2025 Italian MotoGP As It Happened

Bagnaia leads over the line this time. It's the strongest he's fought all season, no doubt, but the Marquezes are still right there.

Marc was briefly back to the front at turn one, but he ran in deep. 

Bagnaia back to the front again at turn two on lap four. He passed Alex Marquez into turn one, then Marc at turn two.

Marquez back to the front at turn four, Bagnaia tried to cut back at turn five but he touched the rear tyre of Marquez. A lot of urgency for both of them to lead, but it's Marquez that's come ot on top of that.

Bagnaia dropped to third in that, and Morbidelli has now joined the podium battle. Vinales not far behind, either.

Marquez leads over the line from Bagnaia, Alex Marquez right there too.

Bahnaia back to the front at turn one, finishes the move at turn two.

Chantra has a double long lap penaly for incorrect grid procedure. He was late leaving the grid on the warm-up lap.

Lap one down at Mugello. Bagnaia leads over the line from Marquez, who is all over him. Alex Marquez third.

Marc Marquez makes the move to the front at turn one.

Bastianini crashed out at the final corner of lap one.

Riders are off on their warm-up lap ahead of the Italian Grand Prix.

Miller has switched to the soft rear now so no one left on the medium.

Binder has joined teammate Acosta on the hard front. The South African, of course, didn't get beyond turn one yesterday, so much of this will be a race of discovery for him.

Davide Tardozzi telling the TV world feed that, with almost everyone on the soft rear tyre, it's likely to be a race about tyre management, but that doesn't mean some riders won't attack at the start.

Still 10 minutes to go before the start, but at present everyone bar Jack Miller is on the soft-compound rear tyre. Miller, therefore, is currently on the medium.

Everyone on the medium-compound front, too, apart from Pedro Acosta who is making the same hard-compound gamble he made yesterday which ended in a crash at the final corner.

Maverick Vinales' pace has been strong all weekend on the Tech3 KTM, but he couldn't quite get to Bagnaia late in the Sprint to make a challenge for the podium.

From row two, he could certainly be in the mix again today, but so could Fabio Di Giannantonio from row three - certainly, the VR46 Ducati rider felt he had the pace to challenge for the rostrum after yesterday's Sprint despite his fifth-place finish.

Perhaps it will be Alex Marquez who can best challenge Marc Marquez today.

In terms of the championship, it will be critical for Gresini's Marquez to beat his brother today to keep the difference between them in the riders' standings below the 37-point maximum for a full weekend in the Sprint era.

The gap stands at 35 points after yesterday, so Marc only needs two points more than Alex today to go above that one-weekend threshold.

Francesco Bagnaia has won the past three GPs here at Mugello, but his struggles this year are well documented.

Even this weekend, where after qualifying he seemed to be more competitive than ever before in 2025, Bagnaia complained after the Sprint of encountering the same issues as all season as he struggled to keep up with the Marquez brothers ahead of him despite making the holeshot from the front row of the grid.

Typically, Bagnaia improves from Saturday to Sunday but it would take a mighty step for the Italian to win at home today.

Marc Marquez is on pole position for today's race. It's his 100th pole position in grand prix racing, and he's chasing his 93rd GP win in today's race, which would be rather neat for the championship leader in his first grand prix in Italy as a factory Ducati rider.

The #93was1.4 seconds clear of Alex Marquez in yesterday's Sprint despite issues onthe grid withhis start sequencing.

Certainly, he is the favourite for victory today.

Welcome to live coverage of today's MotoGP race from Mugello. The race will be coming up in just over 20 minutes at 14:00 local time.