2025 British MotoGP, Silverstone - Friday Practice Results

* Rookie

Official Silverstone MotoGP Records:

Best lap: Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1m 57.309s (2024)

Fastest race lap: Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1m 58.895s (2024)

Alex Marquez snatches P1 away from Fabio Quartararo on his last lap of Friday practice for the 2025 British MotoGP.

The final five minutes looked more like a race, with a long line of riders jostling for the optimum slipstream in cool, gusty conditions.

When the chequered flag waved, the Gresini rider was just 0.047s clear of Quartararo, with Jack Miller making it two Yamahas in the top three.

Like Miller, title leader Marc Marquez recovered from a fall to easily claim direct Qualifying 2 access in fourth.

Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi, VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio, factory Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia and Le Mans winner Johann Zarco filled 5th to 8th places.

Alex Rins made it three M1s in the Friday top ten for the first time since 2021, with Marquez's rookie Gresini team-mate Fermin Aldeguer the final rider with a confirmed Q2 place.

But there was late heartbreak for Pedro Acosta, Joan Mir, Miguel Oliveira and Maverick Vinales, who were pushed into Saturday’s Qualifying 1.

Miller was an early faller with Marquez, the only rider in the 1m 58s this morning, then crashing at Turn 3, moments after moving into third behind Bezzecchi and Rins (on soft rear tyres).

Franco Morbidelli, second to Marquez in FP1, also fell soon after, with strong gusts of wind a likely factor in the cool late-afternoon temperatures.

Bezzecchi continued to lead the timesheets until Vinales and then Mir burst ahead in quick succession, on new soft rubber, with 25 minutes to go.

di Giannantonio then saw the first 1m 57s lap of the weekend deleted due to exceeding track limits.

Mir, riding with neck and finger injuries from Le Mans, kept Honda on top until former team-mate Marquez leapt ahead with 15 minutes to go.

Rins, who pipped Marquez to victory in 2019, was towed to second while riding in the Desmosedici’s exhaust fumes.

Another Honda, this time of wet Le Mans winner Zarco, briefly retaliated by rocketing from 16th to 1st before Marquez snatched the position back by just 0.036s.

di Giannantonio then made amends for the earlier cancellation with a 1m 57.699s.

By contrast, Bezzecchi’s sixth place time was lost for touching the green, before he stuck back to go fastest as the final ten minutes began.

Alex Marquez, who starts the weekend 22 points behind his brother, then stole P1 away as most of the field prepared to leave the pits for their final run.

Quartararo looked to have had the final word, before Alex Marquez settled the contest in his favour with a new all-time lap record.

A sore Ai Ogura, who limped away from a fast accident at Turn 2 this morning, abandoned the afternoon session due to right knee pain.

Meanwhile, Morbidelli is under investigation for obstructing Bezzecchi and may well face a penalty.

* Rookie

Official Silverstone MotoGP Records:

Best lap: Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1m 57.309s (2024)

Fastest race lap: Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1m 58.895s (2024)

MotoGP title leader Marc Marquez kicked off his quest for a first Silverstone win since 2014 on top of the timesheets during FP1 for the British Grand Prix.

Marquez's only issue came after the session, when he nursed his GP25 back to the pits with a technical problem and was forced to miss the practice start session, where riders gather data for their holeshot devices.

Nonetheless, the factory Ducati star was the only rider in the 1m 58s in FP1, finishing 0.365s clear of VR46’s Franco Morbidelli, who fitted new rubber for his final run.

Morbidelli demoted Alex Marquez’s Gresini machine from second on his last lap, with Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi, Pramac Yamaha’s Jack Miller and Tech3 KTM’s Maverick Vinales completing the top six.

Fabio Quartararo - who used some new aero tweaks this morning - had to sit out the opening ten minutes of FP1 for an argument with marshals while attempting to re-join after crashing in his home French GP.

The Frenchman finished seventh fastest, ahead of Francesco Bagnaia, who was 0.842s from team-mate Marquez.

Rookie Ai Ogura walked away from a fast accident at turn 2 at the end of the session.

2023 Silverstone winner Aleix Espargaro is making his second HRC wild-card appearance of the season.

Somkiat Chantra is returning from arm pump surgery - and fell after the session, on his way around for a second practice start. 

Injured reigning world champion Jorge Martin continues to be replaced by Aprilia test rider Lorenzo Savadori.

Last year's double Silverstone winner Enea Bastianini has a long lap penalty to serve in Sunday’s race for colliding with Bagnaia at the first chicane of the French Grand Prix.