08:10
The lap record at Mandalika, for reference, is a 1m29.088s.
Marc Marquez
2025 Indonesian MotoGP, Mandalika: Friday practice and reaction as it happened
Live updates from Friday practice at the 2025 Indonesian MotoGP at Mandalika.
Having wrapped up the title last time in Japan, Marc Marquez needs to win two of the remaining five grands prix to beat his record of 13 wins in a season (2014).
However, his first target this weekend will just be to finish the grand prix, having never seen a Sunday chequered flag at Mandalika in his three previous visits.
Marquez was injured during a massive highside in warm-up for the inaugural 2022 event, crashed in 2023 and suffered an engine failure in 2024. His only Indonesian result so far is a third place, as a Gresini rider, in last year’s Sprint race.
After victories earlier this season in Austria, Mandalika and Portimao are the only circuits on the current calendar that Marquez has not yet won at.
Meanwhile, the battle for second is getting closer with factory Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia now 66 points behind Alex Marquez after a perfect weekend in Motegi.
Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi lost ground in Japan, after being taken out by team-mate Jorge Martin in the Sprint, and is a further 32 points from Bagnaia.
Martin, last year’s pole and grand prix winner, is missing this weekend after undergoing surgery for a right collarbone fracture sustained in the Japanese accident.
Rookie Ai Ogura, who withdrew from his home Japanese Grand Prix last Sunday due to ongoing pain from the wrist injury at Misano, also remains out of action, meaning Raul Fernandez is the only Trackhouse rider in the special Gulf livery.
Friday’s schedule:
10:45am (local) / 3:45am (UK) - MotoGP FP1
3pm (local) / 8am (UK) - MotoGP Practice
03 Oct 2025
08:10
Marquez has carried on after that, though.
08:09
Replay of Marquez's crash shows the front going very early. He's on the soft front just now, but the wind has picked up a bit, which may have been a cause.
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08:08
Crash - Marc Marquez
The world champion has now crashed. he's slid off his Ducati at Turn 10. He's up and ok, though.
08:07
Crash - Somkiat Chantra and Johann Zarco
The LCR duo of Johann Zarco and Somkiat Chantra have gone down in separate incidents. Both ok.
Zarco was out there on the hard front, which may have been a contributing factor.
08:06
Honda team-mate Joan Mir is up to second, also on fresh soft rubber.
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08:05
Luca Marini, the FP1 pacesetter, on fresh soft rubber has fired in a 1m30.738s to go top. That's the best time of the day already from the previous Mandalika polesitter.
08:04
First laps on the board and Jack Miller is fastest with a 1m32.087s.
08:00
Aldeguer leads the field out of pitlane.
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08:00
Session start - 2025 Indonesian MotoGP Practice
Practice is underway at Mandalika.
07:54
Five minutes till pitlane opens.
07:50
Hope Gigi is ok 😅#MotoGP#IndonesianGPpic.twitter.com/W2aiTuGmPT
— Crash MotoGP (@crash_motogp) October 3, 2025
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07:45
Honda's Luca Marini led the way in FP1 this morning. Indonesia was a pretty strong weekend for Honda last year, so perhaps unsurprising to see such a good start for the RC213V - especially after last week's podium charge.
07:42
It's absolutely roasting out there ahead of this second session of the day.
Air temp is up at 30 degrees C, while track temp is 56 degrees C.
That's going to lead to quite a bit of chaos when the field goes for their time attack efforts in the latter stages.
07:41
2025 Indonesian MotoGP - Practice
Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage of the 2025 Indonesian Grand Prix.
The hour-long Practice session is up next at the top of the hour.
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05:59
05:24
News: VR46 gave Bagnaia a GP24 at Misano Test
04:36
Indonesian MotoGP: FP1 Results
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04:32
Luca Marini fastest
FP1 at the Indonesian MotoGP ends with Luca Marini fastest from Pedro Acosta. Both put a new medium front tyre on at the end. The Italian also put a new medium rear while Acosta kept an old medium rear.
04:30
But not for long! Luca Marini, also on the revised medium front, and a medium rear, is fastest.
Acosta almost clips the back of Bagnaia.
04:29
Acosta keeps his RC16 under control and goes fastest, by 0.290s. 1min to go.
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04:28
Lots of red sectors flashing up on the screens for the final minutes.
Alex Rins is into 3rd place, then goes fastest! Surprisingly, the tyre data says he's on old rubber.
04:26
Pedro Acosta is the latest rider to save a big moment. Acosta is 8th fastest with 3mins to go.
04:26
Gigi Dall’Igna and Uccio Salucci appear surprised when Uccio's quote about Morbidelli's bike being given to Bagnaia at the Misano test is flashed up on the TV screen!
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04:24
Marc Marquez runs off track and across the gravel as he rejoins the track from pit lane. Continues without issue. He's still 0.067s ahead of Bezzecchi.
