This weekend Augusto Fernández will spearhead the Yamaha Racing MotoGP Test Team as a wild-card rider at Round 20 of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship, held at the Sepang International Circuit. His main aim for this weekend is to continue collecting data on the V4-powered prototype in a premier-class race-weekend setting.

Sepang (Malaysia), 22 October 2025

Yamaha is pleased to confirm that Augusto Fernández and the Yamaha Racing MotoGP Test Team will take part in the Grand Prix of Malaysia weekend as a wild-card entry. They will use the available track time to gather further data to boost the V4-powered prototype development, building upon their work done in Misano in September.

Fernández, who is the 2022 Moto2 World Champion and a former premier-class rider (2023-2024), already joined the full-time Yamaha teams as a wild-card rider three times before this year, in Aragon, Brno, and Misano, testing the V4-powered prototype at the latter occasion. The Spaniard is highly motivated to continue his endeavours this weekend with the Yamaha Racing MotoGP Test Team at the track where he scored a best result of fourth place in Moto2 in 2022. His best premier-class result in Malaysia was last year’s 10th position.

The Sepang International Circuit staged its first Grand Prix in 1999 and has been on the MotoGP calendar ever since. The 5.5km track has a reputation for providing very exciting racing thanks to a mixture of slow and medium-to-high-speed corners (five left and ten right) and two long straights, the longest measuring 920m. The circuit is also one of the longest tracks of the MotoGP season, and the riders have to negotiate it in extremely hot and humid conditions, making this GP extra challenging.

The Grand Prix of Malaysia is held in the GMT+8 time zone. FP1 will take place on Friday from 10:45-11:30 local track time and Practice will be held from 15:00-16:00. On Saturday, FP2 will be held from 10:10-10:40, and the qualifying sessions from 10:50-11:30, followed by the 10-lap Sprint that starts at 15:00. On Sunday*, Warm Up is held from 10:40-10:50 and the 20-lap Race starts at 15:00.

*On Sunday, October 26th, daylight saving time will start in Europe. The clocks in Malaysia do not change, increasing the time difference between Malaysia and Europe by one hour for the Sunday.