Marquez Tops Incident-Packed Opening Practice for Australian MotoGP
Marquez set the pace with a 1:27.985 lap as red flags, crashes and an engine failure disrupted the opening session.
- On Friday, Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi topped the Australian MotoGP practice session at Phillip Island with a time of 1m26.775s, edging out Trackhouse rider Raul Fernandez by 0.072s.
- Championship leader Jorge Martin enters the weekend with a two-point advantage over Ducati rider Marc Marquez, with five rounds remaining in the 2026 season. Martin stated he feels "fast and ready" to defend his slender lead.
- Marquez topped the morning practice session before crashing incidents disrupted the afternoon at Phillip Island. Forecasts indicate up to 20mm of rain on Saturday and 15-30mm on Sunday could significantly impact the weekend's races.
- Bezzecchi and Fernandez denied that a pre-Phillip Island meeting involving the four Aprilia riders concerned team orders. The manufacturer stated such tactics will only apply once riders are mathematically out of title contention.
- Sunday's grand prix marks the final MotoGP event at the waterfront Phillip Island circuit before the series moves to a street circuit in Adelaide next year. The venue has hosted racing since 1997.
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Marco Bezzecchi topped Practice for the Australian Grand Prix on Friday, as Aprilia emerged as the manufacturer to beat at the start of the Phillip Island weekend.Bezzecchi, fresh off his victory in Indonesia a fortnight ago, stormed to the top with a blistering time of 1m26.775s, edging out the satellite Trackhouse bike of Raul Fernandez by just under a tenth of a second.Marc Marquez ...Keep reading
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Marquez tops incident-packed opening practice for Australian MotoGP
World champion Marc Marquez topped the timesheets in an incident-packed first practice at the Australian MotoGP on Friday ahead of Raul Fernandez and Jack Miller who both took nasty tumbles.
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Face to face, they are the two great favorites, they only separate two points in favor of the Madridian Jorge Martín (Aprilia) against the Catalan Marc Márquez (Ducati). They are two champions, ‘Martinator’ was in 2024 in a hard fight with the Italian Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati), he also drove, then, a ‘Desmosedici’. Márquez adds up to seven titles of the maximum category, six with Honda and, the last, perhaps the one he values most for b…
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