Marco Bezzecchi absolutely dominated Indonesian Grand Prix MotoGP qualifying for Aprilia, as Ducati's problems continued with Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia only ninth and 16th on the grid respectively.
Indonesian GP starting grid
1 Bezzecchi; 2 Aldeguer; 3 Fernandez
4 Rins; 5 Acosta; 6 Marini
7 A Marquez; 8 Quartararo; 9 M Marquez
10 Oliveira; 11 Di Giannantonio; 12 Mir
13 Morbidelli; 14 Miller; 15 Binder
16 Bagnaia; 17 Bastianini; 18 Zarco
19 Chantra; 20 Vinales
Though Marquez made it out of Q1 (second there to VR46 Ducati rider Fabio Di Giannantonio), the champion's Q2 was full of abandoned and cancelled flying laps. He was last in the session before his final lap and that only managed to edge him up from 12th to ninth ahead of Miguel Oliveira, Di Giannantonio and Joan Mir.
Ducati honour was upheld by Gresini's rookie Fermin Aldeguer on his year-old bike, who was Bezzecchi's closest challenger and booked his first front row start in second place but was still four tenths of a second down on the runaway Aprilia's record pace.
Jorge Martin and Ai Ogura's injuries mean there are just two Aprilias in the Mandalika field, but both are on the front row - with Trackhouse's Raul Fernandez equalling his career best MotoGP qualifying in third.
Down goes @rins42 at Turn 15 💥#IndonesianGP 🇮🇩 pic.twitter.com/8hLASlJMOg
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) October 4, 2025
Alex Rins achieved by far his best qualifying result for Yamaha - and his best start since he qualified second for the 2023 Austin race that he famously won on the LCR Honda - in fourth place, following team-mate Fabio Quartararo on that lap.
No chance to save that at all for Fabio Quartararo at Turn 15 💥#IndonesianGP 🇮🇩 pic.twitter.com/py5u85pLZa
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) October 4, 2025
Both Yamahas crashed at the penultimate corner at different ends of Q2, which left Quartararo eighth on his spare bike, having been Bezzecchi's closest rival in the pre-qualifying practice session.
Contrasting fortunes for @gresiniracing with @aldeguer54 in P2 and a crash for @alexmarquez73 🔄#IndonesianGP 🇮🇩 pic.twitter.com/yJ7wimf0WX
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) October 4, 2025
Alex Marquez also crashed, but was still second-best Ducati in seventh behind Pedro Acosta's KTM and Luca Marini's Honda. Both of those two had shots at the front row, losing out due to a final-corner minor error in Acosta's case while Marini came across the yellows for Rins's crash.
Bagnaia never looked remotely close to following Marquez out of Q1 and a week after his Motegi resurgence - and amid continued mystery and discord over the route to that turnaround - he will start 16th at Mandalika.
Maverick Vinales was slowest of all for Tech3 KTM, amid reports he may pull out of the next sequence of races to try to properly recover from the shoulder injury that's now limited him since before the summer break.
