2025 Official Sepang MotoGP test: Franco Morbidelli tops day two, Marc Marquez crashes
VR46🐼 Ducati꧑ rider leads the way on Thursday in Malaysia
Franco Morbidelli guided his VR46-run Ducati GP24 to top spot on day two of the 2025 Sepang MotoGP test, as factory counterpa🐲rt Marc Marquez suffered a late𝓡 crash.
After a dramatic opening day on Wednesday that saw reign𒊎ing world champion Jorge Martin, Trackhouse Racing’s Raul Fernandez and VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio ruled out through injury, Thursday appeared much more calm.
Morbidelli annexed the top of the timesheeဣts for much of the day, takܫing over top spot in the second hour with a 1m57.210s.
That lap, despite a late time attack effort on fresh rubber fro𒉰m Morbidelli, would go unchallenged as the chequered flag brought the session to a close at 6pm local time.
Morbidelli, who will con🦩tinue to race the GP24 he rode la🅰st year, headed former Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo.
The 2021 world𒆙 champion continued to look strong on the M1, with Quartararo jumping up to second late on🌠 with a 1m57.324s.
Gresini Racing duo Alex Maౠrquez and rookie team-mate Fermin Aldeguer were third and fourth on their GP24s.
Aldeguer only did 26 laps on Thursday, having taken part in the shakedown, with his Greꦰsini team electing to bench him early as not let him overstep the mark.
Factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia 🃏completed 𒁃the top five.
Bagnaia managed 42 laps in Thursday 🎉with a best time of 1m57.652s, though did have a small off earlier in the day.
Both factory Ducati team riders found the 𒊎gravel trap a🍬cross Thursday, with Bagnaia’s team-mate Marc Marquez taking a tumble in the closing 15 minutes of the session.
The eight-time grand prix world champion was unharꦚmed in the accident and was 14th on a 1m58.447s, having been unable to complete the personal best lap he was on at the time of his fall.
Jo🐼an Mir was once again sixth on the factory Honda, while Pedro Acosta - who crashed on Thursday - was the leading KTM ri🔯der in seventh ahead of Pramac Yamaha’s Miguel Oliveira.
Marco Bezzecchi was the leading Aprilia in ninth on a 1m57.995s, having improved from a 1m5ꦆ9.207s on Thursday on his new factor꧃y RS-GP.
Jack Miller completed the top 10 on the sister Pramac Yamꦉaha, with the Australian seen evaluating a new Yamaha chassis on day two of the official test.
Michele Pirro has been drafted in to replace Di Giannantonio and wasꦆ 21st after 46 laps, while Aprilia put Lorenzo Savadori on track in Martin’s absence.
The Italian was last on the timesheets✃ after 51🃏 laps.
