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2025 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2025 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix (officially known as the Gran Premio YPF Energía de Argentina) was the second round of the 2025 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. All races were held at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in Termas de Río Hondo on 16 March 2025.

Background

Factory Ducati rider Marc Márquez came into the round as the Riders' Championship leader on 37 points, 8 points ahead of his brother Álex Márquez in second and 14 points ahead of Francesco Bagnaia in third.

Ducati lead the Constructors' Championship by 20 points ahead of Aprilia.

Ducati Lenovo Team lead the Teams' Championship by 28 points ahead of Gresini Racing.

Reigning World Champion and factory Aprilia rider Jorge Martín will miss this round due to a wrist injury, having also missed the preceding round in Thailand.

Practice session

MotoGP

Combined Practice 1-2

Practice times (written in bold) are the fastest times in the session.

Practice

The top 10 riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.

Moto2

Combined Practice 1-2

Practice

The top 14 riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.

Moto3

Combined Practice 1-2

Practice

The top 14 riders (written in bold) qualified for Q2.

Qualifying

MotoGP

Moto2

Moto3

MotoGP Sprint

The MotoGP Sprint was held on 15 March.

Warm Up

Warm Up MotoGP

Race

MotoGP Report

At the start, Marc Márquez kept his lead despite a good getaway from Álex Márquez. Francesco Bagnaia, who had taken third at the start, tried to pass the younger Márquez at turn 5, but ran wide and was re-passed by the Gresini rider. Further back, Aprillia's Marco Bezzecchi outbraked himself going into turn 1, clipping Fabio Quartararo's Yamaha and retiring from the race. The only other crash came on lap 2, when Raúl Fernández pushed Enea Bastianini off the track; this earned Fernández a long lap penalty, Bastianini continued with a damaged bike.

Further ahead, Álex Márquez took the lead away from Marc on lap 4 as the latter ran wide through turn 1. The Ducati rider stayed behind for the majority of the race, despite attempting to pass the #73 on lap 18, before slipstreaming past his brother on lap 21. The elder Márquez eventually won by 1.3 seconds from Álex, as Franco Morbidelli, who had passed Bagnaia for third early on through the use of a soft rear tyre, held on to his first podium placing since the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix. Marc Márquez, who pulled off his second successive sprint and GP win double, later claimed that his brother was now his "main opponent" for the title.

Following the race, eighth-placed Ai Ogura was disqualified for running a non-homologated ECU software.

MotoGP

Notes

  • - Ai Ogura originally finished 8th, but was later disqualified as his bike was using a version of software not homologated by the Championship.
  • - Lorenzo Savadori withdrew from the Grand Prix due to pain in his left shoulder.
  • - Miguel Oliveira withdrew from the Grand Prix due to concerns regarding the ligaments of his left shoulder after a crash in the Sprint. The riders behind him on the grid each moved up one position.

Moto2 Report

Jake Dixon took the holeshot at the start and passed polesitter Manuel González, whilst Adrián Huertas became the only lap 1 casualty after sliding off at turn 2. Dixon's VDS teammate, Filip Salač, progressed up to third in the opening laps. At the end of the back straight on lap 2, Salač passed González for second, though the Spaniard retook the place less than two laps later. Whilst Arón Canet and Marcos Ramírez fought for fourth and Diogo Moreira pitted with a mechanical problem, Dixon was able to eek out an advantage until the race's midpoint.

On lap 11, Salač and Ramírez tangled at turn 5 during an overtaking attempt by the Boscoscuro rider, who exited the race; this collision allowed the battling duo of Canet and Celestino Vietti to pass Ramírez. Canet made an error two laps later that resulted in Vietti taking third place. Despite a later mistake by the Italian, which briefly allowed Canet to get past, he eventually took third with a block pass, as Dixon scored a dominant first win of the season ahead of González. Canet and Ramírez completed the top five.

González retained the championship lead, sitting 11 points ahead of race winner Dixon and a further point clear of Canet.

Moto2

Moto3

Championship standings after the race

Below are the standings for the top five riders, constructors, and teams after the round.

MotoGP

Riders' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings

Moto2

Riders' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings

Moto3

Riders' Championship standings
Constructors' Championship standings
Teams' Championship standings

Notes

References

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