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2025 Argentina MotoGP Practice Result: Marc Marquez Leads Ducati Charge

By David Emmett | Fri, 14/Mar/2025 - 19:03

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
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Interesting proposal by…

ben32
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5 days 12 hours ago
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Interesting proposal by Aprilia to test before a rider comes back from injury. Always feel disappointed for them when a team turn up and the rider can only do a few laps before retiring for the weekend. 

Full time rider misses three gps in a row can do a limited test day the week before a gp? I see many benefits for the teams from this idea.

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In reply to Interesting proposal by… by ben32

Funny how they didn't consider it "necessary"

Ibis117
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for Diggia, Marc, Joan, Miguel, both Alexes (R&M) and Enea in just the past two seasons.

 

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Judging by how well Bez and…

WaveyD1974
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5 days 11 hours ago
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Judging by how well Bez and Ogura are doing, remembering how many no scores Pecco took last year, why are so many people writing Martin off ? 

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In reply to Judging by how well Bez and… by WaveyD1974

They’re writing him off (for…

Jeff Lebowski
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They’re writing him off (for the title) because MM93 is now on the best bike on the grid and fully fit.

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