20:14
Alex Marquez hits the front now with a 2m13.384s.
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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
20:12
Marc Marquez has also improved at the top of the order to a 2m13.411s.
20:12
Zarco moves up to second now with a 2m13.553s. About a second away from FP1 times at this stage.
20:11
Miller closes the gap to Marquez with a 2m13.813s on his Pramac Yamaha.
20:09
Big lap from Fermin Aldeguer. He's just gone second, 0.448s behind Marc Marquez.
20:07
Marc Marquez takes over top spot now with a 2m13.546s, putting him a second clear of the field.
20:05
First laps are on the board and already we're pretty close to FP1 times. Bagnaia is fastest with a 2m14.513s.
20:03
Worth noting that all four KTMs have identical liveries this weekend...
We don't know, either. I can only imagine somebody at KTM thought that would be a funny joke or something.
20:02
Looks like there is a bit of an issue with Maverick Vinales' KTM. His crew is removing the front fairing from his bike and he walks back into his garage.
20:01
Everyone is heading out on wet tyres to begin with, but there is clear dry patches forming now on the racing line.
Presumably, Jack Miller will be the first to test slicks in this session.
20:00
Green light
Pitlane is open for Practice.
19:55
Just five minutes till the session begins.
19:49
Franco Morbidelli led the way in FP1, while Marc Marquez had his first crash of the season as a factory Ducati rider.
Scroll down a little to find the link to our report of the session.
19:48
This hour-long session will decide who goes directly into Q2 in qualifying and who has to face Q1.
If there is a drying line, this will make the upcoming session pretty hectic.
19:47
It's still wet at COTA, but there is a dry line appearing at the end of the Moto2 session.
19:46
Practice build-up
Good evening and welcome back to our live coverage of the 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix.
Practice is up in just 15 minutes.
19:11
16:49
That's all from us for now, but be sure to joins us again from 8pm GMT for coverage of Practice.
In the meantime, keep your eyes fixed on Crash.net for all of the latest news from the COTA paddock.
16:48
FP1 report
Read the full FP1 report for the 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix here
16:34
16:31
Morbidelli fastest in COTA FP1
Morbidelli ends the morning fastest of all from Miller and Marc Marquez.
16:30
Chequered flag
Chequered flag is out.
16:30
Morbidelli fastest again with a 2m12.531s.
16:29
Sounds like low temperatures are what's been causing Aprilia's various bike issues this morning.
16:27
Zarco puts a 2m12.838s on the board to go fastest on the LCR Honda.
