10:18
Pedro Acosta has a close moment with Alex Rins in the slipstream but gets into Turn 1 safely.
Alex Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose
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2025 Italian MotoGP: Sprint as it happened
Live updates from Sprint at the 2025 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix
The 2025 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix continues on Saturday 21 June with qualifying and the sprint for the ninth round of the campaign.
Marc Marquez leads the championship coming into Saturday's race action at Mugello, with the factory Ducati rider 32 points clear of the chasing pack following a perfect weekend at Aragon.
Gresini Ducati's Alex Marquez is his nearest challenger in the standings amid a consistent season for the Spaniard, while Pecco Bagnaia is third in the championship - 93 points behind team-mate Marc Marquez.
Pecco Bagnaia has won the last three Italian Grands Prix and comes to Mugello having made a breakthrough with his feeling on the GP25 two weeks ago at Aragon.
Tech3 KTM rider Maverick Vinales was fastest at the end of a tight Friday practice and was confident the Austrian brand's pace was genuine following steps at the Aragon test.
Yamaha's Fabio Quartararo has been cleared to ride on Saturday despite suffering a partial shoulder dislocation in a crash on Friday afternoon.
The Sprint is set to get underway at 2pm BST over 11 laps. Marc Marquez will start on pole position, alongside Bagnaia and Alex Marquez on the front row.
21 Jun 2025
10:15
Green flag - Q2
The pole shootout session is GO!
10:11
Q2 group
- Vinales
- Quartararo
- Morbidelli
- Fernandez
- Acosta
- Rins
- Di Giannantonio
- Aldeguer
- Bagnaia
- Bezzecchi
- A.Marquez
- M.Marquez
10:10
Binder and Bastianini will have some soul searching to do over the rest of the morning as neither have been able to capitalise on the pace the bike has at Mugello.
10:09
Zarco wasn't far away either. He was 0.048s away from Fernandez's time.
But that is the peril of falling into Q1.
10:08
Bitter disappointment for Jack Miller.
He was just 0,014s outside of a Q2 spot.
10:06
Aldeguer leads Fernandez into Q2 with a 1m44.894s.
Jack Miller will start 13th ahead of Zarco, Binder, Bastianini, Oliveira, Mir, Nakagami, Savadori, Ogura and Chantra.
10:05
Chequered flag
Chequered flag is out and Fernandez moves into second. That may just be enough!
10:04
Miller has a good final sector and gets into second, but Aldeguer still has a comfy 0.257s advantage.
10:02
Aldeguer shoots to the top of the order with the first 1m44s of the session - a 1m44.894s.
Zarco was behind him but couldn't breach the top two - losing too much time on acceleration on that Honda.
10:01
Trackhouse have resolved the issue and Fernandez is on his way out, but that's added some pressure he didn't need.
10:00
There's a problem for Fernandez! The front tyre warmer has gotten stuck.
10:00
Pitlane empties for the final five minutes.
09:58
It's a tight battle for the final Q2 spot currently. Zarco is just 0.006s outside of Aldeguer's time.
Fernandez has been impressive so far.
09:56
Fernanez improves to a 1m45.158s, while Aldeguer has gone into second - 0.256s adrift.
Zarco improves to third, pushing Bastianini down to fourth.
Nine minutes to go.
09:54
Opening salvo is in and it's Fernandez from Bastianini at the top of the timesheets.
1m45.214s is the benchmark.
09:50
Green flag - Q1
Pitlan is open for Q1.
09:49
It's absolutely scorching again this morning at Mugello. Air temp is already up at 30 degrees C, with track temp at 44 degrees C.
09:45
Five minutes till Q1.
09:44
Another strong showing from Fabio Quartararo in third in that session having suffered a partially dislocated shoulder yesterday.
09:43
Final Practice Results
09:41
FP2 has just wrapped up and it's Maverick Vinales once again leading the way fom Marc Marquez.
09:38
In case you're new to MotoGP, the fastest two riders at the end of Q1 will advance into the pole shootout Q2 session.
Each session is 15 minutes long.
09:36
Q1 group
- Oliveira
- Bastianini
- Miller
- Fernandez
- Aldeguer
- Mir
- Zarco
- Binder
- Ogura
- Nakagami
- Savadori
- Chantra
09:34
Coming into Saturday's running, Tech3 KTM rider Maverick Vinales led the way on Friday after practice.
But race pace looks to have Marc and Alex Marquez slighlty ahead of the rest.
