"A perfect Saturday" for Marc Marqu🍒ez, he tells Jack Appleyard - hard to argue after a pole position and Sprint victory. Hard to see him being stopped tomorrow over 26 laps.

Alex Marquez tells Jack Appleyard in his podium interview th🌼at second was his target before the Sprint, and that he knew winning would be difficult when he ended the first lap behind M. Marquez.

Bagnaia blames his relative lack of pace on the same feeling in the Sprint that he had last year and a lack of confidencཧe on corner entry. Says he backed off a bit when he realised chasing the Marquez brothers was too risky.

The best𝕴 KTM was Pedro Acosta in 6th place, but he never had the pace of the five in front of him.

Fabio 𓂃Quartararo was the best Yamaha in 7th, and Joan Mir scored a 𝐆point in ninth for Honda.

It's vict♐ory on debut for Marc Marquez on the factory Ducati, and a second ever Sprint win here in Thailand.

Alex Marquez takes second, ahead of Bagnaℱia who rounds out the podium. Ogura takes a solid fourth, and Morbidelli rounꦐds out the top-five.

Onto the final lap now and M. Marquez now leads by over 1.5s from A.𝄹 Marquez. Two seconds back then to Bagnaia, who is maintaining a gap of arou😼nd 0.8s to Ogura, who has been exceptional in this.

F𓂃abio Di Giannantonio has slowed and looks to be retiring. He was looking down at th🦩e dashboard so perhaps a mechanical for the Italian.

Spreading out at the front 🍸properly now. Over a second between 1-2-3-4 now, and yet another all-Ducati podium looks fairly nailed on at this point. Still four to go, thougꦅh.

Better lap for A. Marquez there, got the gap to M. Marquez back to 1.1s, and he was marginally faster than Bagnai💙a.

Pace starting to drop for everyone and mostly for Ogura🉐, who had a big rear slide entering turn one that lap and has dropped over 0.5s now behind Bagnaia, who was 𒅌almost 0.2s faster than A. Marquez - but the gap between them is still over 1s.

Jack Miller has crashed o😼ut at t꧂urn eight. He's up and okay.

M. Marquez's lead up to one second now. A. Marquez, Bagnaia, and Ogura all 30.2 that💧 lap.

Bagnaia's pace has definitely improved and it's another 1:30.2 on that lap for him, but the two Marquez brothers are 30.0. Ogura still matching Bagnaia's pace and definitely has a𝄹 shot at the podium here!

Better 🌜lap foওr Bagnaia there, all the top three did low-1:30s, but he's now 2s off the lead and 1.2s behind A. Marquez. Ogura still there behind him, too.

Another🅺 0.3s dropped bꦐy Bagnaia to Alex Marquez that lap. The gap between the front two now up to 0.6, too.

Bagnaia dropped half-a-second to the two ahead of him on that second lap. Not a great start for the #63whowas fairly optimistic abouthis race pace after qualifying.

M. Marquez already checking out ജat the front ahead of his brother, Bagnaia there in third but under pressure from Ogura in fourth place.

Awful start for Bezzecchi, he spun on 🎀the line and is 17th.

We're underway in Thailand and it's a holeshot for Marc Mar🅷quez.

Bagnaia passed Alex Marquezℱ into turn one, but they swapped again on the exit.

The Warm Up lap is underway now in Thailand.

J🌳ust a couple of minutes rem🌸aining now before the warm-up lap gets underway.

Given the performance he has displayed this weekend, it's difficult to see anyone beating Marc Marquez, but as usual the start will be critical,🐻 and the battle for the podium behind is tough to call.

10 mi🍌nutes to go now until the start of the Sprint.

Both Franco Morbidelli and Somkiat Chantra have picked up grid penalties this weekend for impeding othe๊r riders in Practice yesterday, but the penalties only affect the Grand Prix and not the Sprint; therefore Morbidelli will start the Sprint sixth, and Chantra 21st for his first premier class race.

Pit lane has opened in Buriram and the riders ar🉐e heading to the grid now on t♌he sighting lap.

꧂It's fairly warm ahead of this one: 37C air temperature and 58C track temperature.

This will make tyre management key, not only about wear but also how you get through the fi🍬rst couple🦂 of laps and the degree of traffic you find yourself in. After the opening stages, rising temperatures and pressures will make overtaking increasingly difficult.

Welcome back to live coverage of this weekend's MotoGP Thai Grand Prix and of the first race of the year witꦜh the Sprint here ♓in Buriram.

Marc Marquez starts from pole position after a messy Q2, with Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia joining him on t💦he front row.

Report: Marc Marquez beats Alex for Thai MotoGP pole: “Now it’s the important part”