The TT Circuit Assen hosts round 10 of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship. Practice for the Dutch MotoGP is set to get underway at 15:00 local time.
Marc Marquez enters this weekend with a 40-point championship lead over Alex Marquez after the Ducati Lenovo Team rider won both races in Mugello last weekend.
Marquez has only won in Assen twice in the top class, the latest of those coming in 2018.
Francesco Bagnaia has won the last three editions of the Dutch TT, plus last year's Sprint, but he has only one grand prix podium finish in the past four rounds of this season.
FP1 was delayed this morning due to track conditions after the opening Moto3 practice. Marc Marquez ended the session fastest despite a high-speed crash at turn 15 in the opening minutes.
Because of the delays this morning, the practice start session will take place now.
Marc Marquez won't take part in it after his crash a few minutes ago.
Fabio Quartararo tops Practice in Assen.
Alex Marquez second from Pedro Acosta, who improved late on.
Marco Bezzecchi fourth from Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, who is safe in Q2 despite that late crash. The Spaniard has also now returned to the Ducati box.
Di Giannantonio, Vinales, Morbidelli, and Zarco complete the top-10 - a last lap time from Zarco to get himself into Q2.
While Marquez is being attended to outside turn seven, Quartararo has gone fastest on the Yamaha. 1:31.156 for the Frenchman.
Vinales up to eighth from 11th with his latest lap as well.
It's a second crash of the day for Marc Marquez. Turn seven this time. He's had to be helped to his feeet but he is now walking away. Does look a bit stunned by it.
Red sectors all over the timing screen with 3 minutes to go.
Bezzecchi to the top first, but Alex Marquez beats that on a 1:31.352.
Bezzecchi up to fourth from ninth with the first lap of his second run.
Improvement from Miller behind as well and he goes 10th.
Improvement on lap two of the run from Bagnaia and he goes fastest. That's a bit more like it from the three-time Assen winner.
Still 5 minutes on the clock for people to improve.
Bagnaia goes ninth with his first time attack lap.
Top-10 after the first run for almost everyone is:
M. Marquez
A. Marquez
Di Giannantonio
Quartararo
Acosta
Vinales
Bezzecchi
Morbidelli
Aldeguer
Zarco
Marc Marquez fastest with his first time attack lap.
1:31.455 puts him 0.045s ahead of Alex Marquez.
Bagnaia just heading out now for what will presumably be his only remaining run with 10 minutes to go.
Ai Ogura has just headed back out after his earlier crash.
Bagnaia the rider under pressure after that red flag. He's 11th at the moment and has just used one soft rear tyre effectively for nothing, unfortunately for him.
He's sat in pit lane now, set to only do one final time attack run at the very end of the session.
Practice is restarted once again in Assen. 13:31 remaining to try to get yourself into the top-10.
Pit lane now set to open in around one minute.
Track inspection taking place on the exit of turn eight, it seems.
Restart has been delayed.
Session is set to restart at 15:58.
Savadori was beihind Franco Morbidelli and had a huge crash exiting turn eight. He's been able to get to his feet. His bike landed in the track.
Red flag is out after that. Cost some people their laps but it needed red flagging to retrieve that bike.
Almost everyone back in the pits now. Only Alex Marquez and Jack Miller, who's 12th, still on track at the moment with 20 minutes remaining.
Time attacks pending, you feel.
PB for Bagnaia that time round, his 1:32.377 keeps him 10th.
Not too much concern about the speed, though, for Bagnaia. He has 15 laps on his soft rear tyre at the moment, only Binder's is older at 18 laps.
Impressive this from Alex Marquez - he's now fastest with only his third lap of the session with a 1:31.872.
Vinales improves again, now to the top with a 1:31.886.
Vinales up to third with his latest lap. Just misses a 1:31, a 1:32.090 for the Tech3 rider there.
Alex Marquez quickly up to speed as well, he goes fifth with a 1:32.206.
