Practice report

MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix: Fernandez on top as Aprilia dominates

All the title contenders made Q2 at Mandalika, but Fernandez looks to have found his best form

Aprilia lived up to expectations at Mandalika on Friday, with Raul Fernandez breaking the lap record to lead a 1-2-3 for the Italian marque in Practice.

Only the factory riders, Marco Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin, were able to get within half a second of the Trackhouse rider, who was consistently fast throughout the day on the island of Lombok.

Pedro Acosta (KTM) and Marc Marquez (Ducati) booked their tickets into Qualifying 2 with fourth and fifth places respectively, ensuring the top four in the championship will be in the Q2 mix. But both have a considerable lap time deficit to ponder.

Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) was sixth-fastest, with team-mate Franco Morbidelli joining him in Q2 with ninth spot.

Fabio Quartararo wowed onlookers by delivering the seventh-fastest time despite a violent tumble through the gravel midway through the session. He limped away from the fall and spent a few minutes nursing his left wrist in the factory Yamaha garage before emerging to improve his time and book his passage to Q2.

Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) was lucky to remain in the top 10 despite crashing with a couple of minutes remaining. The resulting yellow flags may have helped his cause, as did those produced by late falls for Alex Rins (Yamaha) and Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM).

Francesco Bagnaia dodged the yellows on the second factory Ducati to sneak into tenth spot at the very end of the session.

2025 Indonesian Grand Prix winner Fermin Aldeguer endured a nightmare day that included a crash in the morning, another crash early in the Practice session and then an apparent technical issue just when it was time to push for laps. Unsurprisingly, the Gresini rider was unable to trouble the top 10 and may struggle to repeat his 2025 exploits from there.

The only Aprilia not flying on Friday was the Trackhouse entry of Ai Ogura, who fell in the morning and was unable to find both speed and a clear track at the same moment. He'll be joined in Q1 by Bastianini, who racked up two falls in the afternoon session and will have to work hard to deliver another weekend like he did in Japan last time out.

MotoGP Indonesian GP Practice Results

All Stats

Cla	Rider	#	Bike	Laps	Time	Interval	km/h
1	R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team	25	Aprilia	22	1'28.725		174.877
2	M. Bezzecchi Aprilia Racing Team	72	Aprilia	28	+0.219 1'28.944	0.219	174.446
3	J. Martin Aprilia Racing Team	89	Aprilia	27	+0.481 1'29.206	0.262	173.934
4	P. Acosta Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	37	KTM	26	+0.669 1'29.394	0.188	173.568
5	M. Marquez Ducati Team	93	Ducati	25	+0.701 1'29.426	0.032	173.506
6	F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46	49	Ducati	24	+0.705 1'29.430	0.004	173.498
7	F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing	20	Yamaha	21	+0.833 1'29.558	0.128	173.250
8	A. Marquez Gresini Racing	73	Ducati	21	+0.847 1'29.572	0.014	173.223
9	F. Morbidelli Team VR46	21	Ducati	23	+0.968 1'29.693	0.121	172.990
10	F. Bagnaia Ducati Team	63	Ducati	25	+1.061 1'29.786	0.093	172.810
11	A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing	42	Yamaha	25	+1.151 1'29.876	0.090	172.637
12	J. Miller Pramac Racing	43	Yamaha	25	+1.158 1'29.883	0.007	172.624
13	A. Ogura Trackhouse Racing Team	79	Aprilia	25	+1.229 1'29.954	0.071	172.488
14	L. Marini Honda HRC	10	Honda	25	+1.312 1'30.037	0.083	172.329
15	F. Aldeguer Gresini Racing	54	Ducati	19	+1.426 1'30.151	0.114	172.111
16	T. Razgatlioglu Pramac Racing	7	Yamaha	22	+1.427 1'30.152	0.001	172.109
17	B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	33	KTM	25	+1.522 1'30.247	0.095	171.928
18	J. Zarco Team LCR	5	Honda	23	+1.589 1'30.314	0.067	171.800
19	D. Moreira Team LCR	11	Honda	19	+1.676 1'30.401	0.087	171.635
20	M. Viñales Tech 3	12	KTM	26	+1.941 1'30.666	0.265	171.133
21	E. Bastianini Tech 3	23	KTM	20	+1.943 1'30.668	0.002	171.129
22	A. Espargaro Honda HRC	41	Honda	18	+2.969 1'31.694	1.026	169.214
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