MotoGP HIGHLIGHTS 🤯 2025 Indonesian GP

Lights out and we're racing here in Mandelika. On the way we go to Marco Bezzecchi's game-shot pole position. And another shocking sight. He's going backwards once again. Marquez gets aggressive on the inside of both Quattro Aro and Bezzecchi. Bezzecchi's going to go 6th or 7th as they steam towards Turn 2. But it's Pedro Acosta that leads from Luca Marini in 2nd. Tell you what, it was very touch and go as to whether Pedro Acosta jumped the star. It was very close indeed. He has the lead. We'll have to keep a very close eye on our timing screens to see if that star was legitimate. Well, yeah, we'll keep a very, very close eye. That will come up immediately on our timing screens in the commentary box. Acosta it is, though, that leads. Marini's been superb once again for the line. He was 6th to 2nd at the start of the sprint. Expensive, isn't it? Expensive to Marc Marquez. It's Marc Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi. That's a massive, massive crash early on here. The new world champion's Mandelika curse continues. And Marco Bezzecchi, the massive pre-race favourite from pole position and the spin victory is out early on in this Grand Prix. Dramatic first lap here in Mandelika. A first lap which will end with Pedro Acosta as the lead. That answer will be reviewed after the Grand Prix. We'll await the replays, but it's going to be Acosta from Marini, from Aldeguerre. Marc Marquez has still not been able to get to his feet here. This has been a real cage-rattler for the new world champion. Yeah, Bezzecchi's up behind Marc Marquez. So, so difficult to pass into turn 7 straight into the back of Marc Marquez. And he clips his left foot as well on the way through. Bezzecchi, I'm afraid, can look at no one but himself for that one. That was horrible. Bezzecchi and Marc Marquez out of contention. Acosta is your leader. Still no information coming up on our timing screens about whether the Spaniard did indeed make a jump start. And now Joan Mir has crashed out of contention as well after the contact at turn 10. The factory Honda rider contact with Alex at turn 10. And Mir now becomes our third high-profile victim early on here in Mandelika. Well, we already said this was going to be a race of survival. Three out of it already and three key players out of this Grand Prix as we see Ralf Fernandez coming through on Alex Rins. Everyone in this field, particularly towards the front, are suddenly realizing the obvious favorite is out. The rider who's won so many Grand Prixs this season is out. This is anybody's. So, Joan Mir tipped. He's out of the Grand Prix. Acosta leads from Luca Marini, Fermin Aldeguerre and Ralf Fernandez. The top four in this race have never won a MotoGP Grand Prix. Alex Rins, in fifth place, hasn't won for the better part of two and a half years. Fabio Quattararo, in sixth, hasn't won since 2022. Mark and Bette Secki shaking up from the order at the front of this Grand Prix. All shook up, isn't it? As we now see Acosta, Marini, Aldeguerre and Ralf Fernandez all set fastest laps of this Grand Prix. Further down the order is Miguel Oliveira, one of only three riders on the soft rear tyre, with Rins and Quattararo, two of the Yamaha's, with that soft rear tyre coming in beautifully already for Oliveira. 131.366, as sees Oliveira, fastest rider on circuit. He's down at the moment in 11th place. And even with three riders out, Pekka Banyai is last again. He's now four seconds off the back of the field. Banyai must have made a mistake somewhere to drop so far down the order. Let's have a look at what was going on into Turn 1 then. This is Rins going in hot and dropping away from the back of Ralf Fernandez. Rins has been on the floor there in Q2 this weekend. Back at the front, then it's still Acosta from Marini. This Leigh Quartet with that little bit of a breather now ahead of Alex Rins. Fabio Quattararo on the second of the factory Yamaha still there in 6th place. Brad Binder is 8th as Aldeguerre goes on the inside of Marini. He made that move beautifully. Nice move that by Aldeguerre going through the fast left-hander of Turn 12. Aldeguerre then now up into 2nd place. Starts the pursuit of Acosta. Aldeguerre possibly the favourite at this stage to win this Grand Prix given what we saw from him in the sprint yesterday. Of course, we would never have known where Acosta would have figured because he crashed out of the sprint. No news on our timing screens. We haven't had the no jump-starts message, but we certainly haven't had any news of Acosta jumping it. If he didn't jump it, he absolutely nailed it. Turn 17. This is going to be the completion of lap 5 of 27. Still an awful long way to go in this Grand Prix. It's back-to-back fast laps for Aldeguerre. This time around, he's improved to 131.288. But once again, on that softer rear tyre, getting that hooked up beautifully right now is Oliveira. At 131.261, the Portuguese rider, once again, fastest on track. Ralf Fernandes sends it on the inside of Luca Marine. That's not going to work out. Just in too hot on the brakes into Turn 10. Aldeguerre showing Acosta. He's at the front wheel going through 11. Marc Marquez, when he was on the podium with Aldeguerre in the Austrian Grand Prix, said of all the Ducati riders, it's Aldeguerre that is better than anybody on a GP24 or GP25 or whatever Ducati are calling their designs at each now this year. He's the best at managing the rubber late on in Grands Prix. This collision earlier, Marco Bersseke charging into the back of Marc Marquez's factory Ducati, putting the 93 and world champion immediately out of contention. Oh, Marc was looking at that. There's no serious damage, hopefully, to that left foot. It looks like the main concern is a right shoulder injury. And with Marc out early, yeah, look, he's already sort of feeling that upper right arm. Of course, it was the right humerus bone, wasn't it, causing so much grief. Here is Aldeguerre then in the top left-hand corner of your picture, taking the lead of this Grand Prix for the first time. He's got the job done up at Turn 10. Acosta now, what has he got in terms of retaliation on the factory KTM? 54, then now Elite 37. And Fermin Aldeguerre knows that with his likeliest challenger, Marco Bersseke, now out of this Grand Prix. Is the path clear? Yeah, well, it's far from clear at the moment with Acosta right behind him. But Fermin Aldeguerre now leading this Grand Prix. And the rider that chased him down yesterday is nowhere to be found. Yeah, you have to imagine that that incident will be reviewed after the race, a potential penalty coming their way for Bersseke next time out of Flip Island. This was the move. Then he sets it all up, getting the drive coming through Turn 9. There's nothing that Acosta can do about this. At the moment, Grazini could be adding a new name to the winning roster in the MotoGP World Championship. It's another hot lap. Another scorching hot lap by Aldeguerre. A 1.30.805. Someone's down. It's Bagnaia down. Oh, it's Pekko Bagnaia. Well, Pekko Bagnaia was dead last and nowhere in this Grand Prix. A dismal, dismal weekend, not just for Bagnaia, but for the Factory Ducati team as well. He sort of sarcastically does the sort of gesture towards that Factory Ducati, doesn't he? Into the final corner he goes. That front's going to just tuck from underneath him, isn't it? Right about there. He just sort of fell off the side of that Factory Ducati, didn't he there? Pekko Bagnaia down and well and truly out. Last and lost. Back-to-back Grand Prix podiums for the Factory Honda team. I feel like we've put a time capsule back to sort of 2018-2019 here. It was Joan Mir, of course, who took the honours last time out. Here comes Merini, darting to the inside line there through Turn 12. That is the textbook move through that third gear left. Daniel Acosta immediately tries to fight back. Marc Marquez has gone to the circuit medical centre. We hope it's just some precautionary check-ups, some concerns, wasn't there, about his right shoulder. Let's hope that there's been no aggravation to the right humerus, bro, that he fractured and caused all of his career-long problems at Jerez in 2020. Well, Merini must be thinking, I might have to do what Marc Marquez did to my teammate, Joan Mir, in Metegi in the sprint last weekend, where he just dive-bombed him, blocked past him, and sent him off to the edge of the racetrack. The problem that Merini's got, if he tries something like that, is that Ralf Hernandez, Alex Rins, Alex Marquez, Fabio Quattroro, and others are all queued up right behind him. So he's in a bit of a rock-and-a-hard place here, Merini. He's got to make the move. He's got to make it clinically and precisely. But, of course, if he goes too aggressive, he could lose a place. There's Alain Bastien nearly in the top left-hand corner of your screens, looking thoroughly miffed and cheesed off with life at the moment, isn't he? Because we thought when there was the sprint podium in Brno and the Grand Prix podium in Catalunya, that Anea would turn the corner on that unruly RC16, which he really struggled to adapt to from the factory Ducati at the start of this year. But he said, this weekend, I feel like I'm back to square one. No confidence in the bike. He described his situation on Friday as critical. Here comes Ralf Hernandez. If Merini's not going to go on the attack, then Ralf Hernandez is more than happy to. Yeah, he just parked in the middle of that turn 16. He's got the inside... Oh! Big, big rub there between Ralf Hernandez and Merini. That's allowed the door wide open for Alex Rins to move up into the podium places. Alex Rins' last podium was his win, of course, for LCR Honda back at Austin in 2023. Alex Marquez there now picks up Ralf Hernandez. Merini almost lost the front, didn't he? Going into the braking zone for the first corner. So Merini, in the blink of an eye, has gone from fighting for P2 down to 8th. That's exactly the problem I was describing a lap ago. If you don't get it right, if you don't get Acosta dealt with quickly, then there are so many riders queuing up behind you to pile on the agony. Quattrovaro there with a head shake on board his Yamaha. There are a good eight or nine riders here, all battling for the two remaining spots on the podium. This was the move then by Ralf Hernandez. There's going to be big, big contact there as Merini squeezed him on the inside, as he was perfectly entitled to do. And that allowed Alex Rins to sweep on through. It's given Acosta his biggest breather in that second place for a good number of laps. Now Alex charges towards Alex of the Rins version. Yeah, there's a Cressini 1-2 coming up here if Alex Marquez places cards right, because he's now had to do virtually no work to go through on Ralf Hernandez and Luca Merini. He's now up behind Alex Rins. And then, well, Pedro Acosta, it feels like he's a bit of a sitting duck, but boy, is he doing a good job of playing the ultimate spoiler role in second place. Alex Rins has not scored a single point in the last three Grand Prixs. Yeah, here he is on the podium place. You see, as Marco Bersseke has had to take a trip to the medical center, Alex Rins won 31.096 on that last. That was his best of this Grand Prix so far. This would be some story, there'd be some emotion if Alex Rins was able to take a podium here. Rins there, still in third place. We know what a class rider Alex Rins has been down the years. Some of his Grand Prix victories in the past were in some of the best battles we've ever seen. That epic fight with Marc Marquez at Silverstone a few years ago. Winning for Suzuki at Phillip Island about two or three years ago stands out in the mind as well. He's won some classy battles, hasn't he, Alex Rins? Can he get the better of some of his rivals here and take that elusive podium? Well, Fermin Aldeguerre's got absolutely no idea of the incredible entertainment that's playing out behind him. He's just riding his own race, just joining the dots, just hitting all his apexes, hitting all his braking markers. As you said earlier on, this is a test of the Fermin Aldeguerre concentration. This is trade, trademarks, signs of the Aldeguerre of Moto2 in his pomp. Well, he was signed, a high-profile signing by Ducati before the Moto2 World Championship started last year in 2024. Alex Rins is getting better and better. This isn't it for the factory Yamaha rider? Briefly through on Acosta into 12. We know how good Acosta's been on that left-hander through 13, but Alex Rins there now. Where has this performance come from from Rins? As we mentioned, he hasn't scored a single point in the last three Grands Prix. A few people were saying he was pretty fortunate to hang on to his factory Yamaha seat in 2026, but he is showing once again. He's a top-notch, top-level rider, a class act, isn't he, Alex Rins? And now he's in the P2. Although he's going to be under pressure here because the Yamaha's not in a match for the KTM in a straight line and Pedro Acosta's just going to breeze straight past him. He's up the inside. Can he break as late as Rins, though? Rins really did leave it late on the brakes there, and Acosta has to stay behind. We know he's got a good front end, don't we? And Rins is proving it at the moment. Nothing to choose between their lap times last time round. There is absolutely nothing between them. Alex Marquez with the best view in the house at the moment in 4th place, hoping that something kicks off ahead to open the door for him. I suppose the big question mark hanging over Rins right now is how much, having got through to 2nd place, has he overworked that soft rear tyre? There's only him, Fabio Quattro and Miguel Oliveira out on circuit. They're on that soft rear tyre. You've got to say Alex is doing a phenomenal job. Alex Marquez pings it on the inside of Acosta into Turn 10. Acosta desperately trying to fight back. This is going to be a huge day in terms of the championship for Alex Marquez. Surely this is the final leap towards securing 2nd overall in the standings. Potentially 16 points coming the way of Alex. Maybe an extra 4 if he's able to find a way through on Rins into 2nd place. And he gets the drive coming out of that final corner. Alex Rins, I just wonder if he's starting to suffer. I wonder if he's starting to suffer with that soft rear tyre here. And let's go down to pit lane. Jack Aplion with Davide Tarlozzi for a Mark Marquez update. Yes, Davide, just very quickly, could you just update us on Mark's condition? Yes, there is an evidence of a break on the right shoulder, but we need a tach to investigate deeper and understand if it's necessarily an operation or not. Thanks, Davide. Thanks very much, Jack. And thanks to Davide Tarlozzi for coming to speak to us for another painful, painful experience for Mark Marquez. Talk about the ups and downs as a professional motorcycle racer. Seven days after one of the highlights of his Grand Prix career. Seven days after lifting that 7th MotoGP world title. Mark Marquez potentially a fracture to his right shoulder or the right collarbone. That was his initial concern, wasn't it? After the contact from Marco Bersseke. That's a tough one for Mark to take as Acosta then now goes back on the inside of Rindau. I think Rindau has just completely barbecued that soft rear tyre. It was a bit of a telltale sign, wasn't it? The lack of drive he got coming out of the final corner. The rear just spinning up and Alex Rindau now potentially, after such a fantastic afternoon, is now plummeting backwards through the field. Ralf Fernandes and Brad Binder now both go through. Can Binder get through on Ralf Fernandes? We know that Ralf's not easy to shift through this final corner. So Ralf Fernandes now 4th, Binder 5th. And Rindau now back behind or back with his teammate Quattroaro in 6th and 7th. Rindau started that lap 2nd. He finishes it down in 6th place. He's really suffering at the moment. Binder up to 1st. Binder now sends it on the inside of Ralf Fernandes. All a bit brief, you know, he chops back across the nose of the track house. Prudy Ryder now 9.1 seconds clear at the front. Is Fermin Aldegaard, who's in a different postcode at the moment, isn't he? Alex in now, 2nd. Acosta looks like 3rd. That could be it in terms of the podium battle. Because it looks like now there's a bit of a gap that's emerged back to Binder. Pedro Acosta is just not letting it rest on this. He's definitely going to come on the inside. Of course he is. Acosta's not going to get this 2nd place up. Now, conventional wisdom should suggest that Acosta's going to have the better front tyre underneath him at this stage of the race. The medium front should be giving him the better endurance compared to Alex Marquez's soft front tyre choice. Evidence of a fracture on Mark Marquez's right shoulder. The worst possible news. Only twice previously have two KTMs featured on the same podium. Styria back in 2020, and most recently Binder and Miller at the Spanish Grand Prix in Aretha a couple of years ago. Might just run out of time here late on, Binder. He's a second behind Alex as we come through the halfway point of this. At lap 26 of 27. What a moment this is potentially going to be for Fermin Aldeguer as Marini retaliating late on from the fast fading Ralf Fernandez. Well, Marini's going to be livid at how that battle played out with Ralf Fernandez earlier on in the Grand Prix. He'll be thinking that's cost him a podium finish because he's now siding back through the pack back towards where he was. But, of course, he was the rider up behind Acosta. Last lap underway. What a moment in the career, the very young career of Fermin Aldeguer. 4.3 kilometers away from history. We thought he was going to be the youngest rider ever to win a sprint. He certainly looks like he's going to be the first rookie to win a MotoGP race since Jorge Martín four years ago in 2021. They can barely watch the screens, can they? Inside the Guzzini Racing Garage. Well, no one doubted the talent of Fermin Aldeguer. Of course, he was signed a year out from his MotoGP debut. So many expected him to waltz to the Moto2 title last season. That didn't quite pan out. He has had some rocky moments in his MotoGP rookie season. But this, without question, the highest of highs for Fermin Aldeguer. A nod of the head, a nod of approval from Aldeguer as he comes out of the final corner. It has been, without question, phenomenal. Fermin Aldeguer here in the Grand Prix of Indonesia. What a performance and what a dominant victory by the rookie. He becomes the first rookie to win since Jorge Martín. The outgoing world champion back in Styria in 2021. The emotions pour out inside BK8 Guzzini. A phenomenal ride. Hans Aldeguer, a maiden victory in MotoGP ahead of Pedro Acosta and team ace Alex Marquez. Brad Binder misses out on the podium, as does Luca Marini and Raul Fernandes. Quartararo, Morbidelli, Guijan Antonio and Rins complete the top ten.