The eighth round of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship sees the paddock return to Spain for the Aragon Grand Prix.
Marc Marquez leads the standings ahead of what is effectively a home race for the eight-time world champion, after finishing third in a chaotic British Grand Prix two weeks ago.
The factory Ducati rider rebounded from a crash ahead of a red flag to get himself on the podium and extend his championship lead to 24 points over younger brother Alex Marquez.
Pecco Bagnaia's hopes took a major knock at Silverstone as a DNF in the grand prix has left him 72 points back of team-mate Marc Marquez ahead of the eighth round.
Friday schedule:
If you're new to MotoGP, or maybe just forgotten, the top 10 riders at the end of this coming session will advance directly into the Q2 qualifying session on Saturday morning.
Everyone else will have to duke it out in Q1 to bag one of two Q2 places up for grabs.
Conditions are pretty scorching for this afternoon's hour-long Practice.
Track temperature is up to 46 degrees C.
Good afternoon and welcome back to our live coverage of the 2025 MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix.
Practice is up next in 20 minutes.
The hot rumour coming into Aragon is Toprak Razgatlioglu having signed a deal to join Pramac Yamaha for 2026.
But the team is denying this.
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Honda insists Jorge Martin's recent statement expressing a desire to leave Aprilia for 2026 has not changed its stance on offering him a deal while he is still contracted.
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Practice begins at 2pm BST, so we're going to step away for a little breather.
Keep your eyes fixed on Crash.net for all the latest from the Aragon paddock this afternoon.
Read the full FP1 report from the 2025 MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix here
The chequered flag is out and Marc Marquez ends FP1 at the Aragon Grand Prix fastest.
Alex Marquez, by the way, has closed in on his brother a little to 1.038ss.
Bagnaia has a big moment into the final two corners, but gets away with it.
Rins improves to fourth, while Vinales goes third on a new medium rear.
Alex Rins has taken a new medium rear to sixth.
Just under 10 minutes left and Marc Marquez continuees to lead the way from Alex Marquez and Joan Mir. Nobody has closed down that 1.1s gap yet.
Joan Mir moves up to third with a 1m48.293s, which is pretty decent as that's on a 13-lap-old medium rear.
Marc Marquez improves to a 1m46.974s and is 1.1s clear of the field!
Order with 15 minutes to go:
Pedro Acosta improves to third on his KTM. Good morning so far for the Austrian manufacturer as it has three riders inside the top 10.
Marquez posted that lap on a fresh soft front but is still on the medium rear he started the session with.
Marc Marquez improves to a 1m47.205s, while Vinales hops up to fifth.
Joan Mir has a run-off at the reverse corkscrew corner but has successfully navigated his way out of the gravel.
Quiet start to the day for Yamaha so far. Jack Miller is its top rider in 11th ahead of Quartararo.
However, there is a lot going on down in those garages with numerous new items from chassis, carbon swingarms and even engines being tested by Yamaha.
Maverick Vinales has broken into the top 10 in eighth on the Tech3 KTM.
Alex Marquez is now back in the pits, while Marc Marquez heads back out.
Bit of a shake of the head for Alex Marquez a moment ago as he went to fiddle with something on his dashboard. He's still on track.
