2025 Spanish MotoGP, Jerez - Friday Practice Results

* Rookie

Official Jerez MotoGP Records:

Best lap: Francesco Bagnaia Ducati 1m 36.025s (2024)

Fastest race lap: Francesco Bagnaia Ducati 1m 37.449s (2024)

Alex Marquez brought out red flags after a fast early accident in Friday afternoon practice for the 2025 Spanish MotoGP at Jerez.

But the sore Spaniard returned to top the timesheets with a new lap record in the closing stages.

Alex was chasing brother Marc when he fell and damaged the airfence at Turn 5.

The Gresini rider’s second accident of the day left Alex staggering through the gravel trap. He was able to get a scooter ride back to the pits but was nursing his right arm and missed the middle stages of the hour.

The final 15 minutes began with Fabio Quartararo fastest from Maverick Vinales and Marc Marquez (still on an old medium rear tyre), but with the entire top ten covered by just 0.463s.

Quartararo was on the verge of improving with a new set of tyres but lost the front at the very final corner, yellow flags from which cancelled laps for other riders. 

Once the M1 had been cleared, Quartararo was dumped from first to eighth in the space of a few minutes.

The final run began with Marc Marquez fastest from Franco Morbidelli. The hectic closing laps saw accidents for Jack Miller, Ai Ogura, Raul Fernandez and Joan Mir while Francesco Bagnaia briefly went fastest before Alex Marquez completed a remarkable recovery with a new 1m 35.991s lap record.

Title leader Marc Marquez made a late leg-off save on his way to fourth.

Quartararo made it back out on his repaired bike to secure fifth.

Binder, Bezzecchi, Miller and Vinales were among those to miss the top ten and will be part of Saturday's Qualifying 1 line-up.

* Rookie

Official Jerez MotoGP Records:

Best lap: Francesco Bagnaia Ducati 1m 36.025s (2024)

Fastest race lap: Francesco Bagnaia Ducati 1m 37.449s (2024)

Alex Marquez overcomes a fall to set the fastest lap time in in opening practice for the 2025 Spanish MotoGP at Jerez.

The Gresini rider returned to the top in the final ten minutes, outpacing brother Marc by 0.357s with new rubber on his spare Gresini GP24.

Riding at the scene of his career-threatening 2020 accident, Marc Marquez suffered early technical problems on both his bikes and found himself outside the top ten by the halfway point of the 45-minute session.

However, the world championship leader rebounded in style, vaulting to the top of the timesheets before Alex retaliated.

Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo and Tech3 KTM’s Maverick Viñales - who lost a podium in Qatar to a tyre pressure penalty - joined Honda’s Joan Mir and Pramac’s Jack Miller in a competitive top six comprising all five different brands.

Francesco Bagnaia, winner of the Spanish MotoGP for the past three seasons, began the weekend in seventh.

Pedro Acosta, who said he is sticking with the '2024' KTM switch he made last time in Qatar, was just 19th.

Aleix Espargaro is making his Honda MotoGP debut as a wild-card this weekend, running prototype parts on his RC213V. 

A triple MotoGP winner for Aprilia, Espargaro switched to HRC testing duties after retiring as a full-time rider at the end of last year. The Spaniard was eleventh in FP1.

Jorge Martin’s Qatar injuries mean test rider Lorenzo Savadori is again replacing the reigning world champion at Aprilia.

Yamaha test rider Augusto Fernandez is likewise standing in for the injured Miguel Oliveira at Pramac, for the third event in a row.

The first official in-season MotoGP test of the 2025 season takes place at Jerez on Monday.