2025 Thailand MotoGP Test Results—Day Two
Top on Day 1 and top on Day 2, that’s a clean sweep for Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo Team) in the Buriram Test. His 1:28.855 is the only lap in that bracket from the event, although it’s still just shy of now-teammate Francesco Bagnaia’s lap record 1:28.700 in the GP here last year. Bagnaia was fifth at this test.
Davide Tardozzi also confirmed that the only 2025 parts to be on the bike for Round 1 are electronics and suspension updates… meaning they’ve decided to stay with engine, chassis and aero from 2024, for now at least on most counts. Engine means they’re now locked in until the end of 2026.
The GP24 that has proved almost too good to improve was in second with Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP), who takes second at this test in another serious showing at a different track to his often more specialist venue of Sepang.
Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing) was third fastest overall and impressing many up and down pitlane as he settles in at the Noale factory. His 1:29.060 is the quickest Aprilia have ever been at Buriram, and it’s the biggest improvement of all the factories who managed the same, namely Aprilia, KTM and Honda. Bezzecchi’s Sprint simulation was also pretty impressive.
Test rider Lorenzo Savadori also added more laps and data, and so did Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse MotoGP Team) despite being on the road to recovery after his crash in Sepang. He was upbeat about the extra track time and ended the test in a solid P13.
Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) likewise took his factory the fastest they’ve been, a 1:29.133 to end the test just off Bezzecchi in third. The #37 seems to have the early edge on new teammate Brad Binder for the moment, who was P12 but the South African says he also left time on the table during his time attacks.
After a challenging pre-season in some ways, Maverick Viñales seems to be settling in at Red Bull KTM Tech3 and moved into the top ten ith a key step. Teammate Enea Bastianini remains looking for a little more. As can often be the case given how they work, KTM seem to be one of the more unknown quantities heading into Round 1. Previously, that’s sometimes been a nasty surprise for their rivals.
If Yamaha stole the headlines in Sepang, Honda did so in Buriram. Joan Mir (Honda HRC Castrol) took P6 with the fastest lap any Honda has ever done at Buriram. Even more pleasing than the time attack was a Sprint simulation that rivalled the likes of Aprilia and KTM. Luca Marini (Honda HRC Castrol) was P14 and Johann Zarco (Castrol Honda LCR) was P16, not putting in big time attacks on Thursday.
Sepang showed a big step forward for Yamaha, but just as Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) said, Buriram may prove a little tougher and it did. Still, the Frenchman was P8 and unlike Honda, Yamaha didn’t test at the venue beforehand. Jack Miller (Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP) was next up for the Iwata factory in P10, whereas his teammate Miguel Oliveira was P19, just trailing Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) in P17. We can likely expect more as the time attacks rolls out at the race weekend, however.
Ai Ogura (Trackhouse MotoGP Team) was the fastest rookie. A 1:29.6 defeats Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Racing MotoGP)’s 1:30, but the two have been duelling throughout pre-season. Home hero Somkiat Chantra continued to progress too, shaving more laptime off on his IDEMITSU Honda LCR machine.
2025 Thailand MotoGP Test Results
| 1 | Marc Marquez | Ducati | 1:28.855s |
| 2 | Alex Marquez | Ducati | +0.179s |
| 3 | Marco Bezzecchi | Aprilia | +0.205s |
| 4 | Pedro Acosta | KTM | +0.278s |
| 5 | Francesco Bagnaia | Ducati | +0.523s |
2025 Thailand MotoGP Test Results—Day One
Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo Team) can’t be accused of sandbagging in Buriram. If he is, the low Jaws music isn’t loud enough yet. 0.465 clear at the top, it’s the first time he’s been P1 on a test day since Jerez 2020. Next up was another Ducati: Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing MotoGP), who can likely take even more from that at a venue that’s not Sepang, which is one of his best. Third it’s a Ducati triple threat with Franco Morbidelli (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team). But there’s plenty happening.
At Ducati, the engine choice for 2025 – even more vital since that’s frozen for 2026 too – rolls on. It’s chiefly in the hands of Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) and Marc Marquez, or the feedback they give, but there is that small detail that last year’s Ducati was arguably so far ahead anyway… they may still prove so even if they don’t field everything they’ve been trying or much else. Bagnaia was eighth on Day 1 with a low 1:30, some space off his own lap record here.
Rookie Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Racing MotoGP), the final rider on a Ducati at the test, did a 1:30.373 to take P14 and reopen the duel of the debutants as Ai Ogura (Trackhouse MotoGP Team) was just 0.080 behind.
Speaking of Aprilia, it was a promising day for the Noale factory. After the high drama of the start to the Sepang Test and the ongoing absence of reigning Champion Jorge Martin, a lot has come down to Marco Bezzecchi and the Italian put his Aprilia Racing machine in fourth overall, a big step up on the timesheets at least. He sounds pretty positive about it too, and is sharing the box with test rider Lorenzo Savadori. Ogura’s teammate Raul Fernandez was also back out for Trackhouse MotoGP Team after being declared fit, and he managed to do a fair few laps and got into the 1:30s despite being on the road to recovery.
At KTM, Pedro Acosta led the way – fifth overall and into the 1:29s. His Tissot Sprint simulation looked positive too, with an average laptime around four tenths quicker than Red Bull KTM Factory Racing teammate Brad Binder at the GP in 2024. At the test, Binder was ninth overall, denied entry to the 1:29 club by hundredths. At Red Bull KTM Tech3, Enea Bastianini and Maverick Viñales continued to look to better adapt, in P16 and P18 respectively by the end of play. Between the two, Miguel Oliveira (Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP), another finding his way on new machinery.
His teammate Jack Miller was further up the timesheets in P10 and was actually the top Yamaha on Day 1. Alex Rins and Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) were P12 and P13 respectively, but how much more will we see on Day 2?
Meanwhile, Honda had a really positive showing on the timesheets. Luca Marini (Honda HRC Castrol) took P6 and Johann Zarco (Castrol Honda LCR) P7 – the final riders into the 1:29 bracket. Faster than Honda have ever been here before on a day where that wasn’t true for others, the positive signs continued. Joan Mir (Honda HRC Castrol) was P11 and rookie Somkiat Chantra (Idemitsu Honda LCR) continued chipping away at his improvements a little further down the order as he preps for his MotoGP debut on home turf. They’ve tested at Buriram – that was new test rider Aleix Espargaro’s first port of call in 2025 – and that’s exactly what their free testing allowance is for in their concessions.
2025 Thailand MotoGP Test Results—Day One
| 1 | Marc Marquez | Ducati | 1:29.184s |
| 2 | Alex Marquez | Ducati | +0.465s |
| 3 | Franco Morbidelli | Ducati | +0.499s |
| 4 | Marco Bezzecchi | Aprilia | +0.610s |
| 5 | Pedro Acosta | KTM | +0.720s |
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