Marco Bezzecchi storms to pole, Marc Marquez solely ninth

Aprilia MotoGP star Marco Bezzecchi blitzed the all-time monitor file to take pole place for the Indonesian Grand Prix, whereas Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia struggled to ninth and sixteenth respectively.

Having already loved a four-tenth margin over the remainder of the sector on Friday, Bezzecchi carried that momentum into qualifying, setting a blistering lap time of 1m28.832s to proceed his robust run within the second half of the season.

The Italian was fast from the off in Q2, setting a benchmark of 1m29.396s on his first run. This put him greater than a tenth away from KTM’s Pedro Acosta on the midway level of the classes, whereas Honda additionally confirmed robust type early on with Luca Marini provisionally grabbing a spot on the entrance row in third.

After coming by means of Q1, Marc Marquez languished in tenth on the manufacturing unit Ducati with a finest effort of 1m30.460s, though there was clearly room for enchancment as he had lapped inside the 1m29s bracket within the first a part of qualifying.

Because the second run started, Bezzecchi moved the goalposts additional, changing into the primary rider in historical past to lap inside the 1m28s bracket on the Mandalika Circuit and smashing present teammate Jorge Martin’s all-time circuit file by over two tenths of a second.

No rider might come anyplace close to Bezzecchi within the subsequent jiffy, and with a second crash for Fabio Quartararo bringing out the yellow flags in the direction of the loss of life of the session, the Aprilia rider sealed his third pole of the season by slightly below 4 tenths of a second.

As was the case on Friday, Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer ended up because the closest rival to Bezzecchi, ending a powerful second on the GP24 after bettering to a 1m29.230s.

Trackhouse rider Raul Fernandez made it two Aprilia bikes on the entrance row, as he took third place with a time that was simply half a tenth shy of Aldeguer’s flyer.

Alex Rins loved his finest qualifying results of the 2025 season as he put his manufacturing unit Yamaha fourth on the grid forward of Acosta and the highest Honda of Luca Marini.

A crash for Alex Marquez at Flip 12 with three minutes remaining left the Gresini star in seventh place, with Quartararo ending up eighth after damaging each his bikes in an incident-packed finish to qualifying.

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Newly-crowned Marc Marquez champion managed to enhance on his time within the last a part of the session, getting right down to a 1m29.773s, nevertheless it was solely ok for a spot on the surface of the third row.

In tenth place got here the Pramac Yamaha of Miguel Oliveira, with Q1 pacesetter Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46) and Joan Mir (Honda) becoming a member of him on the fourth row in eleventh and twelfth respectively.

Di Giannatonio’s team-mate Franco Morbidelli narrowly missed out on a Q2 berth by simply 0.048s and can begin thirteenth, forward of Pramac Yamaha’s Jack Miller and KTM’s Brad Binder.11:45:08

Francesco Bagnaia’s tough run continued in Indonesia, as he was eradicated in Q1 for the third time in 5 weekends, leaving him sixteenth on the grid.

His former teammate Enea Bastianini completed seventeenth on the Tech3 KTM after crashing late on at Flip 1 – an incident that led to yellow flags being deployed in sector 1 simply as most riders had been on their last flying laps.

LCR duo Johann Zarco and Somkiat Chantra and Bastianini’s team-mate Maverick Vinales accomplished the depleted 20-bike grid.