20:41
Joan Mir has moved his Honda into fourth. Just under 20 minutes to go, so this top 10 Q2 order is going to change pretty rapidly.
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
20:45
Standings after 45 minutes
- M.Marquez
- Miller
- A.Marquez
- Aldeguer
- Mir
- Zarco
- Bagnaia
- Di Giannantonio
- Morbidelli
- Quartararo
20:40
Bagnaia is currently 1.6s off Marquez. That's going to sting, even if these conditions are iffy.
Worst of all, he's also got another Gresini Ducati ahead of him at this stage in Aldeguer.
20:39
Marc Marquez strengthens his place at the top of the timesheets with a 2m05.145s, while Aldeguer not far behind goes back up to second.
But the gap Marquez has over the field is almost a second.
20:38
Current Q2 group is:
- M.Marquez
- A.Marquez
- Aldeguer
- Bagnaia
- Mir
- Zarco
- Binder
- Quartararo
- Di Giannantonio
- Miller
20:36
What's most impressive from Aldeguer is he's on the medium rear slick while the rest are on softs. And he is still second.
Marc Marquez is now 1.3s clear with a 2m06.042s.
20:35
Alex Marquez goes into the 2m07s for the first time with a 2m07.999s.
20:34
Marc Marquez goes top with a 2m08.327s on his first slick lap. Aldeguer still second from Bagnaia.
20:33
As the track continues to improve, the times will keep chopping and changing. Getting a Q2 place will very much be a case of timing your last lap to perfection if there isn't any more rain.
20:33
Bagnaia moves up third, while Morbidelli is back up to fifth.
20:32
Aldeguer goes second on the Gresini Ducati. This is some great riding from the rookie in these conditions.
20:30
Marc Marquez is one of the last to head out on slicks. Will be interesting to see just how quickly he gets up to speed. That could be quite telling for how the rest of the weekend might pan out.
20:28
Miller finds yet more time with a 2m09.656s.
20:27
Marini is not having much luck on these slicks yet, though. He's down in 14th still and not yet able to better his wet tyre time.
20:26
Despite that mistake, Miller still improves to a 2m11.583s. Others are heading out on slicks now.
20:25
Miller runs wide at the end of the back straight. He was almost a second up after two sectors.
20:24
That will begin the mass changeover to slicks in pitlane, I think.
20:23
Miller's first lap on slicks is a good one. He jumps up to top spot with a 2m12.613s! Almost the best lap of the day.
20:22
Marini's first lap on the slicks was a 2m27.505s - about 14s off the best pace on wet tyres.
20:20
Marini very gingerly takes Turn 1 on his first flying lap on the slicks. Track is definitely looking drier through the first part of the circuit.
20:19
Miller is also now out on slicks.
20:19
Luca Marini is the first rider out on slicks.
20:18
Joan Mir guides the factory Honda to the top of the timesheets with a 2m13.073s.
20:18
Still some way off the FP1 best, which suggests we are getting closer to the crossover point where the wets are not really offering the best performance and slicks could be the way forward.
Just over 40 minutes to go.
20:17
FP1 pacesetter Morbidelli goes top now with a 2m13.292s.
