Acting! Fell twice with a motorcycle, and then took a historic tour

The pilot of the Ducati customer team recorded his second fall of the day less than 8 minutes from the beginning of the training, when he fell in the quick turn, and the Iberian had trouble staying on his feet. This incident of Marquez forced the race director, Mike Webb, to fly the red flag, because the commissioners were forced to swell the pneumatic barrier again, hit by the Spanish motorcycle.

Alex Marquez fell twice, but set an absolute new record in Andalusia

The break lasted more than 15 minutes, and after the training resumed, Marquez did not return to the track until the last quarter of an hour due to problems at the right hand wrist. Even at the end of the session, the Spaniard registered a historical tour, becoming the first pilot to get a time below 1:36 at Jerez.

The pilot of the Hissini team went down to 1: 35,991, giving up 0.103 seconds on the winner of the last three editions of the Grand Prize of Spain, Francesco Bagnaia.

Today I was maybe too confident and I fell twice. The second fall, in particular, was quite strong, although I escaped almost unharmed.

The best thing on this Friday was the reaction: I chose to stay in place for half an hour and Then return to the track only for the Time Attack session. It went well, even though we will have a lot of work tomorrow, especially in terms of the rhythm.

– Alex Marquez

Franco Morbidelli completed the podium at the end of Friday on “Jesz”, with a deficit of 0.162 seconds, and behind it, on four and five places, Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo were ranked, which were at 0.267, respectively 0.428 seconds following the first ranking.

Directly in the second phase of qualifications were also qualified Ferin Aldeguer, Johann Zarco, Pedro ACOSTA, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Joan Mir. The first pilot to miss the access to this group was Brad Binder, which was 0.055 seconds slower than my struggle for the last place in the top 10.

This sends the South African in the first phase of qualifications, where he will have Marco Bezzecchi, Jack Miller, Maverick Vinales, Alex Rins, Raul Fernandez, Ai Ogura, Luca Marini, Enea Bastianini, Augusto Fernandez, Aleix Espargaro, Lorenzo Savadori and Somkiat Chantra.

The end of today's training on “Jesz” was seriously affected by areas with yellow flags, appeared after the falls and mistakes of several pilots. On the list of those who were wrong were Mir, Vinales, Ogura, Miller and Raul Fernandez. Of these, only Mir managed to rank in the top 10, the others remaining outside the first ten positions.

The weekend of the Grand Prize of Spain, the fifth stage of season 2025 in Motogp, continues tomorrow at 11:10, with the second free training session, lasting 30 minutes. Immediately after its completion, at 11:50 am, the qualifications will begin, which will establish the starting grid for the sprint and for the race on “Jerez”.

What does pilot hierarchy look like in Motogp:

1. Marc Marquez – 123 points

2. Alex Marquez – 106

3. Francesco Bagnaia – 97

4. Franco Morbidelli – 78

5. Fabio Di Giannantonio – 48

6. Johann Zarco – 38

7. Marco Bezzecchi – 32

8. Fabio Quartararo – 30

9. You have ogura – 29

10. Luca Marini – 26

11. Pedro Acosta – 24

12. Brad Binder – 22

13. Enea Bastianini – 21

14. Fermin Aldeguer – 20

15. Jack Miller – 19

16. Alex Rins – 14

17. Joan Mir – 10

18. Maverick Vinales – 8

19. Raul Fernandez – 5

20. Augusto Fernandez – 3

21. Miguel Oliveira – 2

22. Lorenzo Savadori – 1

23. Somkiat Chantra – 0

24. Jorge Martin – 0

Team ranking:

1. Ducati – 220 points

2. Racing Hissi – 126

3. VR46 Racing – 126

4. Red Bull KTM – 46

5. Yamaha – 44

6. Honda LCR – 38

7. Honda HRC – 36

8. Trackhouse Racing Motogp – 34

9. Aprilia – 33

10. KTM TECH3 – 29

11. Pramac – 24