2025 Italian MotoGP
2025 Italian MotoGP
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2025 Italian MotoGP: Friday practice LIVE UPDATES!

Live updates from Friday practice at the 2025 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix

The 2025 MotoGP season continues with its ninth round from 20-22 June, as the series heads to Italy for its first of two visits this year. 

The Italian Grand Prix held at Mugello is one of the most popular events on the calendar among the riders thanks to the circuit's picturesque setting and fast, flowing layout. 

Marc Marquez comes into the Italian Grand Prix leading the championship by 32 points after a perfect weekend last time out at Aragon, where he topped every single session on his factory Ducati. 

He has been without a win at Mugello since 2014, with Ducati team-mate Pecco Bagnaia king of the venue in recent years with three wins on the bounce coming into this year's event. 

Bagnaia made a breakthrough with his motorcycle at Aragon and is expected to take another step forward at his stronghold of Mugello this weekend. And he'll need to, with 93 points separating him from championship leader Marc Marquez. 

Alex Marquez comes into the round as his elder brother's nearest challenger in second in the standings.

FP1 begins at 9:45am BST, while Practice starts at 2pm BST.

20 Jun 2025
14:31

Standings after 30 minutes:

  1. Acosta
  2. M.Marquez
  3. Vinales
  4. A.Marquez
  5. Bagnaia
  6. Quartararo
  7. Bezzecchi
  8. Binder
  9. Di Giannantonio
  10. Miller
14:27

Quartararo suffered a slight dislocation of his left shoulder in that crash, according to Dr. Charte.

14:25

Quartararo is heading back out of pitlane now.

14:24
Crash - Jack Miller

Jack Miller has now gone down at the final corner. Front washed mid-turn. 

He's up and ok. 

Not a good afternoon for Yamaha so far.

14:23

Positive news!

Quartararo is back in his garage with some fresh leathers on and is ready to go again.

 

14:21

Not too much in the way of timesheet changes right now as everyone focuses on used tyre running. 

14:21

Fresh from aa strong run at the 24 Hour of Le Mans with BMW prior to the car breaking down, Valentino Rossi is on site at Mugello watching on from the sidelines. 

He's got a week off before he's back behind the wheel at the 24 Hours of Spa next weekend. 

14:17

Quartararo has made it back to the paddock and is going into the Yamaha truck. 

Dr. Angel Charte is already on the scene to assess him. 

14:16

Standings after 15 minutes: 

  1. Acosta
  2. M.Marquez
  3. Vinales
  4. A.Marquez
  5. Bagnaia
  6. Bezzecchi
  7. Quartararo
  8. Binder
  9. Di Giannantonio
  10. Miller
14:14

Quartararo is now holding onto his bike, so maybe he's gotten away with just a nasty whack. 

He's pleading with the marshals to be able to take his bike back to the pits. 

There is a shortcut into pitlane at Turn 6. But he looks like he's lost that battle. 

14:13

Replay shows Quartararo go down going into Turn 4. He's up on his feet but he looks in a lot of discomfort.

14:12
Crash - Fabio Quartararo

Fabio Quartararo has had a heavy crash and is pointing at his collarbone. 

14:10

Pedro Acosta goes to the top of the order with a 1m45.729s. 

Nine riders currently - including Acosta - are looking at the soft rear right now.

14:05

Jack Miller has been off into the gravel trap at Turn 1. He's gotten going again but just looked to get out of shape on the way in while taking Fermin Aldeguer's tow and almost clattered into the back of him.

14:04

Maverick Vinales now goes top on the Tech3 KTM with a 1m45.849s on the soft rear - so, best time of the day already. 

14:04

First laps on the board, Pecco Bagnaia leads the way with a 1m47.022s. 

14:00
Green flag

Pitlane is open for Practice.

13:56

A reminder for those who may be new to MotoGP:

The top 10 at the end of this session will go through directly to Q2 in qualifying on Saturday. The rest will face Q1 to battle for two places in Q2. 

 

13:49

Just 10 minutes to go till pitlane opens for PR.

13:46

Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi was fastest in FP1 this morning with a 1m46.199s identical to KTM's Pedro Acosta in second. 

Both of those riders did use fresh medium rubber at the end of the session, while the Ducatis didn't. So, we're yet to really see a real picture of the pecking order.

13:44

It's even hotter this afternoon than it was in FP1, with the air temp up at 34 degrees C!

That will likely mean we're going to see quite a few falls in this session when we get to the time attack phase as grip will be pretty limited in such hot conditions. 

13:42
2025 Italian MotoGP - Practice build-up

Good afternoon and welcome back to our live coverage of the 2025 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix. 

The hour-long Practice session is coming up at 2pm BST.

10:32

That lap is identical to Pedro Acosta's!