10:22
Friday's results below
Pol Espargaro, Sepang
2025 Sepang MotoGP Shakedown Test - Day 1 as it happened
Recap Friday’s opening day of the 2025 Sepang MotoGP Shakedown test.
MotoGP 2025 burst into action at Sepang in Malaysia with a three-day Shakedown ahead of next week’s Official test.
Rookies Ai Ogura, Fermin Aldeguer and Somkiat Chantra, factory test riders and full-time race riders from Yamaha and Honda (courtesy of the manufacturer’s concession rank of D) are eligible to participate in the Shakedown.
However, limits on the number of private testing tyres and team launches could also reduce the Shakedown attendance.
Yamaha’s quartet of race riders - Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins at Monster, plus Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira at the new Pramac project - are booked for a presentation in Kuala Lumpur this (Friday) evening.
However, former MotoGP title runner-up Andrea Dovizioso and 2024 racer Augusto Fernandez are set for M1 testing this weekend.
Honda’s factory team of Joan Mir and Luca Marini are holding their 2025 team launch on Saturday in Indonesia, meaning new test riders Aleix Espargaro and Takaaki Nakagami could take on extra Shakedown duties.
Espargaro previously took part in a two-day private test at Buriram, where new technical director Romano Albesiano made his Honda ‘debut’.
The official Sepang test, featuring all 2025 race riders, will take place from February 5-7.
31 Jan 2025
10:16
Day 1 has finished
The on-track has action has come to a conclusion on the first day of the Sepang Shakedown.
09:09
Into the final hour of day one and rookie Ai Ogura sets his best time of the day to climb to second, between Pol Espargaro and Takaaki Nakagami.
08:59
Brief red flags at Sepang due to a mechanical at Turn 6, looks like it was for Dani Pedrosa.
Green lights on again.
08:44
LCR have confirmed that Somkiat Chantra won't join fellow rookies Fermin Aldeguer and Ai Ogura on track for day one.
Takaaki Nakagami is the only Honda rider to have been on track on Friday.
08:38
Pol Espargaro and KTM are back on top after the Spaniard joined Nakagami and Pedrosa in the 1m 59s.
08:25
The drizzle has passed and Dani Pedrosa and Michele Pirro are now back on track with an hour and a half of day one testing to go.
07:58
4pm at Sepang and the timing screens say 'drizzle on the track'.
07:52
Meanwhile, clouds are gathering overhead and it looks like it could rain (again) at anytime...
07:51
3:45pm and Takaaki Nakagami has put Honda on top with a 1m 59.888s, 0.038s quicker than KTM's Dani Pedrosa.
Nakagami has been the only Honda rider on track so far today and only began at lunchtime.
While most of the team management are absent from the start of the Shakedown due to tomorrow's Honda team launch in Indonesia, new technical director Romano Albesiano is here overseeing the day one activities.
07:41
Some images of the bikes on track today
07:35
Savadori heads out on a Jorge Martin Aprilia.#SepangShakedownpic.twitter.com/kKu5gitZFw
— Peter McLaren (@McLarenMotoGP) January 31, 2025
07:17
Lorenzo Savadori may be at the bottom of the timesheets but he's ridden six different RS-GPs so far today, checking the machines for the race riders ahead of next week's official test.
07:05
3pm at Sepang and Dani Pedrosa remains on top with the only 1m 59s lap. KTM test team-mate Pol Espargaro has closed the gap to 0.381s with HRC's Takaaki Nakagami in third.
05:57
Coming up to 2pm and Takaaki Nakagami decides conditions are good enough to head back out.
05:55
Pramac Yamaha's Miguel Oliveira has been in the paddock, but as mentioned the Yamaha race riders are not on track today due to this evening's team launch.
05:48
Rain spots at Sepang have sent all riders back to the pits, it's only very light drops at the moment and still sunny.
05:03
05:00
Nakagami and Dovizioso, both on all black bikes, are riding together, the Italian tucked in behind the Japanese,
04:53
...Make that second place for Nakagami. Quite an opening run!
04:51
Takaaki Nakagami wastes no time settling in, he's already up to 3rd on the timesheets.
04:46
12:45 and we have the first Honda on track, it's former racer and new factory HRC test rider Takaaki Nakagami.
04:42
Augusto Fernandez is also due to test for Yamaha at Sepang but only Dovi's pit board looks to have been in use so far.
04:40
He's not named on the timing screens (Yamaha is just using "Test Rider" for its machines) but Andrea Dovizioso has had a busy opening morning at the Sepang Shakedown, on track with with several bikes.
04:39
Some bikes are back on track, including reigning Moto2 champion Ogura, who climbs to second behind Dani Pedrosa (+0.9s).
