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2024 Americas MotoGP
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2025 Americas MotoGP: Friday practice as it happened
Live text coverage of Friday practice for the 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix
The 2025 MotoGP season heads to the United States for round three, with Marc Marquez looking to keep up his 100% win record this weekend at the Americas Grand Prix.
The factory Ducati rider has made a perfect start to life with the Italian marque's works squad, having qualified on pole and won both races at the opening two rounds of the season in Thailand and Argentina.
The Circuit of the Americas has been a happy hunting ground for Marc Marquez over the years, with the Spaniard winning seven times at the Texan venue - including his maiden premier class success in 2013.
With most predicting him to dominate this weekend, Marquez warned on Thursday in the pre-even press conference that COTA was the only race he crashed out of during his "perfect" 2019 campaign. Therefore, he is not getting carried away.
Having pushed him hard in the Argentina GP, Alex Marquez will be looking to go one better than the second-place he has so far finished in every race of 2025.
The Gresini rider doesn't have a stellar record at COTA, but he is confident that he will be competitive this weekend given how good he feels on his GP24 Ducati.
All eyes will be on Pecco Bagnaia and if he can get himself into victory contention after a difficult start to the campaign in the opening two rounds.
The double world champion said after finishing a distant fourth in Argentina that he could look to revert to the GP24 from Austin - comments he backtracked on, claiming he didn't put across what he meant to say.
Typically not a strong circuit for Bagnaia, he believes he has pace enough to be better at COTA than he was at Termas de Rio Hondo two weeks ago.
COTA represents the most recent venue at which Honda has won a grand prix, after Alex Rins guided his LCR-run RC213V to the Americas GP win in 2023.
After a strong weekend in Argentina, in which Johann Zarco qualified on the front row and cracked the top six in both races, Honda is well-placed to impress again.
MotoGP FP1 begins at 3:45pm GMT, with Practice at 8pm GMT.
28 Mar 2025
21:21
Report
Read the full Practice report for the 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix here
21:05
21:02
Marc Marquez tops a dramatic Practice. Bagnaia clings onto a Q2 spot in 10th, 0.120s clear of Quartararo.
21:02
Morbidelli makes an amazing effort to get up to third.
21:01
Quartararo is out of Q2, Bagnaia back to 10th again.
21:01
Di Giannantonio moves up to second, putting Quartararo into the danger zone.
21:01
Ai Ogura has been shuffled out of the Q2 spots. Still a few improvements coming.
21:00
Chequered flag
Chequered flag is out.
21:00
Marquez improves to a 2m02.929s, while Bagnaia is up to seventh.
20:59
Vinales improves to sixth, which pushes Bagnaia down to 10th and in the danger zone again.
20:59
Miller moves up to second now ahead of Alex Marquez. Bagnaia is now ninth. Morbidelli has returned to the track, but he's only got one chance to get to Q2.
20:58
Marc Marquez improves to a 2m03.469s, with Joan Mir 0.873s behind him in second. Bagnaia has been dropped to eighth.
20:57
Crash - Johann Zarco
Zarco has gone down at Turn 15. That brings out the yellow flags and ends his Q2 hopes.
He's up and ok.
20:57
Morbidelli has pitted. He's in 17th, so that's his Q2 hopes over.
20:56
Ai Ogura, out of nowhere, jumps up to fourth on the Trackhouse Aprilia.
20:55
Both Bagnaia and Marquez run wide at Turn 12 moments apart. The latter is still top, Bagnaia shuffled down to fifth.
20:53
Marc Marquez just blows everyone away again, though, with a 2m04.220s. That's put him six tenths clear of the field as Di Giannantonio hops up to second.
20:53
Bagnaia goes third. Big lap for his Q2 hopes.
20:52
Bagnaia is now out of the Q2 places, with Bezzecchi improving to sixth and Morbidelli up to ninth.
20:51
Di Giannantonio moves to third, which puts Bagnaia into the danger zone in 10th.
20:50
Surprisingly, nothing going here right now for Aprilia. Bezzecchi is the fastest of the RS-GPs, but he's only 13th. Far cry from what happened to the marque at COTA last year!
20:49
10 minutes left in the session. Things are about to go crazy.
20:47
Miller jumps to the top of the times with a 2m05.115s. He's loving these conditions on that Yamaha.
20:45
Just as we hit send on that post, Quartararo jumps up to sixth on the factory Yamaha.
