by Marco Bezzecchi ended an unpredictable and crash-filled opening day of the Indonesian Grand Prix weekend at the top, while newly crowned 2025 MotoGP champion Marc Marquez missed the Q1 for the first time this year missed crashing twice.
Luca Marini started the pace early for Honda in the one-hour exercise session and immediately immersed them under his FP1 benchmark with a time of 1m30,738s. He found an hour and a half shortly thereafter to stretch his advantage before KTM’s Pedro Acosta shot to the top with a 1m30,435s.
Aprilia’s Bezzecchi then became the first rider to broke the barrier of the 90s and shot in a 1m29.903s just before the half point to move the goal posts. The Italian then continued to a 1m29,840s and placed four tenths between himself and his close rival at that time, Acosta.
With 13 minutes remaining, Acosta won briefly back, but Bezzecchi responded immediately with a flyer of 1m29.240 around the Mandalika circuit.
That time would remain unbeaten until the end of the session, because the British doctor winner came out of his nearest rival more than four tenths.
On a day on which the Ducati team was struggling, Gresini’s Fermin Aldeguer finished a solid second on last year’s GP24, which eliminated the top KTM of Acosta with 0.016s.
Honda continued the momentum of his Japan stage, with Marini improved to fourth place at the end of the session. Earlier on Friday, the Italian had set the fastest time on fresh tires in FP1.
Marini’s efforts were supplemented with teammate Joan Mir, who ended a solid sixth and only 0.038s slower than his teammate.
Although Aprilia is only two bicycles this weekend after the recordings of Jorge Martin and Ai Ogura, it enjoyed a strong run in Friday’s practice, while Raul Fernandez pushed the only trackhouse-run RS-GP between the two Hondas.
Marc Marquez, Ducati Team
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Both factory -yamaha riders also earned direct access to Q2, because champion Fabio Quartararo from 2021 and teammate Alex Rins respectively finished seventh and eighth.
Miguel Oliveira immediately ended up behind the two on his Pramac Yamaha, while Alex Marquez completed the top 10 despite the suffering of a big crash on turn 12 with three minutes to go.
The biggest storyline on Friday, however, was involved with his brother Marc Marquez, who could only manage the 11th fastest time of the day on a song where he never finished a Grand Prix.
Marquez hit the deck for the first time on bend 1 in the opening 10 minutes of the session, but was able to quickly set up his bike and continue. However, after being relegated to the bottom of the order in the aftermath of that leak, the Ducati Rider factory crashed heavily at the exit of Turn 5 just after halfway through practice.
Only in the last 18 minutes of the session did he return to the track on his second bicycle and, although he initially came into the top 10, others finally dropped him just outside the Q2 closure.
His teammate Francesco Bagnaia has also passed a tough day in Indonesia, only five days after his dominant Japan victory, because he ended 17th in both sessions and more than 1.2 seconds of the outright afternoon pace.
Indonesian general practitioner – Friday exercise results:
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