Marco Bezzecchi led Aprilia 1-2 forward of Ai Ogura on the ultimate day of Buriram MotoGP testing, whereas Marc Marquez completed third regardless of scoring a hat-trick on this weekend’s crash.
After simply 5 days of official apply this winter, pre-season testing has concluded forward of the 2026 season, which begins with subsequent weekend’s Thai Grand Prix.
Alex Marquez led the Ducati on Saturday’s first day of testing in Buriram, nevertheless it was overhauled by Aprilia in direction of the tip of Sunday’s run.
With about quarter-hour remaining, Marco Bezzecchi led his manufacturing facility group Aprilia to a time of 1 minute 28.813 seconds, breaking the lap document to 1 minute 28.765 seconds.
Trackhouse Aprilia stablemate Ai Ogura moved into second place within the closing phases, however missed out on the highest spot by simply 0.097 seconds.
Ducati’s Marc Marquez set the early tempo inside the first hour on Sunday with a time of 1 minute 28.836 seconds to complete within the prime three.
This time served because the benchmark for a lot of the day, as a lot of the sector centered on future tempo forward of subsequent week’s Grand Prix.
Marquez, who was nonetheless recovering from sickness, crashed at Flip 3 with lower than two hours remaining, reducing his future to simply seven laps.
The reigning world champion later defined that this was as a result of a scarcity of focus.
Shortly after, his brother Alex Marquez crashed his Gresini Ducati at Flip 9, inflicting the session to be briefly red-flagged.
The pair look to be in higher form in comparison with this time final yr, with Pecco Bagnaia sandwiched in for fourth place general on the ultimate day of testing.
KTM prime rider Pedro Acosta was sixth and VR46 Ducati’s Franco Morbidelli was seventh.
Jorge Martin completed within the prime eight for Aprilia and is gearing up for his first Thai Grand Prix in two years.
Fabio Di Giannantonio completed ninth in his sister VR46 entry within the 2026 Ducati, whereas Joan Mir completed tenth within the prime Honda.
Yamaha’s struggles continued, with Pramac’s Jack Miller as soon as once more taking middle stage, however the brand new V4 engine was solely capable of end in sixteenth place.
The tempo dropped by a couple of second, and he and Fabio Quartararo had been capable of break into the 1:29 vary within the closing phases, at the very least for the primary time on this check.
LCR Honda’s Diogo Moreira was the quickest rookie in nineteenth place, whereas Pramac’s Toprak Razgatlioglu was twenty first.
The 2026 MotoGP season will start in Thailand from February twenty seventh to March 1st.
Full outcomes of the 2026 MotoGP Buriram check
