2025 Spanish MotoGP: Sprint As It Happened

With air temperature at 25C and track temperature at 45C, you would anticipate that front tyre temperature and pressure will be a real deciding factor here. Track position will be key.

After they both exited a closed pit lane in Q2, both Alex and Marc Marquez received 2,000-euro fines after qualifying. Alex Marquez also had his first lap from Q2 deleted, but still starts fourth today. Marc avoided sporting penalties because he stopped when he saw that the light was red, whereas Alex did not stop.

Yamaha Motor Racing MD Paolo Pavesio tells the world feed that "dreaming is for free" when asked if Yamaha can win this Sprint.

"Pole position was maybe a dream and we got it. Fabio [Quartararo] will do his best, let's see what the race will bring."

Davide Tardozzi says Bagnaia and Marquez need to overtake Quartararo "as soon as possible".

If Quartararo "has the opportunity to lead the race, he can make is own line, I think that he will be very tough to beat," the Ducati Lenovo team manager tells the international TV feed.

The riders are off on their sighting lap, and we're now less than 15 minutes away from the Sprint getting underway in Spain.

Alex Rins was another crasher this morning in FP2. He crashed twice, in fact, first at turn six and then at the much faster turn four.

Rins posted footage of his FP2 crash on Instagram, and confirmed he will take part in the Sprint. He will start last having set only one lap in qualifying this morning.

The international TV feed just now reporting that Pedro Acosta, who crashed at the final corner in FP2 this morning and will start 12th, only has one bike available in the Sprint.

Bagnaia and Franco Morbidelli, who will start from fifth this afternoon, also crashed in FP2 and only had one bike each available in qualifying, have both bikes available this afternoon.

Flag-to-flag conditions are not expected, in fact the conditions in Jerez are close to perfect, but any technical issues for Acosta on the grid this afternoon could be especially problematic with only one bike available.

While it's Quartararo on pole in Jerez, it's the two factory Ducati riders alongside him on the front row, with Marc Marquez in second and Francesco Bagnaia third.

Those two were the protagonists of one of the best head-to-head battles we saw in 2024 here in Jerez, so with them starting next to each other today we could be set for another strong battle between the two.

So far this weekend, though, it's been Marquez who has had the superior pace.

Fabio Quartararo starts on pole for this one after his first pole position since the 2022 Indonesian GP.

That, of course, means that this will be the first time Quartararo has started on pole for a Sprint.

The French rider also became the first rider other than Marc Marquez – who qualified second this morning – to take pole position this year, and therefore the first non-Ducati rider to take pole in 2025.

Quartararo is also now the first non-Ducati rider to start from the front row this year at two different circuits (his compatriot, Honda’s Johann Zarco, has started from the front row once, at the Argentinian Grand Prix).

Welcome back to live coverage of today's action from the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix.

This weekend's MotoGP Sprint will be coming up in just under 30 minutes at 15:00 local time.

1134 days since Quartararo's last pole at Indonesia 2022. What a performance from him, the next best Yamaha is Miller 14th.

Riders still on laps but no one improving. That's pole position for Fabio Quartararo, which is quite extraordinary. Marc Marquez second and Bagnaia takes third place. 

Alex Marquez off the front row for the first time this season in fourth, ahead of Morbidelli and Vinales.

Aldeguer seventh, Di Giannantonio 0.444s behind the other GP25s in eighth, and Mir rounds out the third row.

Zarco, Bezzecchi, and Acosta on row four.

Quartararo flying again, and he takes pole! A 1:35.610 puts him 0.033s clear of Marquez!

Alex Marquez was under the pole time after two splits but he's bailed out of it.

Quartararo breaks that Ducati top-five lockout and goes second on the Yamaha, what a lap!

Bagnaia onto the front row in second place with the first lap of his second run. He's just a tenth away from Marquez, who didn't improve on his lap.

Alex Marquez improved, too, just 0.003s behind Bagnaia.

Also, Aldeguer goes fifth. All-Ducati top-five now.

Bagnaia and Bezzecchi the first riders to go out for their second runs, Zarco and the Marquezes heading out now too, as well as Mir.

Bagnaia, who with only one bike available was probably managing some risk on his first run, is fifth and 0.540 behind his factory Ducati teammate at present. Some work to do for him on the second run to get onto the front row.

Morbidelli has moved up to third and bumped Quartararo to fourth, and the French rider can't respond in his second lap.

A solid lap from Quartararo briefly puts him second, but he's bumped to third by Alex Marquez who moves to within a couple of tenths of his brother.