Fabio Quartararo, 2025 MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Fabio Quartararo, 2025 MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2025 Spanish MotoGP: Sprint As It Happened

Live coverage of today's Sprint from the 2025 Spanish MotoGP.

A lap record from Fabio Quartararo means the Frenchman will start today's MotoGP Sprint from pole position, with the 13-lap race coming up at 15:00 local time.

Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia start alongside him on the front row, with Alex Marquez heading up the second row from Franco Morbidelli and Maverick Vinales.

26 Apr 2025
09:40

Bagnaia is back in the paddock and in the Ducati truck for a change of leathers ahead of qualifying.

09:40

Rins has crashed again, another one at turn four and again seemingly for tyre temperature. That could also be a red flag for the air fences it seems.

09:38

Bagnaia's crashed at turn seven. Might be another red flag for air fences here. The Italian is okay after that one and returning to the pits.

Like Morbidelli's for Bagnaia, possibly front tyre temperature.

09:36

By the way, the red flag means that Q1 will now start at 10:55 rather than the originally planned 10:50.

09:36

Acosta heading back out on his second bike. Most riders heading out for what will presumably be their final runs now with less than 10 minutes left on the clock in FP2.

09:32

Acosta's just obliterated a KTM at the final corner. Just lost the front on entry but a fair amount of debris being flung off the #37 machine as itdug into the gravel.

09:31

Quartararo now fastest and into the 1:36s on a 36.983.

09:30

Morbidelli back out on track now and going full divebomb on Chantra at turn six.

09:28

Bezzecchi up to sixth on a 1:37.296. Quartararo going well, too, and pops up to second on a 37.058

09:27

Bagnaia also down to a 1:37.0 on his latest lap, within a tenth of his teammate. Equal tyre age for the pair of them, too.

09:26

Marc Marquez to the top now on a 1:37.002.

09:25

Rins has crashed at turn six but looks okay. Some reports yesterday from the riders suggesting that track conditions in that corner had been affected by the flooding that happened at the Andalusian circuit a few weeks ago.

09:23

Bagnaia down to a 1:37.1 with his first lap post-red flag, he leads by just under 0.5s over Quartararo.

09:22

Morbidelli is back in the VR46 box and looking ready to head back out, which is positive.

09:21

TV feed showing replays of Morbidelli's crash from the CCTV camera. Both Morbidelli and the bike reached the barrier in that one at turn four, the Italian just losing the front as he turned in - looked like a cold tyre.

09:20

Pit lane is open again and we are back underway for the final 26 minutes of FP2.

09:18

Only a few riders got laps in before the red flag, but Bagnaia is currently top of the times ahead of Aleix Espargaro.

Session will resume at 10:19 local time, so in about a minute.

09:15

Red flag is out in Jerez, presumably for the air fences where Morbidelli crashed. 

09:14

Franco Morbidelli has crashed at turn four early on here. He has walked away and seems okay.

09:10

Pit lane is open in Jerez and we are underway for 30 minutes of FP2.

09:05

Just over five minutes away from FP2, which as ever is worth nothing material, but useful for trying race tyres and finding progression on used rubber.

08:57

Moto2 FP2 has just concluded in Jerez and we're just under a 15 minutes away from MotoGP's final free practice session ahead of qualifying.

08:56

Alex Marquez crashed twice yesterday, including a fairly big one at turn five. But the Spaniard also topped both Friday sessions, including a lap record and the first-ever sub-1:36 lap for a MotoGP bike at Jerez.

It's the kind of speed that could make Marquez the favourite for pole position, but Francesco Bagnaia was less than a tenth-of-a-second behind him in Practice, and of course you can never discount Marc Marquez, who was fourth-fastest yesterday, either.

08:51

Welcome to live coverage of today's action from the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez.

FP2 will be getting underway in around 20 minutes, with qualifying coming up shortly after.