Pramac Yamaha being warmed up at the 2025 Sepang shakedown.
Pramac Yamaha being warmed up at the 2025 Sepang shakedown.

2025 Sepang MotoGP Shakedown Test - Day 2: LIVE

Live updates from Saturday’s second day of the 2025 Sepang MotoGP Shakedown test.

The Sepang Shakedown test is due to get busier on day two with the four Yamaha race riders joining the action, following last night’s 🐟team launch.

However, a damp track meant the circuit r⛄emained silent when testing officially began at 10am.

Rookie Somkiat Chantra was another notable absentee on Friday, when KTM test rider Pol Esparga♔ro was fastest from rooki🃏e and reigning Moto2 champion Ai Ogura. New HRC test rider Takaaki Nakagami in third.

Rookies, factory test riders and Honda a🔴nd Yamaha race riders are eligible for the Shakedown▨.

Bu🗹t factory Honda rid🌠ers Joan Mir and Luca Marini will not be present again today due to their team launch in Jakarta.

The official Sepang test, fe෴aturing all 2025 race riders, will take place from February 5-7.

10:14

Final (6pm) Day 2 lap times - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Click Here

10:09

6pm and Day 2 of the Shakedown ends with Yamaha's Alex Rins jumping to ꦛthe top by just 0.003s over KTM's Pol Espargaro in the closing minutes.

Fabio Quartararo made it two M1 riders in the top 3, with rookies Ai Ogura (Trackhouse) and Fermin Aldegueဣr (Gresini) an impressive 4th and 5th, followed by Jack Miller (Pramac).

Alex Rins, Sepang Shakedown, Day 2.
Alex Rins, Sepang Shakedown, Day 2.
09:30

Rookie💎 Ai Ogura posts his best lap of the test so far to move into 🎀second on the timing, 0.102s from Quartararo.

09:30

Yamaha said its plan for testing was to compare ༺the end of 2024 package 𝔉against a range of new 2025 parts.

Quartararo is evenly matched on both his bikes at the moment, with a (test leading) 1m 58.812s vs a 1m 59.139s on🙈 his other bike.

09:27

Rookie Fermin Aldeguer joins Fabio Quartararo in the 1m 58s: 5pm lap times - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:CLICK HERE

08:09

4pm, with 2 hours of testing to go, and Fabio Quartararo is o🔜n top for Monster Yamaha with the only 1m 58.812. He's the only rider in the 1m 58s so far this week but told wuqian0821.com yesterday evening that he'd like a 1m 56s by the end of testing...

Pol Espargaro (KTM), Ai Ogur📖a (Trackhouse Aprilia), Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati), Dani Pedrosa (KTM), Aleix Espargaro (Honda) and Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha) and Michele Pirro (Ducati) complete the top 8.

 

08:00

gets a good shot of the new KTM salad box and exhaust layout on track:

New KTM rear unit at Sepang Shakedown @hazrin
New KTM rear unit at Sepang Shakedown @hazrin
07:59

Aleix makes it three Hond🔥a riders on track today, after Takaaki Nakagami and Somkiat Chantra.

Chantra's L⛄CR Honda team-mate Johan𒀰n Zarco was a guest at last night's Pramac Yamaha launch (Pramac being his former team) but hasn't been riding today.

Factory Honda team-mates Joan Mir and Luca Marini are currently unveiling their new liv💟ery in Indonesia.

07:56

Aleix Esparg🐽aro is on track for HRC and - Update - has replaced Takaaki Nakagami on the timing screens, so is using Taka's test bikes.

07:50

Quartararo, riding in his new bright green 20 and helmet, is now the on🔯ly rider in the 1m 58s and sits first and second on the timesheets with his two bikes. Pol Espargaro next best for KTM (+0.454sℱ).

Fabio Quartararo, Day 2, 2025 Sepang Shakedown test
Fabio Quartararo, Day 2, 2025 Sepang Shakedown test
07:15

Update: Trackhouse has confirmed to wuqian0821.com that it was Ogura's bike that was brought back to the pits, but also that he didn't have an accident (so a techᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ issue).

07:13

Ogura remained fastest at 3pm, although his bike t♍hen appeared to be returned on a trailer.

Shortly after 3pm, Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo moved to🦋 the top with a 1m 59.139s, suggesting we should see laps in the 1m 58s by the end of today.

06:49

2:49pm local time and it's a rookie one-two with🦄 Trackh🥂ouse Aprilia's Ai Ogura 0.137s ahead of Gresini Ducati's Aldeguer.

05:47

Approaching 2pm local time and we've now had 13 riders on track, Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini) fastest from the KTMs of ꦬPol Espargaro and Dani Pedrosa.

Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo and Honda's Takaaki Nakagami are a♊lso in the 1♌m 59s.

05:24

Once again, the Yamaha test team are the only ones not to have rider names associated with their transponders, simply listing "Test Rider" for all of their bikes.

At present it's Andrea Dovizioso, who rode all of day 1, on track. But new test rider Augusto Fernandez is expected to 'debut' sometime today.

05:13

Quartararo's re꧟ign didn't last too long with Dani Pedrosa and then rookie Fermin Aꦜldeguer rising about the Frenchman.

Aldeguer has set a 1m 59.479s, ♊which is 0.6s quicker than he managed on day one.

05:00

Fa꧅bio Quartararo was൲tes no time, moving to the top on his opening run.

04:55

Rookie Somkiat Chantra fin𒈔ally completes his first MotoG⛎P laps of the year.

04:50

Approaching 1pm and rookies Fe✅rmin Aldeguer and Ai Ogura join the Saturday action.

Still no sign of LCR's Somkiat Chaꩲntra, who missed day 1.

04:48

Jack M♏iller pits after his 𒅌first laps of 2025 for Pramac Yamaha.

Jack Miller, Sepang Shakedown
Jack Miller, Sepang Shakedown
04:46

ꦗDay 1 leader Espargaro rises to second place but is currently 1.090s behind Nakagami.

04:41

Pol Esp⛦argaro becomes the 5th rider on trac💝k so far today.

04:34

12:30pm and Takaaki Nakagami is fastest for HRC with the first 1m 59s lap of th𒐪e day.

Pirro, Mille♐r and Dani Pedrosa are the others 🎃to have set a lap time.