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Marquez is up on his feet. Rear of his Ducati let go at Turn 2 as he reapplied the gas and flicked him off.
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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
15:59
Crash - Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez has crashed at Turn 2.
That is his first crash of the 2025 season.
15:58
But, once again, it's Marc Marquez back at the summit of the timesheets with a 2m16.493s.
15:57
Miller returns to the top of the times with a 2m16.526s.
15:57
Both Raul Fernandez and Ai Ogura are in pitlane currently, along with Bezzecchi. Worth noting that those are all Aprilia riders.
15:56
Marquez is now 0.425s clear of Morbidelli, with Bagnaia, Vinales, Miller, Zarco, Mir, A.Marquez, Quartararo and Acosta your top 10.
15:55
Though that is instantly bested by Morbidelli with a 2m17.679s, which in turn is now beaten by Marc Marquez on a 2m17.254s.
15:55
Bagnaia now hits the front with a 2m18.788s.
15:55
Presumably that is on Bezzecchi's second bike, but that is unclear at this moment.
15:54
More issues for Bezzecchi coming onto the back straight. Sounds like the same problem.
15:53
Marc Marquez is back on top now with a 2m19.710s from Morbidelli, Miller, Vinales and Binder.
15:52
Miller goes fastest now with a 2m20.755s.
15:52
Bezzecchi heads back out on his Aprilia after some early issues.
15:51
Marc Marquez jumps to the top of the times with a 2m22.009s on his first flying lap, putting him 1.2s clear of Jack Miller.
15:49
Bezzecchi has made it back to his Aprilia garage.
15:48
Problems already for Marco Bezzecchi. Sounds like his Aprilia isn't too healthy coming into the stadium section.
15:46
And Quartararo has now joined the fray.
15:46
Pretty much everyone is out aside from Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo.
15:45
Green light
FP1 is underway.
15:43
After the Argentina GP, Pecco Bagnaia told the media that he was considering reverting to the GP24 from this weekend.
Ahead of FP1, he continues with the GP25 and says he misspoke when he made those comments.
15:41
Interesting 45 minutes of running coming up because the rain is set to stick around for Friday, but improve as the weekend goes on.
That means everyone will need to get some laps under their belt, in case any of the racing is hit by wet weather.
15:39
Five minutes to go until FP1 goes green.
15:38
Rider changes
There is one rider change to make you aware of for this weekend.
Augusto Fernandez makes his MotoGP return and his first start with Yamaha, as he fills in at Pramac for the injured Miguel Oliveira.
Lorenzo Savadori continues to deputise for world champion Jorge Martin - who is in the Aprilia garage this weekend.
15:33
Championship standings after two rounds
A reminder of how the standings look after the first two rounds of 2025:
- M.Marquez - 74
- A.Marquez - 58
- Bagnaia - 43
- Morbidelli - 37
- Zarco - 25
- Di Giannantonio - 22
- Binder - 19
- Ogura - 17
- Bezzecchi - 14
- Acosta - 13
15:30
FP1 build-up
Good afternoon and welcome to our live coverage of the 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix!
The championship has arrived in Austin, Texas, but the weather is not playing ball on Friday. FP1 will be run in wet conditions.
That session is due to start in 15 minutes.
