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That 1m38.141s for Binder is also a new lap record.
2025 Catalan MotoGP
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2025 Catalan MotoGP: Friday practice updates LIVE!
Live text coverage of Friday practice from the 2025 MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix
MotoGP makes its third visit to Spain this weekend, with the 15th round of the 2025 campaign taking place at the Catalan Grand Prix.
Effectively MotoGP's home race, Barcelona has been the scene of many iconic moments over the years, such as the 2009 duel between Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, and Jorge Martin's historic world title last season.
Marc Marquez returns to home soil with a massive 175-point lead in the championship following his seventh double victory in a row last time out at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
And now he stands very much on the edge of winning his seventh premier class title. If he can outscore Alex Marquez by at least 10 points this weekend, he will go to next week's San Marino Grand Prix with his first shot at putting this championship to bed.
But the elder Marquez brother considers this to be one of his weakest tracks, with the Ducati rider victorious only twice in MotoGP at Barcelona. Still, last year at both races held at the circuit he scored a brace of podium finishes.
Alex Marquez enjoyed a strong Barcelona test last November on the GP24 and will be hoping to conjure up that form again to overturn his recent skid.
Last year's Barcelona winner Pecco Bagnaia comes to this weekend in a more buoyant mood having felt like he made a breakthrough with the set-up of his GP25 Ducati in Hungary.
Aprilia has enjoyed strong recent form in Barcelona, and the Hungarian Grand Prix results for Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin have many predicting them as a big threat this weekend.
2025 Catalan MotoGP: Friday schedule
- 9:45am BST - FP1 (45 minutes)
- 2pm BST - Practice (60 minutes)
05 Sep 2025
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Catalan MotoGP - Practice report
Read the full report from the 2025 MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix:
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Catalan MotoGP Practice Results
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15:01
Brad Bnder does hold onto top spot ahead of Pedro Acosta. What a day for KTM!
Alex Marquez is third, while Marc Marquez is fourth.
Pecco Bagnaia is a miserable 21st.
15:00
Chequered flag
Chequered flag is out and Brad Binder looks like he'll hold onto top spot.
15:00
Crash - Enea Bastianini
Bastianini has gone down at Turn 2 as well. His KTM has bounced onto the air fence.
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14:59
Crash - Johann Zarco
Zarco has gone down at Turn 2.
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Bagnaia, by the way, is 21st. Two minutes to go.
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Marc Marquez goes fourth, 0.224s off the pace.
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14:57
Binder snatches top spot now from Acosta with a 1m38.141s.
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Bastianini goes from 15th to fourth. Ogura seventh behind him.
14:56
Great laps from Bezzecchi. He's up to third. Miller ninth. Bastianini flying again behind them.
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14:55
Alex Marquez is being warned that he has Marc Marquez behind him. He's actually got Rins and Aleix Espargaro behind him as well.
14:53
Di Giannantonio goes up to 10th. That's not a good sign for Bagnaia because it doesn't suggest the bike is the problem again.
14:53
Quartararo pushes his Yamaha to fourth.
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14:51
He's not the only GP25 down the order, though. Di Giannantonio is down in 22nd but yet to put in a soft flier.
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Bagnaia comes across the line and is 19th. He's a second behind Alex and Marc Marquez just about.
14:50
Standings with 10 minutes to go:
- Alex Marquez
- Marc Marquez
- Zarco
- Acosta
- Binder
- Bezzecchi
- Mir
- Oliveira
- Marini
- Morbidelli
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14:50
Alex Marquez puts in a blinding last sector to go top with a 1m38.349s.
14:49
Binder up to fourth behind Acosta.
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Aleix Espargaro goes up to eighth.
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14:48
Alex Marquez is now third. But still 0.2s splitting top two from the rest.
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Acosta goes third ahead of Bastianini and Miller.
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However, all on his own, Zarco is just 0.067s behind Marquez. That Honda isn't on the updates chassis either. That was impressive.
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14:47
Marc Marquez absolutely obliterates the field with a 1m38.444s.
