10:07
The 15-minute pr🌼actice start period is now underway, with team members and fans flocking to the start-finish line.
Johann Zarco defies his holeshot device to pull a big wheelie all a♋lon♔g the main 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 Ogura, Fermin Aldeguer and Somkiꦐat Chantra, 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 eligible for the shak༺edown🧜, but did not take part.
The trio, pl👍us the likes of reigning champion Jorge Martin and new Ducati Lenovo ri🙈der Marc Marquez, will be riding a MotoGP bike for the first time since Barcelona last November.
Just five days of official pre-season testing – three at S⛎epang, ꦛthen 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, followed by p🌊ractice starts…
04 Feb 2025
10:01
Day 1 of testing ends with Fabio Quartaꦍraro ahead of༺ Marc Marquez, Alex Marquez, Fermin Aldeguer, Franco Morbidelli and Joan Mir.
10:00
Marc Marquez puts in a late attack to 🔥take second place, j🃏ust 0.051s behind Fabio Quartararo.
09:36
Into the last 25mins of day one and Mir has impressed by taking ꧂over 5th for Honda.
Top 4 stiꦛll Quartararo, A.Marquez, Aldeguer, Morbidelli.
09:28
Raul Fernandez's Sepang test is offici🉐ally over.
Trackhouse confirm he is going to fly back to Spa🐷in tonight after fracturing a metacarpa💜l bone in his left hand.
09:25
Quartararo is posting red s𒈔ectors, he only needs 0.016s to reclaim the top spot from Alex Marquez.... he finds 0.2s and retakes P1 for﷽ Yamaha.
09:21
40mins to go on day one of the Official t🧸est and it's still Alex Marquez on top with the Ducati GP24 from Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo and Gresini team-mate Fermin Aldeguer.
Joan Mir has jꦏust made it two Hondas in the top te💜n, with Johann Zarco leading the RC213V challenge in 7th.
09:05
An🦩other personal best by di Gian൩nantonio, he's now 6th fastest, just behind Marc Marquez.
Impressive from the young ꦆItalian 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 Giannanton♎io is putting in his best laps of the day and breaks into t༺he top ten.
The GP25s are now 5th (Marc Ma🌜rquez), 9th (Fabio di Giannantonio) and 15th (Francesco Bag🦄naia).
08:59
Top 8 with an hour of testing to go: A.Mar😼quez, Quartararo, Aldeguer, Morbidelli, M.Marquez, Zarco, Miller, Acosta.
08:58
Morbidelli follows it up with another personal best lap, but remains in 🐓4th (+0.376s).
08:56
Another GP2💛4 is on the 𒀰attack: Franco Morbidelli.
The new VR46 rider slots into ♎4th place, meaning Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo (2nd) is now the only n💫on-GP24 in the top 4!
08:52
Johann Zarco puts Honda into fifth place and is just over💦 half-a-second from Al༒ex Marquez.
08:47
Oꩵver at Aprilia, now down to just 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 speed by posting the fastest opening sector of the day on his GP24. The rest of the lap isn't quite🍎 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 flash🍃ing up for Pedro Acosta and Fermin Aldeguer, but they remain 5th and 7th respec൲tively.
08:39
Some test-b🍰est sectors by a Marquez - but it's Alex, not Marc.&n🐟bsp;
Alex, 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 Mo🌳rbideꩵlli at Turn 6. Rider OK'
08:32
These ar♔e💞 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
Maverick Vinales sets his four best sectors... and rise🐻s from 14th to 9th for Tech3 KTM.
08:29
Another 'Fernandez' has crashed, this time it'♛s Yamaha test rider Augusto, at Tur🍌n 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), Francesco Bagnaia 12th ♏(+1.193s), Fabio di Giannantonio 18th (1.782s) after his earlier fall.
