2025 Americas MotoGP: Marc Marquez dominates wet-to-dry Practice at COTA
Chꦅampionship leader fastest in second p🦩ractice at Americas MotoGP
Fa🦹ctory Ducati MotoGP rider Marc Marquez dominated a wet-to-dry Practice at the 2025 Americas Grand Prix, as Pecco Bagnaia was 1.5s adrift in 10th.
After the wet conditions of FP1, the rain had stopped in time for the hour-long Practice and a dry line was appearing as pitlane opened for the se🍨cond session of the day.
While the early laps were completed on wet tyres, slicks were called for after just 20 minutes of running, with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez using them to full effecꦿt to dominateꦆ the session.
The championship leader was 0.736s clear of the field with a 2m02.929s, with the VR46 Ducati duo of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Di Giannantonio and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli his nearest challenger.
Marquez’s team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia spent the fi♐nal moments of Practice hovering around the danger zone as he battled for a p✱lace directly in Q2 qualifying.
As the chequered flag came out, Bagnaia was pushed back to 10th, but held onto a Q2 place by 0.120s over Yamaha’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo.
After 10 minutes of running in Practice, Marc Marquez set the pace at 2m13.4𓂃56s on wet tyres, though the likes of Alex Marquez, Morbidelli and Joan Mir would demote him over ൲the following moments.
Honda’s Luca Marini and Pramac Yamaha’s Jack Miller we𒅌re the first riders out on slicks in the session with 40 minutes remaining.
Miller went top immediately on his first lap ওwith a 2m12.613s, which led to the rest of the field ditching their wet tyres.
With 25 minutes remaini♑ng, Marc Marquez returned to the 🍨top of the order with a 2m08.327s on his first slick tyre lap.
He would trade top spot ཧwith Gresini’s Alex Marquez and Miller, but would ultimately see💜 out the session fastest of all with a 2m02.929s.
This put Marc Marquez 0.736s clear of th♔e field, with Di Giannantonio making a late leap to second.
Team-ma🦩te Morbidelli had pitted with just over three minutes to go, which threw his Q2 hopes into doubt.
But a final lap of 2m03🌊.766s saw him jump up to third 𓂃ahead of Gresini duo Alex Marquez and rookie team-mate Fermin Aldeguer.
Miller was sixth 𒁃and the only Ya🦩maha through to Q2 so far, with Pedro Acosta the leading KTM in seventh ahead of Tech3’s Maverick Vinales.
Joan Mir was ninth on the factory Honda, with Bagnaia na♛rrowly holding onto a Q2 place on the sister factory team 🦄Ducati.
The late improvements for the VR46 pair knocked Quartararo out of꧒ the Q2 p♍laces, with the Yamaha rider facing Q1 alongside the likes of Brad Binder (KTM), Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) and Ai Ogura (Trackhouse).
Marini failed to do much with his early slick tyre 💎switch and was only 15th at the chequered flag, while 2023 COTA winner Alex Rins was a distant 17th.
A late crash for LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco ended his Q2 hopes and left him 20th in the sessiওon.
