11:08
Have to feel like Bulega deserved more than 18th there, but that's the margins in these MotoGP qualifyings, especially Q1.
Marco Bezzecchi, 2025 MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2025 Portuguese MotoGP: Sprint race AS IT HAPPENED
Live coverage of Sprint at the 2025 Portuguese MotoGP, the penultimate round of the season.
The Sprint race at the 2025 Portuguese MotoGP is due to start at 15:00 local time.
Marco Bezzecchi starts on pole position after an impressive Q2 session that saw him lap three times in the 1:37s in his second run.
Alex Marquez entered qualifying as perhaps the favourite to take pole after his impressive Friday form, but he'll start from fifth after a crash at turn three late on in Q2.
Pedro Acosta qualified on the front row for the first time this season and Portimao is the circuit that saw him take his first premier class podium in 2024.
Fabio Quartararo completes the front row on the Yamaha, although over race distance he is likely to struggle more.
The Sprint will mark the first MotoGP race for Nicolo Bulega, who is replacing Marc Marquez this weekend. The 2025 WorldSBK runner-up will start 18th.
Raul Fernandez will not start the Sprint after withdrawing from the weekend following FP2.
08 Nov 2025
11:07
Quartararo tops Q1
Q1 is over in Portimao and it's Quartararo and Miller who move through to Q2.
Out are:
- Marini
- Binder
- Morbidelli
- Bastianini
- Rins
- Bulega
- Oliveira
- Savadori
- Chantra
11:06
Another 39.0 on his final lap for Marini but that's not enough to beat Miller.
11:05
Big improvement on his second lap from Marini, 1:39.003, but Quartararo beats that and into the 1:38s; Miller behind goes second.
11:04
Bulega was on a provisional pole lap after two sectors but ran off at turn 11. He should be able to continue, but that's a lap gone.
11:03
Improvement from Marini on the first lap of his second run, goes top with two minutes to go.
11:01
Riders heading out now for their second runs.
10:58
First runs over in Q1 and it's Quartararo from Bastianini. Bulega third, only 0.062s behind Bastianini.
Then Rins is fourth, but 0.6s off the top, ahead then of Morbidelli and Miller.
10:57
Trackhouse Aprilia has confirmed, via the MotoGP world feed broadcast, that Raul Fernandez will not contest the remainder of this weekend after his crash in Practice yesterday.
10:56
Quartararo into the 39s, 1:39.588 puts him now 0.150s clear of Bastianini who improved as well on his second lap.
Bulega still third, only 0.2s behind Quartararo.
10:54
Quartararo sets the opening benchmark at a 1:40.031. Yamaha 1-2 at the moment with Miller second on a 40.340.
Bulega strong at the moment in third, then it's Bastianini, Marini, and Binder.
10:51
Q1 start
Pit lane is open in Portimao and we are underway for Q1.
10:46
Q1 riders
The riders set to contest Q1 in Portimao are:
- Luca Marini
- Franco Morbidelli
- Fabio Quartararo
- Brad Binder
- Raul Fernandez
- Jack Miller
- Nicolo Bulega
- Alex Rins
- Enea Bastianini
- Somkiat Chantra
- Lorenzo Savadori
- Miguel Oliveira
10:45
Portimao MotoGP: Final Practice Results
2025 Portuguese MotoGP, Portimao - Saturday Practice Results
Fermin Aldeguer, 2025 Portimao MotoGP
10:42
Aldeguer fastest in FP2
FP2 is over in Portimao. Times really scrolled at the end and dropped into the 1:41s.
Aldeguer ends fastest from Marquez, Mir, Bezzecchi, Bagnaia, and Acosta in the top-six.
Zarco, Raul Fernandez, Espargaro, and Miller complete the top-10.
Q1 coming up in just under 10 minutes.
10:34
FP2 just entering its final seven minutes now. It's been a wet start this morning, but the track is now drying out.
Jack Miller has been the first rider out on slick tyres, but now everyone apart from Raul Fernandez has been out on dries.
Pedro Acosta currently fastest from Joan Mir by around a second. Acosta was one of the first riders after Miller to go out on slicks.
10:31
Welcome to live coverage of today's MotoGP qualifying session from Portimao. Q1 will be coming up in just under 20 minutes at 10:50 local time.
