2025 Czech MotoGP: Sprint LIVE UPDATES

It was a difficult qualifying for Alex Marquez, his worst of the year, in fact, down in P8. He comes into this race 83 points behind his brother, Marc, in the riders' standings.

He's been increasingly clear recently that his main target for 2025 now is maintaining second place in the standings from Bagnaia, who is 62 points behind the Gresini rider.

From eighth, he will have work to do this afternoon to prevent that gap to Bagnaia from decreasing ahead of tomorrow's Czech Grand Prix.

There was some concern at the end of qualifying that a penalty could have been coming the way of Marc Marquez after he crashed at the penultimate corner while Johann Zarco and his LCR Honda were already in the gravel.

But the Spaniard crashed at turn 13 having already entered the yellow flag zone before the yellows were thrown for the Zarco crash. So, no penalty for the factory Ducati rider.

Marquez said afterwards that he had been distracted, that being the cause of his crash that probably cost him pole position.

20 minutes until the Sprint gets underway and the riders are off on their sighting lap ahead of the Sprint.

Francesco Bagnaia is on pole for the first time this year today.

He'll start alongside Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo on the front row.

TV replays showing Marquez crashed almost immediately behind Zarco, so he shouldn't be penalised for that.

Marquez has gone ballistic on his final lap. 

0.2s up on Bagnaia after sector 1, 0.195s after sector 2, 0.245s after sector 3, but he's down at the penultimate corner!

Crashes for Miller and Zarco at the end, too.

Marquez crashed when Zarco was already in the gravel.

Raul Fernandez goes P5 with his latest lap. He was right behind Bezzecchi when he crashed, so unaffected by yellows.

Others, like the Marquezes, Bagnaia, and Acosta, all now cruising on their current lap having hit yellows for Bezzecchi's crash at turn one that have now been cleared. 

1 minute left in Q2, so one lap remaining.

Bezzecchi with his third crash of the weekend. He's run on at the first turn, into the gravel, and just dropped it on its side before he got to the barrier.

Provisonal pole from Bagnaia with his first lap of the session. Impressive from the Italian who, 30 minutes ago, looked in deep trouble in Q1.

1:52.303 pushes us closer to the 1:51s. 

The rest heading out for their second runs now.

Order after run one:

M. Marquez, Quartararo, Bezzecchi

Acosta, A. Marquez, Zarco

Miller, Mir, Bastianini

Martin, Fernandez, Bagnaia

Bagnaia now heading out for his second run.

Bezzecchi onto the front row in third with his second lap. Acosta up to fourth in his tow.

Quartararo up to second with his first lap.

Martin 8th after his opening attempt.

Correction, Bagnaia went out but pit at the end of his first lap.

First laps in now. Typically the first lap of the first run has been the standout from Marc Marquez in 2025.

This time, it's an immediate lap record - 1:52.522. He leads from Alex Marquez and Jack Miller.

Bagnaia hasn't gone out yet, he's managing his soft tyre allocation.

Bagnaia fastest in Q1. Raul Fernandez moves through to Q2 with him.

Di Giannantonio misses out in third despite also getting himself into the 1:52s.

Q2 coming up at 11:15 local time.

PB for Di Giannantonio on his second lap but it's only enough for third.

Bagnaia now back in the pits with a minute on the clock.

Di Giannantonio now bumped out by Raul Fernandez on a 1:52.775.

Espargaro back up to second with his first lap of run two, but he's soon beaten by Di Giannantonio who goes second and into the 1:52s.