08:17
The lead gap is under a second. Bezzecchi can still win this sprint!
Marc Marquez
2025 Indonesian MotoGP, Mandalika: Sprint + reaction as it happened
Live updates from Saturday’s sprint 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.
However, Bezzecchi struck back by leading day one at Mandalika, while Bagnaia and Marc Marquez both failed to claim direct access to Qualifying 2, meaning they will have to fight for the last two transfer spots in this morning's Qualifying 1.
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.
Saturday October 4:
10:10am (local) / 3:10am (UK) - MotoGP FP2
10.50am (local) / 3:50am (UK) - MotoGP Qualifying
3pm (local) / 8am (UK) - MotoGP Sprint
04 Oct 2025
08:18
Lap 11/13
Three laps to go. Aldeguer has gotten the lead up to 0.9s.
08:17
Bagnaia is 21s off the lead - in a sprint!
08:16
Lap 10/13
Four laps to go. Bezzecchi is flying! The gap is now 1.1s!
08:16
Morbidelli has nudged team-mate DiGia wide at Turn 11 and that's dropped him to 10th. Marc Marquez is now eighth.
08:15
Lap 9/13
We start lap nine. Aldeguer is 1.8s ahead of Bezzecchi now.
Marquez takes 10th from Oliveira at Turn 1. Still points on offer for the world champion.
08:14
Bezzecchi takes second from Fernandez at Turn 10 for second. 2.3s to Aldeguer.
08:13
Lap 8/13
Onto lap eight and Aldeguer has a track limits warning!
He is 2.2s clear of Fernandez now, who is keeping Bezzecchi at bay. This win is slipping away from the factory Aprilia.
08:12
Acosta has pulled into the pits.
08:12
Behind the podium, it's Alex Marquez, Luca Marini, Franco Morbidelli, Joan Mir, Brad Binder and Fabio Di Giannantonio.
08:12
Lap 7/13
Onto lap seven. Aldeguer's lead remains 1.9s. Bezzecchi fires in a 1m29.654s in third. He can catch Aldeguer, but he needs to pass Fernandez now.
08:11
Bagnaia is 2.5s off the lead pace in last. What is going on? How can it have changed so quickly in just a week?
08:10
👀 @marcmarquez93 BARGES into @42rins who goes from P4 to P18#IndonesianGP 🇮🇩 pic.twitter.com/6SdR5LSSFa
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) October 4, 2025
08:10
Lap 6/13
Aldeguer now 1.9s clear of Fernandez in second. Bezzecchi is 2.6s behind the lead in third. Eight laps to go.
08:09
Sorry, it was Turn 1 that Acosta crashed. Aldeguer now leads by almost two seconds. He is on course to be the youngest ever sprint winner.
Bezzecchi has finally gotten through on Marini, while Alex Marquez is now up to fourth ahead of the Honda.
08:09
Lap 5/13 - Acosta crash
Pedro Acosta has crashed out of second at Turn 2!
08:08
Bezzecchi gets the move done on Marini at Turn 10 but runs wide again. This sprint win is gone for the poleman.
08:07
Lap 4/13
Onto lap four. Aldeguer leads by almost half a second, but Acosta was fastest on track.
Bagnaia is last. Bastianini has crashed now.
08:06
Lap 3/12
Bezzecchi is on the charge now. Aldeguer leads Acosta and Fernandez.
Marquez takes his penalty and drops to 13th. Bez is up to fifth and fighting Marini.
08:05
Penalty - Marc Marquez
Marquez has been given a long lap penalty!
08:05
Marquez and Rins incident is under investigation.
08:04
Lap 2/13
Aldeguer made a huge mistake at the penultimate corner but gets back into the lead. Acosta and Fernandez are fighting like crazy for second.
Bezzecchi is back up to sixth ahead of Marc Marquez.
Chantra has crashed.
08:03
Marquez has hit Rins at Turn 10! That was for seventh. Acosta is up to second now. Rins is down to 19th. Quartararo 17th for some reason.
08:03
Sprint - Start (Lap 1/13)
We are racing in the sprint and it's a terrible start from Bezzecchi. Aldeguer leads Fernandez and Acosta.
08:00
Warm-up lap is underway.
