2025 Argentina MotoGP Practice Result: Marc Marquez Leads Ducati Charge

Marc Marquez has topped the timed practice session for the MotoGP class, smashing his own lap record and removing one of the last mementos of the Bridgestone era. The Ducati Lenovo rider was fast throughout the session, got close to his old record on used tires, then took nearly four tenths off the record on his time attack.

Fabio Di Giannantonio took second spot on the Pertamina VR46 Ducati, following the group chasing Marquez around on his final run and jumping up into the top 10, a tenth of a second off the time of Marquez. Alex Marquez was third quickest, the Gresini Ducati rider continuing his run of form from Buriram at one of his stronger tracks.

Marco Bezzecchi was the first non Ducati, the factory Aprilia rider showing good pace and ending the session as fourth quickest. Brad Binder was the fastest KTM, the Red Bull Factory Racing rider fifth fastest and a quarter of a second slower than Marc Marquez. Alex Rins was sixth quickest, the Monster Energy Yamaha rider very smartly using a tow from Marc Marquez to find some missing pace, and end a fraction slower than Binder.

Johan Zarco was the first and only Honda in the top 10, though both Joan Mir and Luca Marini got close at times. The LCR Honda rider ended the session in seventh, ahead of the other factory Yamaha of Fabio Quartararo. The 2021 champion followed his teammate's lead of getting a tow from a Ducati, though Quartararo chose Bagnaia instead of Marquez. It paid off, despite Bagnaia crashing out at Turn 2 on a hot lap.

Pedro Acosta made it two factory KTMs in the top ten, the Spaniard ending the session in ninth, just ahead of Bagnaia, who was lucky to hold onto the final spot in Q2. The Ducati Lenovo rider's 2025 season is off to a rocky start, but at least he won't have the hell of Q1 to get through.

Trackhouse Racing's remarkable rookie Ai Ogura ended timed practice in 11th, the first rider to miss out on Q2, and only by a couple of hundredths of a second. It was Di Giannantonio's lap that pushed him out of Q2, though the satellite Aprilia rider will surely be happy with his day. There were a bunch of riders who narrowly missed out on Q2, including the factory Honda HRC Castrol riders Joan Mir, Luca Marini, the impressive Pramac rider Jack Miller, and the second Pertamina VR46 rider Franco Morbidelli.

Results:

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Diff	Prev
1	93	Marc Marquez	Ducati	01:37.295
2	49	Fabio Di Giannantonio	Ducati	01:37.430	0.135	0.135
3	73	Alex Marquez	Ducati	01:37.496	0.201	0.066
4	72	Marco Bezzecchi	Aprilia	01:37.510	0.215	0.014
5	33	Brad Binder	KTM	01:37.546	0.251	0.036
6	42	Alex Rins	Yamaha	01:37.591	0.296	0.045
7	5	Johann Zarco	Honda	01:37.685	0.390	0.094
8	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	01:37.818	0.523	0.133
9	37	Pedro Acosta	KTM	01:37.827	0.532	0.009
10	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	01:37.834	0.539	0.007
11	79	Ai Ogura	Aprilia	01:37.855	0.560	0.021
12	21	Franco Morbidelli	Ducati	01:37.931	0.636	0.076
13	36	Joan Mir	Honda	01:37.975	0.680	0.044
14	43	Jack Miller	Yamaha	01:38.058	0.763	0.083
15	10	Luca Marini	Honda	01:38.136	0.841	0.078
16	12	Maverick Viñales	KTM	01:38.315	1.020	0.179
17	54	Fermin Aldeguer	Ducati	01:38.347	1.052	0.032
18	88	Miguel Oliveira	Yamaha	01:38.649	1.354	0.302
19	35	Somkiat Chantra	Honda	01:38.651	1.356	0.002
20	25	Raul Fernandez	Aprilia	01:38.746	1.451	0.095
21	23	Enea Bastianini	KTM	01:38.785	1.490	0.039
22	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	01:39.076	1.781	0.291