2025 Buriram MotoGP Test Day 2 4pm Times: Bezzecchi Quickest In Race Simulation Session

By David Emmett |

At 3pm in Buriram, a large chunk of the grid was out running race simulations, at the same time as the actual race is set to be held in two weeks time. As such, the times currently being posted are not as fast as this morning, but they do more accurately reflect race pace. 

Marc Marquez ran a full race simulation of 24 laps, with a couple of laps in the high 1'29s, then consistently in the low to mid 1'30s. Though the race last year was wet, that kind of pace is very close to the podium pace in last year's sprint race, suggesting Marquez has made a good adaptation to the factory GP24 (the bike Ducati will be running for the next two seasons).

Marco Bezzecchi did a sprint race simulation on the Aprilia and was easily quicker than he was last year during the sprint race on the Ducati GP23. Fabio Quartararo and Joan Mir also put in impressive sprint race simulations.

With two hours of the test left, some riders are still running race or sprint simulations, and waiting until the track cools a little to chase a hot lap. Pecco Bagnaia is still working on setup, the factory Ducati rider clearly not comfortable on the bike yet. He has two hours to fix the last details.

Times from the afternoon session at 4pm:

Pos No. Rider Bike Time Diff Prev
1 72 Marco Bezzecchi Aprilia 1'29.632    
2 93 Marc Marquez Ducati 1'29.811 0.179 0.179
3 20 Fabio Quartararo Yamaha 1'30.029 0.397 0.218
4 36 Joan Mir Honda 1'30.071 0.439 0.042
5 73 Alex Marquez Ducati 1'30.203 0.571 0.132
6 79 Ai Ogura Aprilia 1'30.376 0.744 0.173
7 43 Jack Miller Yamaha 1'30.392 0.760 0.016
8 21 Franco Morbidelli Ducati 1'30.417 0.785 0.025
9 63 Francesco Bagnaia Ducati 1'30.417 0.785  
10 37 Pedro Acosta KTM 1'30.609 0.977 0.192
11 25 Raul Fernandez Aprilia 1'30.682 1.050 0.073
12 33 Brad Binder KTM 1'30.726 1.094 0.044
13 54 Fermin Aldeguer Ducati 1'30.797 1.165 0.071
14 10 Luca Marini Honda 1'30.856 1.224 0.059
15 5 Johann Zarco Honda 1'30.903 1.271 0.047
16 35 Somkiat Chantra Honda 1'30.903 1.271  
17 88 Miguel Oliveira Yamaha 1'31.217 1.585 0.314
18 32 Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia 1'31.539 1.907 0.322
19 12 Maverick Viñales KTM 1'31.871 2.239 0.332
20 23 Enea Bastianini KTM 1'31.981 2.349 0.110
No time set
  42 Alex Rins Yamaha      
2025
MotoGP
Buriram, Thailand
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Comments

Faaaar too soon to make any quantifiable predictions……but who wouldn’t love to see this sort of order flow into the season?

Aprilia 

Ducati

Yamaha

Honda

Worth a bet….? You’d get some long odds! (For good reason, lol)

@749R I’m impressed that you’ve already written off or forgotten KTM. From my dirt bike days I have hope for them but they always seem to be missing something. Tech 3 seems even more behind. They need new team shirts with Keep Trying Mate across the back.

…. but even that may be overstating their prospects? 
What say you to the odds of them continuing into 2026? 
Surely investors would see Motogp as a luxury not a necessity? 
I’d love to know their sales breakdown: chook chasers vs road bikes. My (dodgy!) impression is they’d sell 2 chook chaser’s for every road bike? And it’s not like they even have a “proper” sportsbiike in the line up so at face value it seems a hard sell. 
But then a halo is a halo even if it doesn’t fit as well as you’d like.

…no, simply relaying the fastest times of the moment.

I would love nothing more than to see Acosta running amok on an RC16, feel like we/he, are being robbed of seeing his true talent as things stand. On a Ducati of any iteration he would be challenging for the championship.

Just to be a bore and pour yellow water on the parade...it really is just testing. They don't have to produce top lap times. If they can do the work without risking 'it' then that would be better. Seems they like to try though and an outright lap time/race pace run is good feedback but it's no race weekend. Take poor Pecco for example. Turns up, day 1 a mess and that's hello Q1 (not unusual for him). Ogura's day 2 was good but his day 1 wasn't, hello Q1 (hoorah for Zarco). Add in a Fabio or two and that's that, grid P12 or worse. Sprint, zero points. Sunday, pffff maybe a couple ?  On the race weekend they need to be 'on it' in the second session. However, maybe they could have gone faster at any point in either test but they don't need to. Zero points won or lost.