7 - Chantra, Vinales, Bastianini
Row 8 - Savadori
17:31
Sprint build-up
Good evening and welcome back to our live coverage of the 2025 MotoGP Argentina Grand Prix.
Coming up in half an hour is the sprint!
14:50
That's all from us for now. Join us again from 6pm for live coverage of the sprint.
14:50
MotoGP Argentina GP - qualifying report
Read the full report from the 2025 MotoGP Argentina GP here
14:34
Full Qualifying Results
14:33
Marc Marquez beats Alex Marquez in Q2
It's a second pole of 2025 for Marc Marquez, 0.246s clear of Alex Marquez as his brother slots into second on the Gresini Ducati.
Zarco gets a first front row for Honda since the 2023 Italian GP.
14:30
Chequered flag
Chequered flag is out and nobody looks like challenging Marc Marquez.
14:30
It's a 1m36.917s for Marc Marquez! The fastest ever lap at Termas de Rio Hondo.
14:29
Alex Marquez is lighting the timing screens up on this lap. But so is his brother!
14:27
Bagnaia makes an improvement to a 1m37.268s, but that's only good enough for fourth. He'll need to dig a bit deeper to get onto the front row.
14:26
Bezzecchi goes on his way for a flying lap and looks really good on that Aprilia. Looks like he's able to push it more like how he wants. Bike looks compliant.
