Overview
- Friday practice at MotorLand Aragon began with Marc Márquez fastest in the opening session but ended with Marco Bezzecchi setting a new all‑time lap of 1:45.455 to top the timed practice.
- Bezzecchi’s late effort displaced Márquez and Alex Márquez and created the closest top three on a Friday with only 0.038 seconds separating them.
- The practice order determined the ten riders who go straight into Q2: Marco Bezzecchi, Alex Márquez, Marc Márquez, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Fermín Aldeguer, Raúl Fernández, Jorge Martín, Pedro Acosta, Franco Morbidelli, and Johann Zarco.
- Pecco Bagnaia could only manage 13th in the timed session and must race through Q1 on Saturday, while Ai Ogura misses the weekend with a hand injury and is replaced by Lorenzo Savadori and Johann Zarco and Fermín Aldeguer returned from injury to make Q2.
- Márquez said he will change his weekend approach to conserve energy because of ongoing right‑arm issues and the practice shakeup increases qualifying pressure for title contenders and teams recalibrating Ducati‑vs‑Aprilia setups.