The final 2025 MotoGP pre-season test began on Wednesday morning at Buri🌊ram in Thailand.
Gresini’s Alex Marquez put the Ducati GP24 on top last week at Sepang and, having also been fastest at November’s Barcelona test, has the chance to comp▨lete a winter clean sweep.
Meanwhile, the factory Ducati team of brother Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia have some big decisions to make over engine choice for the new 𝄹GP25, with the engines of all European bik🅰es frozen from round one until the end of 2026.
Fabi🎃o Quartararo and Yamaha stepped up to occupy best of the rest behind Ducati at Sepang but, having benefitted from extra track time at the Shakedown, can they keep pace on an equal playing field at Buriram?
Honda is the only manufacturer with prior 2025 MotoGP laps of the Chang International Circuit, co😼urtesy of a private test in January with Aleix Espargaro and Takaaki Nakagami.
Absent this week will be Aprilia’s new signing and reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin and VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio who were both injured at Sepaꦚng. Raul Fernandez, also injured on the first day in Malaysia, will try to ride in Buriram.
Testing at Buriram takes place from 10am to ൩6pm, followed by practice starts, on Wednesday and Thursday.
Woah! Marc Marquez plays his cards right at the end, setting best-of-the-day times in all four sect💙ors to blast 0.465s clear🔴 of the field, led by brother Alex.
To 🅘put that advantage into context, 0.4s covers the rﷺest of the top ten!
The ꦦbig question now is what bike configurat♛ion Marc Marquez is using...
Franco Morbidelli underlines why Ducati are seriousl🍎y considering keeping the GP24 engine for the factory GP25s by moving i🔯nto 4th place behind Alex Marquez, Marc Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi.
Aft𝔍er Pedro Acosta's earlier spill, Brad Binder's timing has now also 'frozen' in the final sector, suggesting he too has fallen.
Zarco isn't the only Honda rider making strides up the order, Joan Mir is now into 11th, repeating a trend from the Sepang t✃est where the RC213V seemed to be much improved in a time attack configuration.
LCR Honda's Johann Zarco puts down four personal best sectors and is rewarded with sixth on ꧋the timesheets, just 0.3♒12s from Alex Marquez and directly behind HRC's Luca Marini.
Alex Rins makes it three Yamahas in a row by splitting Miller and Quartararo 💦for 10th place. Miller's team-mate Miguel Oliveira is 15th.
The top ten with 30-minutes of day 1 to go:
1. Alex Marquez, 2. Marc Marquez, 3. Marco Bezzecchi, 4. Pedro Acos⭕ta, 5. Luca Marini, 6. Franco Morbidelli, 7. Francesc✃o Bagnaia, 8. Brad Binder, 9. Jack Miller, 10. Fabio Quartararo.
Binder delivers four personal best sectors and climbs another place, t🌠o 8th, at Jack Miller's expen♊se.
KTM's Brad Binder improves by one place, to 9th, and looks to be on another hot lap with a🌳 best yet openingꦕ sector.
Fabioಞ Quartararꦍo, currently 9th and directly behind the top M1 of Jack Miller, looks to be done for the day as he's speaking to the trackside media at 5:40pm.
For comparison, test leader Alex Marquez is only a fraction behind his qua✅lifying time (for ninth on the grid) in last October's grand prix.
Howevꦍer Francesco Bagnaia, on pole♓ for that event, is presently +1.3s slower than his Q2 time.
Official temp data is still saying a scorching 35 degrees but the track is steadilyᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ cooling from its peak of 52 degrees earlier in the afternoon to 38 degrees now.
5pm Results - 2025 Buriram MotoGP Test (Day 1)
The final hour begins...
Looks like KTM'sꦜ Pedro Acosta, 4😼th on the timesheets, has fallen somewhere in the final sector. His lap time is not updating beyond sector 3.
The combined top ten with ꦫjust over an hour of Wednesday testing to 🔯go:
1. Alex Marquez, 2. Marc Marquez, 3. Marco Bezzecchi, 4. Pedro Acosta, 5. Luca Marini, 6. Franco Morbidelli, 7. Fra🍌ncesco Bagnaia, 8. Jack Miller, 9. Fabio Quartararo, 10. B💯rad Binder.
Francesco Bagnaia r🧜ises to 7th place, 0.379s from Alex Marquez. The slightly cooler track surface means we'r𒀰e also seeing some personal best sectors from the likes of Marc Marquez and Joan Mir.
1 hour and 20mins to go on day🎃 one and new Tech3 riders Enea Bastianini and Maverick Vinales are again lodged near the bottom of the timesheets in 18th and 19th.
The injure🔯d Raul Fernandez is just ahead of them, with only rookie Somkiat Chantra and Aprilia test rider Lorenzo Savadori behind the Tech3 riders.
Fabio Quartararo makes it two Yamahas in the🃏 combined top eight, just behind Miller and 0.584s from Alex Marquez.
Fastest rider by brand:
Alex Marquez (Ducati) 1st
Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) 3rd
Pedro Acosta (KTM) 4th
Jack Miller (Yamaha) 7th
Johann Zarco (Honda) 12th
🐻The air temperature is still reading 35 degrees, at 4:20pm, but the track temperature has at least dropped to 40 degrees (from a peak of 52)ꦆ.
Marc Marquez sets his 💛fastest lap time of the day to slot into second place, 0.126s behind brother Alex. But is he on a GP24 or a GP25? Hopefully, we'll find out later, but the factory Ducati riders might well be vague about the exact mix of parts they are using.
If they do step back to the GP24, it would echo the move made at the start of 2022, when then factไory Ducati riders Francesco Bagnaia and Jack Miller made a last-minute switch from the GP22 to a GP21-style engine.
The GP21 m🌞ight not have won the championship but is still considered by many to be Ducati's best all-round MotoGP bike, a status that could be challenged by the GP24.
Pedro Acosta (KTM) has set the highest top speed of the day so far with 337.5km/h. Francesco ℱBagnaia (Ducati) and Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) are tied on 336.4km/h.
The top Yamaha is Fabi♉o Quartararo (334.3km/h) with Honda, whose new engine is known t💎o lack raw power, at the tail end of the charts with 331.2km/h (Joan Mir).
4pm Results - 2025 Buriram MotoGP Test (Day 1)
Two hours of Wednesday testing to go...
Pramac Yamaha's Jack Miller is another improver, he's now into 6th on the combined day 1 times as the♈ leading M1 rider. Fabio Quartararo is next besౠt Yamaha in 11th.
