Native hero Jack Miller took the lead in opening apply for the 2025 Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island on Friday morning, beating Alex Marquez by simply 0.036 seconds after sporting new rubber late within the session.
Miller was in a position to outperform long-time chief Marquez because of new tires. The Gresini rider switched from a used delicate entrance to a brand new medium entrance, however saved the identical medium rear to the tip.
2025 Australian MotoGP, Phillip Island – Friday apply outcomes
Alex, who was seeking to safe second place within the World Championship behind his absent brother Marc, emerged unscathed from the horrifying second when he clipped Miguel Oliveira’s rear wheel in flip one.
The incident was investigated, presumably to find out whether or not Oliveira had irresponsibly slowed down, and “no additional motion can be taken”.
KTM’s Pedro Acosta, Gresini’s Mandalica winner Fermin Aldeguer and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo set the quickest instances among the many riders who saved the identical set of tires (delicate entrance, medium rear) all through FP1.
Marco Bezzecchi can be handed a double serve lengthy lap penalty after colliding with Marc Marquez at Mandalica on Sunday, however he set the early tempo for Aprilia to maneuver as much as sixth place and match a brand new delicate entrance for the ultimate run.
Bagnaiya improves after shaky begin
Francesco Bagnaia’s weekend acquired off to a shaky begin, actually, with the manufacturing facility Ducati rider heading straight again to the pits and gesturing angrily that his GP25 was shaking violently once more.
The Italian delivered the identical verdict much more vehemently after his subsequent run, and staff supervisor Davide Tardozzi walked away in dissatisfaction.
Nonetheless, Bagnaia, the one rider aside from Tech3 substitute Pol Espargaro to start out on a medium entrance tire slightly than a delicate, was then in a position to considerably improve his tempo.
Bagnaia briefly cracked the highest 4 on his strategy to seventh (+0.275 seconds) after sticking with the identical set of medium tires all through.
Johann Zarco additionally didn’t change rubber on his strategy to eighth place among the many Honda leaders in a session by which HRC’s Joan Mir ran off the monitor with smoke spewing from the higher exhaust of his RC213V.
VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio, who led the session from the start, and KTM’s Brad Binder completed within the high 10.
Trackhouse Aprilia’s Raul Fernández was eleventh, one of the best rider after Miller, and was fitted with new tires entrance and rear on the final run of the morning.
Franco Morbidelli was the primary to crash of the weekend at Flip 1.
Apply to find out direct participation in Saturday’s Qualifying 2 begins at 3pm native time.
