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# Misano MotoGP Friday Q2 battle devolves into crashfest
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/motogp/misano-motogp-friday-q2-battle-devolves-into-crashfest/
- Published: 2025-09-12T14:12:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-13T05:16:11.000Z
- Description: Marc Marquez headed up the second MotoGP Friday practice session at Misano, as a cavalcade of late-session yellow flags impacted the battle for early Q2 spots
- Author: Valentin Khorounzhiy
- Tags: MotoGP, #marc-marquez, #ducati

Marc Marquez headed up the second MotoGP Friday practice session at Misano, as a cavalcade of late-session yellow flags impacted the battle for early Q2 spots.

Marquez had already headed up the field before the beginning of the customary 'qualifying zero' runs, and appeared to make a big step in the third sector - dominated by fast right-handers that include the famous Curvone - to fire in a table-topping 1m30.480s.

Marco Bezzecchi was second on the Aprilia, and did team-mate Jorge Martin a favour by towing him along to eighth place, Martin having otherwise looked like a long shot for the all-important top 10 - a place in which grants Q2 participation on Saturday.

Pecco Bagnaia looked much more potent after his bleak outings in the Hungarian and Catalan Grands Prix, placing fourth - 0.230s off the pace - behind VR46's Franco Morbidelli and ahead of Gresini Ducati's Alex Marquez.

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**Advanced to Q2:** M Marquez, Bezzecchi, Morbidelli, Bagnaia, A Marquez, Mir, Marini, Martin, Acosta, Di Giannantonio

**Will take part in Q1:** Zarco, Quartararo, Binder, Vinales, R Fernandez, Miller, Bastianini, Aldeguer, Fernandez, Rins, Ogura, Oliveira, Chantra

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While the top five were relatively comfortable, it was a messy end of the session for many of their peers as they scrambled to get into the top 10 while navigating near-constant yellow flags.

The first to trigger one was Augusto Fernandez on the new V4 Yamaha prototype, Fernandez having a very mild crash at Turn 2 that didn't appear to do much damage to the bike.

He ended up six tenths back from the lead inline-four Yamaha of Fabio Quartararo, in what was another very encouraging outing for the new V4 engine.

> A painful one for [@JoanMirOfficial](https://twitter.com/JoanMirOfficial?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) at Turn 9   
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> Is P4 enough to keep his Q2 spot with a little over 2 minutes to go? 🤔[#SanMarinoGP](https://twitter.com/hashtag/SanMarinoGP?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) 🇸🇲 [pic.twitter.com/M0SGQakZsl](https://t.co/M0SGQakZsl?ref=the-race.com)
> 
> — MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) [September 12, 2025](https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1966502598996877649?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com)

Fernandez's crash was followed by Joan Mir coming off at Turn 9, though Mir had already done enough to book a top-10 spot. Then, in quick succession, came crashes for Raul Fernandez and Jack Miller - as well as Brad Binder's KTM losing its chain.

Mir's Honda team-mate Luca Marini had been one of the faster riders out on track through the day, but looked like he was going to be caught out by the yellow flags - before pulling out the seventh-fastest time at the last moment to secure a Q2 spot at Honda stablemate Johann Zarco's expense.

Also advancing to Q2 directly are Pedro Acosta (as the sole KTM rider in the top 10) and Fabio Di Giannantonio.

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