2026 Spanish MotoGP Friday Practice Reaction LIVE: Marquez comfortably fastest

Live updates from the Practice session at the 2026 Spanish MotoGP. Practice is scheduled for 15:00 local time.

Key Moments

• Marquez ends 0.3s clear of the field in Practice
• Bagnaia down early in Practice
• PR starts
• Martin crashes post-session
• Di Giannantonio fastest in FP1

Marco Bezzecchi enters the Spanish Grand Prix as the championship leader. The Italian is expecting a "tough" race this weekend for a variety of reasons, including tyre wear, as he explained yesterday. In FP1 this morning he was fourth-fastest and one of several riders to not use a fresh tyre at the end.

Bezzecchi's Aprilia Racing teammate, Jorge Martin, is the Italian's closest rival in the standings at present. He also didn't use a fresh tyre but did improve late on in FP1 to finish 10th-fastest this morning.

Pedro Acosta remains third in the championship after returning to the podium in Texas. The Spaniard feels this year's KTM is a bike that is more suited to him than last year which is helping him stay more consistent at the beginnin of the season, although he is still chasing that first premier class win. He was only the second-fastest KTM for much of this morning's session, but he ended up eighth and the only KTM in the top-10.

Fabio Di Giannantonio is the leading Ducati rider in the championship despite being taken out by Marc Marquez in the Sprint at COTA. The VR46 rider's future is uncertain at present but he insisted yesterday that his focus remains on racing at the moment, and he finished this morning's practice fastest overall having used a fresh tyre for his final run.

Franco Morbidelli also used a fresh tyre this morning to go second at the end.

Marc Marquez hasn't yet stood on a grand prix podium this year and his only win of any kind has come in the Brazil Sprint, in which he narrowly beat Di Giannantonio. Marquez's form this year has been hampered so far by his physical condition, and he was walking around yesterday with a new scar on his arm from his high-speed Texas practice crash almost a month ago.

The reigning champion was fifth this morning and, like Bezzecchi ahead of him, didn't use a fresh tyre. Fastest of everyone who stayed with the same tyres for the whole session this morning was Alex Marquez in third overall.

There are also two wildcard riders on the grid this weekend as Lorenzo Savadori and Augusto Fernandez line up for Aprilia and Yamaha, respectively, ahead of the first in-season official test of 2026 on Monday.

Factory Yamaha boss Massimo Meregalli explained earlier that Fernandez will be able to help the team work through its testing programme for this weekend, where it has some new items to try, since he is there as a wildcard.