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Alex Marquez led the way in which on the opening day of the Thailand MotoGP check in Buriram, whereas his elder brother Marc Marquez recovered from two early crashes to complete second.

Gresini rider Alex Marquez picked up the place he left off in Sepang, setting a greatest time of 1m29.262s within the penultimate hour to high the timesheets. Though a number of rivals made enhancements late within the day, the youthful Marquez held on to the highest spot by 0.129s.

The Buriram check received off to a vigorous begin within the morning session, with a number of riders breaking the 1m30s barrier. Marc Marquez, Pedro Acosta and Luca Marini all held the highest spot at one level, but it surely was Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia who set the benchmark within the three-hour session, a 1m29.678s.

Bagnaia’s time remained unbeaten till about three hours left within the afternoon operating, when Marco Bezzecchi climbed to the highest with a 1m29.462s on the Aprilia RS-GP.

The ultimate two hours of the session noticed a late onslaught from the Ducati riders, with Alex Marquez going quickest of all on his factory-spec GP26 to cement his place as one of many pre-season favourites. His time, nevertheless, was a way off the circuit file (1m28.700s), set by Bagnaia en path to pole place within the 2024 Thai GP.

Reigning world champion Marc Marquez’s day received off to a poor begin, as he crashed at Flip 1 simply 20 minutes in, earlier than happening once more at Flip 5 just a few hours later.

However the Spaniard rebounded after the lunch break to go second-quickest, courtesy of a late flier of 1m29.391s on his manufacturing facility Ducati.

Marc Marquez, Ducati Crew

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VR46’s Franco Morbidelli was one other rider to enhance within the remaining half-hour of the day, the Italian going 0.011s sooner than Bezzecchi to demote the Aprilia rider to fourth.

Honda loved a stable outing on day one at Buriram, with LCR’s Johann Zarco and manufacturing facility rider Joan Mir ending fifth and seventh respectively – separated by the Trackhouse bike of Raul Fernandez.

KTM additionally surged to the highest 10 within the remaining hour, with Tech3’s Maverick Vinales climbing to eighth place forward of VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio.

Bagnaia couldn’t enhance his morning benchmark and dropped to tenth within the total order, simply forward of Brad Binder’s KTM.

Buriram noticed Aprilia’s Jorge Martin experience a MotoGP bike for the primary time since November’s check, following an prolonged damage layoff within the winter. The 2024 MotoGP champion wound up in thirteenth, over half a second off the outright tempo.

Fabio Quartararo additionally made a comeback in Buriram after lacking many of the Sepang check attributable to a finger damage. Driving the brand new V4-powered M1, he completed 18th, one spot forward of Pramac’s Jack Miller on the same-spec bike.

The 22-bike discipline was propped up by Ducati check rider Michele Pirro, who substituted for the injured Fermin Aldeguer at Gresini.

Saturday’s motion was punctuated by two temporary pink flags. The session was first stopped attributable to an air fence situation at Flip 1, earlier than monitor circumstances once more pressured all riders to return to the storage at the beginning of the ultimate hour.