Live reaction as Marc Marquez is crowned 2025 MotoGP world champion

Marini has had an issue somewhere as he has dropped to last.

It's Bagnaia from Acosta, Marquez, Mir, Morbidelli, Bezzecchi, A.Marquez, Fernandez, Quartararo and Zarco. 

Bagnaia is gone. He's a second clear already. 

Alex Marquez has capitalised on this as he moves up to seventh. Quartararo down to ninth. 

Mir has gotten P4 from Quartararo at Turn 3. Morbidelli forces his way through on the Yamaha at Turn 5. 

Alex Marquez is eighth at the moment.  That would not be enough to stop Marc winning the title. 

Acosta has a look at Bagnaia into Turn 5 but the Ducati still leads. 

The three-minute board has been given.

Ducati's Davide Tardozzi has cited Pedro Acosta and Marco Bezzecchi as the strongest rivals to his riders today. 

Bezzecchi was especially fast on Friday on the medium rear, but has to come from eighth and is in some discomfort following his tangle with team-mate Jorge Martin yesterday. 

Just 10 minutes to go and it has just gotten a bit darker at Motegi. There is a rain threat in the forecast, though it's not a certainty it will impact the grand prix. 

Marquez has returned to the grid and has gone straight to the national anthem zone. What must be going through his head right now, after everything that has happened since the last time he was in this position in 2019?

Just 15 minutes to go. 

Looking away from the title battle for a moment, Pecco Bagnaia's resurgence could see him take just his second grand prix win of the season today. 

The changes to his bike made at the Misano test have continued to work for the double world champion. 

Alex Marquez faces a big task to try and delay his older brother's coronation, coming from eighth on the grid having struggled with front-end feeling all weekend. 

Marc Marquez has already headed straight off the grid and back to the safety of his garage. He admitted yesterday during the sprint that he was feeling the nerves of the occasion.