17:01
Alex Marquez takes the lap record with a 1:57.295.
Acosta 10th with his last lap.
Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP British Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose
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2025 British MotoGP: Friday practice As It Happened
Live text coverage of Friday practice at the 2025 MotoGP British Grand Prix
The seventh round of the 2025 MotoGP season takes place at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix.
After six rounds, Marc Marquez leads the championship by 22 points after taking an important second-place finish last time out in the wet French Grand Prix.
The factory Ducati rider comes to Silverstone chasing his first victory at the UK venue since 2014, but believes he faces stiff competition from his younger brother Alex Marquez on the Gresini Ducati and 2022 British GP winner Pecco Bagnaia.
Bagnaia has slid 51 points back in the championship after a double non-score at the French GP, as he looks to find a solution to his front end problems on the factory Ducati.
The British Grand Prix has seen 10 different riders win at the event in the last 10 editions, which is a run that could be ended by a previous victor in Maverick Vinales.
The Tech3 KTM rider has been in consistently strong form in recent rounds and has emerged as the reference rider within the brand.
Fabio Quartararo has secured back-to-back pole positions in MotoGP in the last two rounds and will be a contender for a third this weekend at a track the Yamaha has gone well at in the past.
Honda welcomes back Aleix Espargaro for a second time this season as he makes another wildcard appearance on the RC213V.
FP1 was topped by Marc Marquez ahead of Franco Morbidelli and Alex Marquez.
Practice is scheduled for 16:00 local time.
23 May 2025
17:16
British GP Practice report
Read the full report from Practice for the 2025 MotoGP British Grand Prix here
17:10
Practice Results
17:02
Alex Marquez tops Practice
Chequered flag is out in Silverstone for MotoGP Practice.
Alex Marquez fastest from Fabio Quartararo and Jack Miller. Marc Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi round out the top-five.
17:00
Bagnaia goes sixth on his final lap, Marc Marquez goes fourth, bumping him back to seventh.
16:58
1:57.342 from Quartararo puts him top with a couple of minutes to go.
16:54
Better second lap of that run for Alex Marquez, and he goes fastest on a 1:57.613.
16:52
Tough time attack portion for Alex Marquez here in PR. Medium front tyre for him, and he goes only 12th with his latest lap.
16:50
Bezzecchi, just ahead of Bagnaia on the road, goes to the top with his latest lap. Bagnaia improves behind him but only to ninth.
16:48
Lap cancelled for Bezzecchi who is back down to 11th now.
16:48
Di Giannantonio now to the top.
Bagnaia improves and goes seventh despite running wide at the final chicane.
16:45
Zarco to the top, ahead of Marquez, but Marquez responds immediately and takes the top spot once again by 0.036s.
16:44
Marc Marquez on his first time attack of the session with a medium front tyre.
Excellent third split from Marquez saw him gain almost 0.3s, and another tenth in the final split puts him top.
Alex Rins was behind him during that lap to go second, 0.320s behind.
16:41
Incident under investigation between Morbidelli and Bezzecchi.
16:39
Bezzecchi was on a lap there but slowed when he came across Morbidelli in the Maggots-Becketts-Chapel section.
16:37
Marini up to 10th. Both factory Ducatis currently outside the top-10: Marquez 12th, Bagnaia 13th.
16:34
Vinales to the top, then Mir, then Di Giannantonio briefly - lap cancelled for the VR46 rider.
16:33
Di Giannantonio to third now, he's only 0.050s behind Bezzecchi's benchmark, so it's tight at the top at the moment.
16:32
Mir improves, up into seventh with a soft-soft tyre combination.
Bagnaia now bumped out of the top-10. Still 27 minutes to go.
16:30
Quartararo up to up to second with his latest lap - he's on a soft rear tyre now.
16:28
Mir now out of the top-10 as Aldeguer goes up to sixth. Now bumped back to seventh by Quartararo who goes sixth.
16:26
Acosta up to fifth with his latest lap.
Mir into the top-10 as well.
16:23
Miller and Marquez back out on track now.
Miller just goes up to third on his latest lap - soft front, soft rear.
16:23
From VR46: "Crash for Franky at Turn 6. Rider OK, getting ready to come back in the Practice."
16:22
Bagnaia gets a PB lap in there, up to eighth but still 0.789s off the top time.
