10:18
First laps on the board, Acosta leads with a 1m29.298s from Bezzecchi and Zarco.
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2025 Valencia MotoGP: Qualifying and Sprint LIVE UPDATES!
Live coverage of qualifying and the sprint at the 2025 MotoGP Valencia Grand Prix
The 2025 MotoGP Valencia Grand Prix continues on Saturday 15 November with qualifying and the sprint from the 22nd round of the season.
The longest MotoGP season in history concludes this weekend with MotoGP's return to Valencia, after the event had to be struck from the 2024 schedule due to deadly flooding in the region.
The world championship in 2025 has already been decided in Marc Marquez's favour, with the factory Ducati rider winning his seventh title at the Japanese Grand Prix.
However, a shoulder injury has kept Marquez out of action since the Indonesian Grand Prix.
The main championship battle at the season finale centres on third place, with Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi close to a historic result for the Italian brand, while Pecco Bagnaia looking at risk of slipping to fifth given his recent struggles.
KTM's Pedro Acosta led Friday practice at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit, with Bezzecchi close behind, as race pace suggests another three-way battle between Acosta, Bezzecchi and Gresini's Alex Marquez.
Jorge Martin returns to the line-up this weekend after an injury spell since Japan, though the Aprilia rider faces a double long lap penalty in the grand prix for a collision with Bezzecchi at Motegi. This may well condition his strategy in qualifying.
Saturday schedule:
9:10am GMT - FP2
9:50am GMT - Qualifying
2pm GMT - Sprint
15 Nov 2025
10:17
The Q1 duo of Fernandez and Zarco may find themselves with an advantage to begin with, as they'll know what the conditions of this tricky track are like.
10:15
2025 Valencia MotoGP - Q2 begins
Pitlane has opened for the final qualifying session of the 2025 MotoGP season!
And good news for Pedro Acosta: he has two bikes to use after his FP2 crash.
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10:11
2025 Valencia MotoGP - Q2 riders
After that Q1 session, here is the complete Q2 group fighting for the final pole of MotoGP 2025:
- R.Fernandez
- Zarco
- Quartararo
- Morbidelli
- Acosta
- Mir
- Miller
- Di Giannantonio
- Aldeguer
- Bezzecchi
- Marquez
- Ogura
10:09
📉 @PeccoBagnaia will be starting from P16 on the grid #ValenciaGP 🏁 pic.twitter.com/4lafJKOsAq
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10:07
Raul Fernandez and Johann Zarco secure Q2 places.
Luca Marini is 13th on the grid ahead of Espargaro, Binder, Bagnaia, Martin, Oliveira, Rins, Bastianini, Vinales, Bulega, A.Fernandez and Chantra.
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10:06
Bagnaia is back into the Ducati garage and he slams the door shut on the chasing camera person. He is furious.
10:06
Chequered flag - Q1
The chequered flag is out.
10:04
Aleix Espargaro very briefly took second, but Zarco snatches it from him.
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10:04
Fernandez has an advantage of 0.525s right now. What a lap!
10:03
Binder has taken second with two minutes to go.
10:03
Mechanical - Pecco Bagnaia
Pecco Bagnaia has stopped! That is a disaster. He is out of Q2. He's been knocked down to third.
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10:02
Martin up to fourth. That's a very good effort.
10:02
Raul Fernandez blitzes the field on this lap to go top with a 1m29.036s, which puts him well clear of the field.
10:01
Martin, somehow, is lighting up the timing screens!
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10:01
Less than five minutes to go.
Bagnaia improves to second.
09:57
It's very tight at the top. The top four are covered by 0.099s!
09:56
Current Q1 order is:
- R.Fernandez
- Zarco
- Bagnaia
- Espargaro
- Oliveira
- Bastianini
- Marini
- Vinales
- Rins
- Binder
- Bulega
- Chantra
- A.Fernandez
- Martin
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09:55
But Raul Fernandez now goes top on the satellite Aprilia with a 1m29.554s.
Just under 10 minutes to go.
09:55
Zarco now goes fastest with a 1m29.586s, with Bagnaia trailing now.
09:54
Bagnaia sets the pace with his best lap of the weekend with a 1m29.732s from Zarco.
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09:53
Crash - Augusto Fernandez
Augusto Fernandez has crashed the V4 Yamaha already at Turn 10.
He did say yesterday that the lack of front-end feeling on that bike was catching him out even when not pushing.
09:50
Bagnaia leads the field out of pitlane.
09:50
2025 Valencia MotoGP - Q1 start
The opening 15-minute segment of the final qualifying session of 2025 is underway.
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09:48
The track temperature has come up to 16 degrees C ahead of this qualifying.
But expect to see a few crashes as riders push across both sessions, which will make strategy vital this morning.
