10:07
The 15-minute practice start 𝓡period is now underway, with team members and fans flocking to the start-finish li💮ne.
Johann Zarco defies his holeshot device to pull a big wheelie all along the m🦹a✱in straight!
Marc Marquez, 2025 Sepang MotoGP test
2025 Official Sepang MotoGP Test - Day 1 as it happened
Recap Wednesday’s opening day of the 2025 Official Sepang MotoGP test.
The full MotoGP rider line-up takes to the track for the first time in 2025 during ༒the Official Sepang test from Wednesday to Friday.
Rookies Ai Ogur✱a, Fermin Aldeguer and Somkiat Chant💞ra, factory test riders and full-time race riders from Yamaha took part in a three-day Shakedown test at the Malaysian circuit over the weekend.
The other Honda race riders aside from Chantra (Joan Mir, Luca Marini and Johann Zarco) were also eligꦅible for the shakedown, but did not take part.
The trio, plus the likes of reigning champion Jorge Martin aဣnd new Ducati Lenovo rider Marc Marquez, will be riding a MotoGP bike for the first time since Barcelona last November.
Just five days of official pre-season test𝕴ing – three at Sepang, then two at Buriram – are available before the start of the 2025 MotoGP season in Thailand on February 28.
Testing at Sepang takes place from 10am to 6pm, f🌄ollowed by practice starts…
04 Feb 2025
10:01
Day 1 of testing ends with Fabio Quartararo ahead of Marc Marquez, Alex Marquez, Fermin Aldegue𓃲r, F🍰ranco Morbidelli and Joan Mir.
10:00
Marc Marquez puts in a late attack to𝓀 take second place, just 0.051s behind Fabio Quartar♉aro.
09:36
Into the last 25mins of day one and Mir has impressed by𝄹 taking over 5th forཧ Honda.
Top♛ 4 still Quartararo, ▨A.Marquez, Aldeguer, Morbidelli.
09:28
Raul Fernandez's Sepang test is officially ove�ജ�r.
Trackhouse confirm he is going to fly back to Spain tonight after fracturing a metacarpal bone in hisꦏ left hand.
09:25
Quartararo is posting red sectors, he only needs 0.016s to reclaim the top spot fr🧔om Alex Marquez.... he finds 0.2s and retakes P1 for Yamaha.
09:21
40mins to go on day one of the Offic🌃ial test and it's still Alex Marquez on top with the Ducati GP24 from Yamaha's Fabio ꦫQuartararo and Gresini team-mate Fermin Aldeguer.
Joan Mir has just ma𒐪de it two Hondas in the top ten, with Johann Zarco leading the RC213V challenge in 7th.
09:05
Another 🥃personal best by di Giannantonio, he's now 6th fastest, just behind Marc Marquez.
Impressive🍸 from the young Italian who is riding a MotoGP bike for the first time since last October Thai Grand Prix and wasn't sure how his healing shoulder would hold up in terms of endurance.
09:03
Fabio di Giannantonio is putting in his best laps of the day and bre🥃aks into the top ten.
The GP25s are now 5th (Marc Marquez), 9th (Fa💜bio di Giannanto༺nio) and 15th (Francesco Bagnaia).
08:59
Top 8 withไ an🃏 hour of testing to go: A.Marquez, Quartararo, Aldeguer, Morbidelli, M.Marquez, Zarco, Miller, Acosta.
08:58
Morbidelli follows it up with another personal best lap, but remains in 4𝐆th (+0.37﷽6s).
08:56
Another GP24 is on the attack: Franco Morbidell💛i.
T𝓡he new VR46 rider slots into 4th place, meaning Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo (2nd) is now the only non-GP24 in the top 4!
08:52
Johann Zarco puts Honda into fifth place and is just over half-a-second fr꧒om Alex Marquez.
08:47
Over at Aprilia, now dowꩲn to just൲ two of their 2025 race riders, it's Ai Ogura in 10th as the best RS-GP with Marco Bezzecchi in 15th.
08:45
Rookie Aldeguer backs up Alex Marquez's sp🐽eed by posting the fastest opening sector of the day on his GP24. The rest of the lap isn't qu🌠ite as good but he still climbs from 7th to 3rd.
08:42
Just under an hour and a half to go and the orange (personal best) sectors are flashing up for Pedro Acosta and Fermin Aldeguer, but the💫y remain 5th and 7th respectively.
08:39
Some test-best✃ sectors by a Marquez - but it's Alex, not Marc.
Al𓂃ex, quickest last November in Barcelona, finally topples Fabio Quartararo from P1 by just 0.016s with his Gresini GP24.
08:33
Info from VR46: 'Crash for Franky Morbidelli꧅ at Turn 6. Rider OK'
08:32
These are the fastest🍒 riders NOT to have ridden ♐at the Shakedown test:
Marc Marquez (2nd)
Pedro Acosta (4th)
Alex Marquez (5th)
Franco Morbidelli (7th)
Maverick Vinales (9th).
08:31
Mav༺erick Vinales sets his four best sectors... and rises from 14th to 9th for Tech3 KTM.
08:29
Another 'Fernandez' has crashed, this 🌠time it's Yamaha test rider Augusto, at Turn 9. '﷽Rider OK'.
08:28
Jack Miller (6th) is also setting some best sectors, the new Pramac Yamaha rider takes ♔an all-black M1 to third on the timesheets (+0.622s).
08:25
So, GP25 check: Marc Marquez 2nd (+0.506s), Fra꧑ncesco Bagnaia 12th (+1.193s), Fabio di 💜Giannantonio 18th (1.782s) after his earlier fall.
