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MotoGP testing: Yamaha fastest, Martin hurt in crash
Fabio Quartararo headed the opening MotoGP test day at Sepang from Marc Marquez, while Jorge Martin headed to hospital after a big crash
The Yamaha MotoGP team started the 2025 season off on the right foot as Fabio Quartararo headed the opening day of collective pre-season testing at Sepang.
But the biggest takeaway from the day was a savage accident for world champion Jorge Martin that ended his running early and may have further repercussions.
Though his and other Yamaha riders' pace was surely flattered by them riding in the shakedown before the test, Quartararo's laptimes still caught the eye.
He led the timesheets from very early on by a considerable margin, then once surpassed by Alex Marquez's 2024-spec Ducati swiftly reclaimed the top spot by around two tenths of a second.
LEADING POSITIONS
1 Quartararo (Yamaha)
2 M Marquez (Ducati)
3 A Marquez (Gresini Ducati)
4 Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati)
5 Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati)
Full times and order at bottom of page
Quartararo's 1m57.555s is well short of the track record, but is four tenths better than what Martin set to top the corresponding day of pre-season action from last year.
New Ducati factory rider Marc Marquez came close to leapfrogging Quartararo in the very final minutes, but came up 0.051s short in his first ride on the full-liveried red Ducati.
Though they were all behind the elder Marquez in the end, predictably the well-refined 2024-spec Ducatis shone as a whole.
The younger Marquez was followed close on the timing screens by his new Gresini team-mate Fermin Aldeguer - also benefitting from the shakedown mileage due to his rookie status - and VR46 Ducati rider Franco Morbidelli, completing the top five.
Honda, unlike Yamaha, opted not to use its race riders - save for rookie Somkiat Chantra - in the pre-test shakedown to ensure it doesn't use up too much of its tyre allowance for the season - but had a respectable day in terms of headline times anyway, headed by Joan Mir in sixth and Johann Zarco in ninth.
KTM, which as a manufacturer remains under self-administration, looks to have brought a considerable amount of developments to Sepang and was headed up on the day by star rider Pedro Acosta (11th), with new recruit Maverick Vinales just a tenth and a half back and Brad Binder between them.
