2025 Aragon MotoGP: Sprint LIVE UPDATES

Ordinarily in a Sprint, the soft-compound rear tyre is the only choice worth considering, but that's not the case today.

Such is the degradation being experienced this weekend, a number of riders provisionally on the medium-compound rear tyre for the Sprint.

These include Marc Marquez, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Jack Miller, and Miguel Oliveira.

Quartararo also down as having a medium rear tyre, but he just told the international TV feed that he's going to run the soft. Plenty of time for the others to change, too, with eight minutes still before the start.

Marco Bezzecchi, coming here off the back of victory at Silverstone, starts 20th today having crashed on his opening lap of Q1.

Only Somkiat Chantra starts behind Bezzecchi today, even Jorge Martin fill-in Lorenzo Savadori starts ahead in 19th.

Riders are off on their sighting lap ahead of the Sprint.

Although it's Ducatis 1-4 on the grid, KTM are fifth and sixth behind them with Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder on the second row.

They're pace looked decent on Friday, too, so could be a factor over the course of today's 11-lap Sprint.

It's Marc Marquez on pole position this afternoon. He was over a quarter-of-a-second faster than the field in Q2 earlier this morning. He was fastest in both practices yesterday as well, and his pace looks pretty red hot.

It's hard to see anyone beating Marquez today, even his brother Alex Marquez is unlikely to really challenge him.

But the Gresini rider looks good enough on paper to challenge for the podium, along with the likes of Franco Morbidelli and Francesco Bagnaia who go from third and fourth, respectively.

It's Marc Marquez on pole in Aragon ahead of Alex Marquez and Franco Morbidelli.

Bagnaia, Acosta, Binder row two; Aldeguer, Vinales, Quartararo row three; Di Giannantonio, Mir, Zarco row four.

Morbidelli threatened an improvement on his final lap but it just went away in the final sector.

Late improvement from Bagnaia puts him 0.6s off his teammate, but it's enough for fourth at least.

Marc Marquez back to the top with what is surely his final lap - 1:45.704 puts him 0.2s clear of the field. That's surely a fourth pole of the year.

Morbidelli to second with his latest lap, 1:45.984 puts him 0.002s ahead of Marc Marquez.

Alex Marquez now to provisional pole - 1:45.964 puts him on top with just over 2 minutes on the clock.

Marc Marquez was almost 0.2s under at the first split, but he blew turn seven.

Bagnaia cut his first run short due to a mistake at turn eight, so he's early with his run two.

His first lap gets him up to fourth, 0.354s off his teammate.

First runs are over in Q2. Marquez from Marquez at the top, Pedro Acosta third for now and 0.335s off the top.

Decent speed from Quartararo has him sixth for now, behind Morbidelli. Johann Zarco seventh from Vinales and Mir.

Fermin Aldeguer heading row three at the moment ahead of Bagnaia and Di Giannantonio, who only has one tyre after going through Q1 and hasn't set a time.

Strong first half to his second lap for Alex Marquez but it  just drifts away in sectors three and four. He improves to a 1:46.207 and reduces his gap to 0.221, but he stays second for now.

First laps coming in now and Marc Marquez immediately into the 1:45s - a 1:45.986 puts him on early provisional pole, 0.4s ahead of Alex Marquez. Brad Binder third currently.

Confirmation from the international TV feed that both Joan Mir and Alex Marquez have only one bike for Q2 after their FP2 crashes earlier on.

5 minutes until Q2 gets underway in Aragon.

As we saw in Q1, Di Giannantonio and Quartararo will join the top-10 from Practice to battle it out for pole position.

With Quartararo getting through, five of the six manufacturers are represented in Q2.

We have all six Ducatis, two Hondas (Zarco, Mir), and three KTMs (Binder, Acosta, Vinales). Bezzecchi's issues in Q1 means that only Aprilia will not take part in Q2.

Di Giannantonio flying on the second lap of his final run, and he goes fastest despite a few rear slides.

Quartararo into the 1:46s for the first time this weekend and he now leads the session by 0.4s.

That only lasted briefly, though, as Raul Fernandez goes second and within a tenth of the factory Yamaha rider.

Miller third with his latest lap. Fernandez is done as he's blown turn one for his second flyer.

Bezzecchi cruising on his out lap. He was running over the grass at the chicane before the back straight and he seems to have an issue.

He's returned to the pits and soem work now going on on his bike but he only has two minutes before he needs to get out if he wants to have time to set a lap time.