The pace heats up in last 5 mins of Practice 🔥 | 2025 San Marino GP

Right on board there with Jorge Martín and both of the Aprilia's are improving, although the first sector only complete. Martín, this is the area where, of course, he needs to make the biggest improvement still on board this factory Aprilia. Nothing wrong with his race pace there as he looked like he was a little bit deep there into Quechua. Turn eight and you can see perhaps a few meters opening up between Betsegi and Martín. Martín closes then back in then under braking for Tremonto. And is Betsegi potentially going to tow his teammate into the top ten? Yeah, in his five previous starts this year for Martín, only once on his return in Brno has he featured in a Q2 session. Through the fast rights we go then into the final five minutes of this session. Yellow flags are out in the opening sector. That's not going to have any impact on Betsegi and Martín on their current lap. If that yellow flag is still out, though, as they come over the line very, very shortly, it certainly will have a big impact. That yellow flag is still out as well as Bastien. It's Augusto Fernández who unfortunately has damaged one of those V4 Yamaha's after one of them broke down this morning. Betsegi improves in second place and Martín now up into sixth place. He has found that crucial 1.30. Yeah, Martíno's beza piadina in remedy tonight, doesn't he? That's for sure. Yeah, it's at least a piadina, I don't doubt it. So this is the crash for Augusto Fernández then, tipping it left through two. So, so easy to do that. So many right-handers in the second half of the lap leading on to the main strain. And then the left of two is generally where you see riders struggle. Fernández then will not be improving, it would appear, on 19th place. Can you just pick up a little bit too much curve maybe on the inside there on that new V4? Nevertheless, it has been a pretty dramatic debut for the V4 after it stopped this morning on Augusto Fernández. Clearly, though, it's got some serious potential, hasn't it? A 1.31.6 from Augusto. Yeah, El Diablo needs to find him a spot, at least, to be comfortable. Sitting in 11th. I bet Fabio's going to come out and string together a couple of good laps so he can get two in. He just did a 1.31.2 on his last lap just before he sat up there. And that's a crash for Juan Mir into Tramonto Corner. It looks like he's gone down through the right of nine before he's arrived at 10, because you can see how far he's ended up towards the wall. Mir currently in fifth, but a painful end to his session. He's lost that straight up and down, hasn't he? The way how far he's gone. He's coming our way. Looks like he was a little bit offline there, maybe a little bit wider onto a slightly dirty part of the circuit, but he's gone a long, long way through there. Through the long lap, he's gone. Looks like he's taking a bit of a whack on the right arm. Yeah, nasty one, that for Juan Mir. At the moment, fifth. How damaging that could be to his prospects of being in Q2. He was on a personal best. He just set his best second sector and was only half a tenth away from what Mar Marquez was doing. So Mir was going well prior to that crash. He's placed in the top 10, though, relatively secure at the moment. Those yellow flags have now cleared, but Mir on a 30.8 should be reasonably secure. We've got four riders at the moment on 30.8. Mir, Martín, Morbidelli and Acosta. Zarco and Dijon Antonio on both 31s, as we take a look at the factory of pretty riders. And this Jorge Martín potentially thanking his teammate. It is a little bit of a doff of the cap to Benceki. Thank you for helping me potentially reach Q2. Yeah, I thought that was the strategy that was at play there. That corner that Mir crashed in, such an easy corner to get in too deep because you try and get in, try and get in, and you feel like you're going so slow when you get to the center. OK, I'm going to be a little more aggressive this time. So an easy mistake to make. And late in this session, good to see Mir up and looking to be OK anyway. Yeah, let's hope that Mir is going to be relatively OK. It's a smart move that by Aprilia. It's a no-brainer, really, because what we've seen, Jorge Martín over the last couple of Grands Prix, has had podium bags as we got yellow flags out late on here. Yeah, and it could cost Quattroro, although he's lost time anyway in the second sector. We're into the heart of the fourth sector now with Bastionini. It was the yellows in Turn 15, and it looks like a painful one for Raul Fernández. It's a painful one for Ineos. Both times he's been in full time attack mode. At Turn 2, he got the yellow flag for the Fernández crash when he was flying. And now he's caught the yellow flags late on for Raul Fernández. Turn 15 is a right old get-off here in Mazzano. Second gear, about 130-odd kilometres going through there. So Fabio Quattroro has rolled out of it. You've got 20 seconds, Fabio, to get yourself to the finish line, to start one more lap. You could still potentially rescue a Q2 place out of this. Looks like Morbidelli is going to be second. The yellow flags have cleared. So Morbidelli now going through Turn 14. The bottom gear, right-hander. Morbidelli looking pretty set to go directly through to Q2. It's Francki, but just making sure there is no late dramas. More yellow flags now out in the first sector. This won't impact Morbidelli, which could be a top three lap here. Jack Miller's gone down on the Pramac Yamaha. Morbidelli does indeed go into third place. He's the first rider to take the chequered flag in this session. Francki's best work at 130.673. It's been a costly day for Pramac, hasn't it? That's three crashes now for their two riders. Quattroro was ahead of Miller, incidentally, on the racetrack, and has set his best first sector so far. Costly day all round for Yamaha, hasn't it? With a crash as well on the new V4 for Augusto Fernandez. Look at this from Vinales. This would be something special by Maverick. Well, just look how much time he lost in that third sector. Just hasn't got the upper body strength to muscle that KTM around through those fast rides. Gianantonio might need this final sector because Quattroro is taking aim at him further back. Can Dicic get ahead of Zarco? He does, and that could be crucial. He's now into the 130s, and it looks like a battle of the two Frenchmen with Marini also potentially in the contention. It looks like the three of them are fighting for one Q2 place here. Marini, 14th at the moment. Nothing really going for him as he's halfway through the final sector. He's almost been a permanent fixture all day, hasn't he? Inside the top six, has Marini. He's about to come over the line now. Should be enough, this. Over the line he goes. Yeah, that's more like it. Seven, four. Better late than never as far as the Italian is concerned. He slots in behind Joan Mir. Fabio Quattroro, though, has missed out. Quattroro is in Q1 at best. Fabio will be 12th at the end of that session. Just one spot behind fellow Frenchman Zarco. And I think that's it. Match your lot. Marc Marquez. Yeah, Marini's pumped. Yeah, he knows that was a big, big 130.848. Honda's 6th and 7th. Game changer for your weekend to get through directly into Q2. 6th, 7th and 11th. And I mean, just missing it. Zarco didn't. He'd been nowhere most of the day. I mean, right towards the like back four or five bikes. But obviously, he found something that helped him out with some confidence there late in the session because he was definitely a threat to sneak into the top 10. He really was. We thought Anea Bastiunini was going to be one of those contenders for the top 10. Those late yellow flags really did for the beast. Dearie me, what's going to be going through the mind of Anea right now? 18th fastest. Well, we know he'll just be airing his frustration about all the late drama. He'll feel like there was a top 10 lap in him. But 18th for Anea. Well, he was fastest this morning, was Mawadeli. And he's top three this afternoon once again. Marco Bersseke, who I'm sure is going to be sending the receipt to Jorge Martin, sending in the bill for the tow around this Rossano circuit. Best second, quite rightly. You think cheese only on that Piadina? Or is it going to be meat and cheese? It won't be pineapple, that's for sure. Not in this part of the world. Alex Marquez, we know, is a bit of a... He loves a pineapple pizza. And you just watch all the Italian riders around him when he says that. Turn their nose up in disgust. Martin, then, did get into Q2 with a little bit of help from his friend, Marco Bersseke.