The 2025 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix continues on Saturday 21 June with qualifying and the sprint for the ninth round of the campaign.
Marc Marquez leads the championship coming into Saturday's race action at Mugello, with the factory Ducati rider 32 points clear of the chasing pack following a perfect weekend at Aragon.
Gresini Ducati's Alex Marquez is his nearest challenger in the standings amid a consistent season for the Spaniard, while Pecco Bagnaia is third in the championship - 93 points behind team-mate Marc Marquez.
Pecco Bagnaia has won the last three Italian Grands Prix and comes to Mugello having made a breakthrough with his feeling on the GP25 two weeks ago at Aragon.
Tech3 KTM rider Maverick Vinales was fastest at the end of a tight Friday practice and was confident the Austrian brand's pace was genuine following steps at the Aragon test.
Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo has been cleared to ride on Saturday despite suffering a partial shoulder dislocation in a crash on Friday afternoon.
The Sprint is set to get underway at 2pm BST over 11 laps. Marc Marquez will start on pole position, alongside Bagnaia and Alex Marquez on the front row.
It was a 100th grand prix pole position for Marc Marquez in Mugello earlier on in qualifying.
So far this year, he's converted all five of his previous pole positions to Sprint wins on Saturday afternoon. Victory today would be an eighth Sprint win from nine for Marquez in 2025, exceeding Pecco Bagnaia's title from the entirety of the 2024 season.
The riders are off on their sighting lap ahead of the Sprint at Mugello. 15 minutes until lights out this afternoon.
Welcome back to our live coverage of today's Italian MotoGP action, with the Sprint at Mugello coming up in just under 20 minutes at 15:00 local time.
Reminder that the sprint is at 2pm BST.
No further action on Rins/Marquez incident.
Alex Rins could be facing a penalty for getting in Marc Marquez's way. Stewards are looking at it.
Bagnaia had a moment earlier in this session at Turn 11. But I think he'll be happy with second and that slender gap to Marc Marquez.
Chequered flag is out and Marc Marquez takes pole in Italy!
Vinales improves to fifth.
Acosta improves to seventh.
Unless anyone has anything else, that could be the 100th pole for Marc Marquez. Two minutes to go.
Marc Marquez goes faster still, though, with a 1m44.169s - but only by 0.059s over Bagnaia and a further 0.024s clear of Alex Marquez.
Bagnaia noes takes over with a 1m44.228s from Alex Marquez.
Quartararo goes top with a 1m44.411s.
Alex Marquez towed Marc on that first flying lap and one has to wonder the merit of that tactic, as it's not worked for the Gresini rider at all.
With eight minutes to go, the order is:
Vinales is sixth at the end of this run. A little disappointing given what we've seen so far.
Alex Marquez is also only seventh. So, lots of changes to come.
Morbidelli's second lap keeps him third. He was hooked in behind Bagnaia.
Bagnaia nows goes second, just 0.048s behind his team-mate.
That's more like it, Pecco!
Fabio Quartararo goes up to second on the Yamaha, 0.256s from Marquez's lap.
That's an all-time lap record for Marc Marquez!
Marc Marquez sets the early pace at a 1m44.5s on the factory Ducati, 0.394s clear of Franco Morbidelli.
