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2025 Malaysian MotoGP, Sepang: Friday Practice - LIVE UPDATES

Live updates from Friday practice at the 2025 Malaysian MotoGP at Sepang.

MotoGP arrives at Sepang in Malaysia fresh from an Aprilia double at Phillip Island - courtesy of Marco Bezzecchi and Raul Fernandez - but with Marc Marquez, Jorge Martin and Maverick Vinales still sidelined by injury.

Marc Marquez is again being replaced by Ducati test rider Michele Pirro, Martin by Aprilia test rider Lorenzo Savadori and Vinales by KTM test rider Pol Espargaro.

Alex Marquez is comfortably on course to wrap up a historic Marquez one-two in the world championship this weekend, holding a 97-point advantage over next-best Bezzecchi. Just 74 points will remain after this weekend.

The Gresini rider is a former Sprint winner at Sepang and topped February’s official pre-season test.

Last year’s Sepang pole and grand prix winner Francesco Bagnaia has faded to fourth overall on his factory Ducati after back-to-back misery at Mandalika and Phillip Island.

Martin won last year’s Sprint and was runner-up to Bagnaia in the grand prix, after a thrilling early duel between the then title rivals.

Meanwhile, Augusto Fernandez is back this weekend to give the new Yamaha V4 its second wild-card appearance of the year, after a 14th place at Misano in mid-September.

Friday October 24:
10:45am (local) / 03:45m (UK) - MotoGP FP1
3:00pm (local) / 8:00am (UK) - MotoGP Practice

Peter McLaren

24 Oct 2025

03:56

Technical

Jack Miller looks to have had a technical issue on his Pramac Yamaha.

03:55

A good start for Bagnaia, who is fastest after 10mins. But which bike is he on?

03:55

Crash

KTM's Pedro Acosta is the first faller of the Malaysian MotoGP weekend, at the slow Turn 2. He's able to restart with the help of marshals.

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03:53

Appleyard believes Bagnaia has one '2024' based Ducati (with the GP25 engine) from the Misano test, and then a '2025' spec bike, for a back-to-back test.

Bagnaia was competitive at the February test.

03:48

Meanwhile, it sounds like Francesco Bagnaia has two different spec bikes to try this morning, after his misery at the past two rounds.

03:47

Nicolo Bulega MotoGP test

Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi confirms to Dorna's pit lane reporter Jack Appleyard that WorldSBK star Nicolo Bulega will test a MotoGP bike at Jerez soon, ahead of a decision on whether he will replace Marc Marquez for the final rounds.

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03:47

The green lights are on and MotoGP FP1 begins at Sepang.

03:37

Weather forecasts warn of a high chance of showers during the day, so riders and teams will want to make the most of the dry track time while they can.

03:33

The Moto2 session ends with Jake Dixon fastest. 2026 LCR Honda MotoGP rider Diogo Moreira is in 5th with title rival Manuel Gonzalez 10th.

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03:27

In terms of tyres, at the front, the 2024 Soft is the same, while last year's Hard is the 2025 Medium. A new reinforced Hard front, also seen at the other Asian circuits, has been added for 2025.

At the rear, the 2024 Soft is the same, while the Medium now also has a standard carcass (instead of a reinforced construction).

Soft front and Medium rear were the dominant tyre choices for both of last year's races.

03:22

The official Sepang MotoGP lap records are as follows:

Best lap: Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati, 1m 56.337s (2024)

Fastest race lap: Alex Marquez, Ducati, 1m 58.979s (2023)

03:20

The last time the full MotoGP field was on track at Sepang was February's official test, which ended with the following top ten: