Current MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez tops the first day at thge Argentina Grand Prix, leading Fabio di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez.
Having qualified on pole and done the double at the season-opening Thai GP, Marc Marquez picked up where he left off on his factory Ducati in his first visit to Argentina since 2019.
Marquez took top spot early on, being only briefly pushed down to P3 by Marco Bezzecchi and Johann Zarco before comfortably beating the rest of the field with eight minutes to go.
Bezzecchi leading the charge for Aprilia yet again, finished the day fourth after ruining a promising fresh-rubber lap when he ran wide in turn 3. Salvaging his best session finish in 2025, Brad Binder took P5 for KTM ahead of Practice surprise Alex Rins.
Yamaha Friday frontrunner was lucky enough to catch the rear of Marc Marquez on his fast lap attempt and finished the day as the fastest rider on a Japanese bike right in front of Johann Zarco and teammate Fabio Quartararo.
The latter encountered an odd scenario in the first part of the session when a technical issue and somewhat missing marshals, saw him push his bike back to pitlane all alone.
Frustration on display! 💢 Fabio Quartararo pushes his bike after an early issue ⚠️#ArgentinaGP 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/cTrS9MjYdv
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Quartararo re-joined the session later on and managed to station himself right behind Pecco Bagnaia for the start of his final run when the Ducati rider crashed.
Being out of the session after his crash, Bagnaia was forced to watch the last two minutes of Practice from the pitlane but ultimately hung onto the direct Q2 spot by a thread.
