Luca Marini leads a hot and slippery opening practice for the 2025 Indonesian MotoGP at Mandalika.

The HRC rider shot to the top on new medium rubber, front and rear, with Pedro Acosta likewise putting a new medium front (but old rear) to claim a late second place.

Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi led most of the session and – like next best Alex Rins and newly crowned champion Marc Marquez – kept the same hard front and medium rear tyres throughout.

Motegi winner Francesco Bagnaia was just 17th fastest, but also kept old rubber.

2025 Indonesian MotoGP, Mandalika – Free Practice (1) ResultsPosRiderNatTeamTime/DiffLapMax1Luca MariniITAHonda HRC Castrol (RC213V)1’30.809s19/20316k2Pedro AcostaSPARed Bull KTM (RC16)+0.136s19/20320k3Marco BezzecchiITAAprilia Racing (RS-GP25)+0.237s22/22315k4Alex RinsSPAMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1)+0.426s22/23313k5Marc MarquezSPADucati Lenovo (GP25)+0.462s9/21319k6Jack MillerAUSPramac Yamaha (YZR-M1)+0.499s21/21315k7Fabio QuartararoFRAMonster Yamaha (YZR-M1)+0.533s22/23313k8Fabio Di GiannantonioITAPertamina VR46 Ducati (GP25)+0.607s20/20316k9Joan MirSPAHonda HRC Castrol (RC213V)+0.643s21/21317k10Alex MarquezSPABK8 Gresini Ducati (GP24)+0.678s19/21316k11Raul FernandezSPATrackhouse Aprilia (RS-GP25)+0.718s13/17309k12Franco MorbidelliITAPertamina VR46 Ducati (GP24)+0.809s15/21317k13Johann ZarcoFRACastrol Honda LCR (RC213V)+0.811s9/20316k14Brad BinderRSARed Bull KTM (RC16)+0.897s19/20316k15Maverick ViñalesSPARed Bull KTM Tech3 (RC16)+0.931s18/18317k16Fermin AldeguerSPABK8 Gresini Ducati (GP24)*+1.001s12/12312k17Francesco BagnaiaITADucati Lenovo (GP25)+1.091s20/20319k18Enea BastianiniITARed Bull KTM Tech3 (RC16)+1.304s14/19318k19Miguel OliveiraPORPramac Yamaha (YZR-M1)+1.416s20/21314k20Somkiat ChantraTHAIdemitsu Honda LCR (RC213V)*+1.442s9/20313k

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* Rookie

Official Mandalika MotoGP Records:

Best lap: Jorge Martin, Ducati, 1m 29.088s (2024)

Fastest race lap: Enea Bastianini, Ducati, 1m 30.539s (2024)

Marc Marquez needs to win two of the remaining five grands prix to beat his record of 13 wins in a season (2014).

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After victories earlier this season in Austria, Mandalika and Portimao are the only circuits on the current calendar that Marquez has not yet won at.

However, his first grand prix target will be to finish, having never seen a Sunday chequered flag at Mandalika in his three previous visits. Marquez’s only Indonesian result so far is third in last year’s Sprint race, as a Gresini rider.

Meanwhile, the battle for second is getting closer with team-mate Francesco Bagnaia now 66 points behind Alex Marquez after a perfect weekend in Motegi.

Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi lost ground in Japan, after being taken out by team-mate Jorge Martin in the Sprint, and is a further 32 points from Bagnaia.

Martin, last year’s pole and grand prix winner, is missing this weekend after undergoing surgery for a right collarbone fracture sustained in last weekend’s accident.

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Rookie Ai Ogura, who withdrew from his home Japanese Grand Prix last Sunday due to ongoing pain from the wrist injury at Misano, also remains out of action.
 

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