{"id":236847,"date":"2025-10-24T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236847\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:44:07","slug":"everything-that-happened-in-first-sepang-motogp-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236847\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything that happened in first Sepang MotoGP practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sudden downpour with 14 minutes of opening Malaysian Grand Prix MotoGP practice still to run meant an inconclusive start to the Sepang weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It might still go down as an encouraging session for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/motogp\/pecco-bagnaia-ducati-2025-2026-marc-marquez-injury-absence\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">troubled Pecco Bagnaia<\/a>, who set the early pace and was still second to Gresini Ducati&#8217;s Fermin Aldeguer when the rain hit.<\/p>\n<p>Aldeguer&#8217;s team-mate Alex Marquez is a favourite for victory this weekend given his usual strong form at Sepang, but he started his weekend with a fast low-side crash as he turned into the Turn 7 right-hander and was only seventh fastest.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not the ideal start to Friday for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexmarquez73?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@alexmarquez73<\/a>, who is looking to secure 2nd in the Championship this weekend \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udca5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MalaysianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MalaysianGP<\/a> \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1JY7goHdJq?ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1JY7goHdJq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MotoGP\u2122\ud83c\udfc1 (@MotoGP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MotoGP\/status\/1981559616707142058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 24, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In other crashes, Jack Miller slid his Pramac Yamaha on its side into the gravel at the final corner and there were two offs for KTM&#8217;s Pedro Acosta &#8211; the first an early tip-off at Turn 2 and then a trip deep through the gravel when the downpour started.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of riders got their wet-shod bikes prepared in time to get some exploratory mileage in the final few minutes, but that was a fraught experience as standing water was already developing &#8211; with Fabio Quartararo, Australian GP winner Raul Fernandez and Brad Binder all visiting the run-off area at Turn 12 where a particularly vicious puddle had developed on the corner entry.<\/p>\n<p>Results<\/p>\n<p>1 Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati) 2m00.199s<br \/>2 Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati) +0.256s<br \/>3 Joan Mir (Honda) +0.349s<br \/>4 Pol Espargaro (Tech3 KTM) +0.382s<br \/>5 Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) +0.392s<br \/>6 Luca Marini (Honda) +0.403s<br \/>7 Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) +0.521s<br \/>8 Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) +0.534s<br \/>9 Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha) +0.607s<br \/>10 Pedro Acosta (KTM) +0.664s<br \/>11 Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati) +0.964s<br \/>12 Brad Binder (KTM) +1.062s<br \/>13 Ai Ogura (Trackhouse Aprilia) +1.076s<br \/>14 Johann Zarco (LCR Honda) +1.114s<br \/>15 Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM) +1.139s<br \/>16 Miguel Oliveira (Pramac Yamaha) +1.200s<br \/>17 Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) +1.266s<br \/>18 Alex Rins (Yamaha) +1.380s<br \/>19 Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Aprilia) +1.558s<br \/>20 Michele Pirro (Ducati) +2.197s<br \/>21 Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia) +2.639s<br \/>22 Augusto Fernandez (Yamaha) +2.753s<br \/>23 Somkiat Chantra (LCR Honda) +2.786s<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sudden downpour with 14 minutes of opening Malaysian Grand Prix MotoGP practice still to run meant an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-236847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}