Pre-weekend favorite Marco Bezzecchi began the Indonesian MotoGP weekend strongly as he clinched prime spot in FP1.
Unsurprisingly given its tempo round Mandalika final season and its basic type in 2026, the Aprilia riders began the weekend off strongly.
Bezzecchi’s banker lap was marginally faster than team-mate Jorge Martin, as he led nearly all of FP1 and went even sooner on his last run to safe prime spot with a 1:30.132.
Marc Marquez produced a late lap to maneuver into second and break up the Aprilia riders, with Martin taking third and 0.266s off his team-mate.
Pedro Acosta put himself into the combination in fourth, simply 0.030s behind Martin’s finest lap time, whereas Raul Fernandez accomplished the highest 5.
In a house race for its sponsors, the VR46 staff began strongly in sixth and seventh as Franco Morbidelli led Fabio Di Giannantonio, as Fabio Quartararo slotted into eighth.
Fermin Aldeguer crashed within the session however took ninth forward of team-mate Alex Marquez, who accomplished the highest 10 forward of an excellent begin to the weekend for Eleventh-placed Alex Rins.
Enea Bastianini was twelfth, whereas Francesco Bagnaia was the ultimate rider inside a second of Bezzecchi’s time however was annoyed in thirteenth.
Johann Zarco was 14th whereas Toprak Razgatlioglu took fifteenth, however might have discovered himself in hassle with the stewards after forcing Bagnaia into the gravel whereas cruising.
Brad Binder break up the Pramac Yamaha team-mates as he slotted into sixteenth forward of Jack Miller, whereas Luca Marini completed in 18th.
Maverick Vinales was nineteenth on the chequered flag, with Diogo Moreira twentieth after crashing round quarter-hour into the session.
Ai Ogura suffered a heavy crash halfway by the session and took twenty first, whereas Aleix Espargaro stood in for Joan Mir and accomplished the standings in twenty second.
