Marco Bezzecchi led an Aprilia 1-2 in the final MotoGP 2026 pre-season test at Buriram in the lead-up to next weekend’s season-opening Thai Grand Prix at the same venue.
Bezzecchi set the fastest Buriram MotoGP lap yet - a 1m28.668s - at the end of the day, eclipsing Pecco Bagnaia's pole record by three hundredths of a second.
Trackhouse Aprilia rider Ai Ogura, a Buriram standout last year, was a tenth back in second. And the long runs backed up the Aprilia RS-GP's strong performance, with Bezzecchi delivering a top-tier grand prix simulation and Ogura very fast over a sprint distance.
Reigning champion Marc Marquez had headed the field in the earlier qualifying simulations in the morning, narrowly ahead of resurgent Ducati team-mate Bagnaia.
But Marquez suffered a third crash of the test during his race simulation in the afternoon and called it a day, unhurt but fatigued as he continues his recovery from his shoulder injury last year - and also having battled a stomach sickness through the test.
Yamaha's new V4 bike ended the test a second off, with Jack Miller (Pramac) its fastest rider in 16th.
Sunday times
1 Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) 1m28.668s
2 Ai Ogura (Aprilia) +0.097s
3 Marc Marquez (Ducati) +0.168s
4 Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati) +0.215s
5 Alex Marquez (Ducati) +0.293s
6 Pedro Acosta (KTM) +0.353s
7 Franco Morbidelli (Ducati) +0.403s
8 Jorge Martín (Aprilia) +0.499s
9 Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati) +0.505s
10 Joan Mir (Honda) +0.628s
11 Raul Fernandez (Aprilia) +0.634s
12 Brad Binder (KTM) +0.724s
13 Luca Marini (Honda) +0.783s
14 Maverick Vinales (KTM) +0.901s
15 Johann Zarco (Honda) +0.940s
16 Jack Miller (Yamaha) +1.004s
17 Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) +1.033s
18 Enea Bastianini (KTM) +1.060s
19 Diogo Moreira (Honda) +1.252s
20 Alex Rins (Yamaha) +1.454s
21 Toprak Razgatlioglu (Yamaha) +2.104s
22 Michele Pirro (Ducati) +3.109s
