MotoGP: Groups Prepared For Sepang

Extra from a press launch issued by Aprilia Racing: 

Aprilia Racing heads to Sepang for the ultimate GP of the extra-European tour.

The additional-European tour will wrap up with the Malaysian spherical on the Petronas Sepang Worldwide Circuit forward of the return to Europe for the final two races of the 2025 season, with Marco Bezzecchi and Lorenzo Savadori able to deal with the 20th GP of the 12 months.

Bezzecchi will probably be extremely motivated as he arrives in Sepang and his aim will probably be to complete out the extra-European tour with one other important end result. The Italian rider is recent from a unprecedented weekend on Phillip Island, the place he took victory within the dash race and third place within the lengthy race. These are outcomes which catapulted him into third place within the general rider standings with 282 factors.

Finishing the line-up will probably be Lorenzo Savadori, subbing for Jorge Martín who will miss the Sepang race in addition to he recovers from the correct collarbone harm he suffered in Motegi. The Italian rider will make the most of the weekend to proceed his work growing the RS-GP25 in a race setting.

The Petronas Sepang Worldwide Circuit, positioned about 50 km from Kuala Lumpur, is without doubt one of the historic FIM World Grand Prix Motorbike Racing rounds, on the calendar since 1999. At 5,540 metres lengthy, it’s the second longest monitor of the championship and has 15 turns – 10 right-handers and 5 left-handers. It’s identified for its demanding braking sections, notably the primary and the final, characterised by abrupt deceleration with a distinction of greater than 200 km/h between the preliminary and ultimate pace.

Marco Bezzecchi: “I’m extraordinarily blissful to be returning to Sepang. It’s a monitor the place I’ve already ridden with my bike throughout the pre-season exams, so now we have some references and I’m curious to see the way it will go after all of the work we’ve achieved this 12 months. We did an impressive job on Phillip Island, and the aim is to proceed alongside the identical strains in Malaysia. I can’t wait to get out on the monitor.”

Lorenzo Savadori: “Malaysia is slightly a distinct monitor from Phillip Island, with circumstances which are undoubtedly hotter and extra demanding. We’ll proceed engaged on growing the RS-GP25, following up with the experiments we started in Australia with the aim of enhancing the bike much more. I can’t wait to get this weekend began and, as all the time, I’ll be giving it my all.” 

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Extra from a press launch issued by Honda HRC:

Critical in Sepang – three to go in 2025 for Honda HRC Castrol.

The circle of 2025 is sort of closed as Honda HRC Castrol return to the place the 12 months began: the Sepang Worldwide Circuit. Luca Marini and Joan Mir ready and able to display a 12 months of unimaginable positive aspects from the Honda RC213V.

On February 05, 2025, the season formally started with the primary check of the 12 months on the Sepang Worldwide Circuit, now 258 days later the exact same venue will host the Malaysian Grand Prix. Already gathering virtually six occasions the factors whole from 2024 as a group, Honda HRC Castrol’s resurgence has been a welcome reward for all concerned within the mission.

Luca Marini’s regular hand, solely struggling one DNF as a result of a technical difficulty, has not solely benefited growth of the Honda but additionally sees the #10 thirteenth within the championship standings and solely eight factors behind main Honda Johann Zarco. The highest three nonetheless stays the final word aim of Marini and his current run of high 5 challenges actually confirms it as a practical goal. Consistency and adaptableness will probably be key throughout the Malaysian GP, a weekend all the time characterised by excessive temperature, heavy rain and changeable circumstances.

All through 2025, Joan Mir has proven unimaginable uncooked pace with various exhausting charging rides by means of the pack. When qualifying additional ahead, the #36 has been capable of battle for, and take, the rostrum and repeating this stays the goal within the closing trio of races. Arriving to Sepang in 2025, Mir can be seeking to break a run of DNFs on the monitor.

Temperatures creeping into the 30s are predicted for a lot of the weekend with the 20-lap Grand Prix of Malaysia scheduled to start out at 15:00 Native Time on Sunday, October 26.

Luca Marini: “Prepared for one more race in what I’m positive will probably be an attention-grabbing weekend. Sepang is a really specific monitor and having examined there, you all the time get an opportunity to check what you’ve labored on by means of the 12 months. It’s a circuit with a wide selection of braking, corners and straights and I believe it will go well with us just a little greater than in Phillip Island. Three races to attain our targets and we are going to preserve working till the very finish, we’re shut.”

Joan Mir: “This weekend we have to begin nicely and be inside the highest ten from Friday, like this we will have some extra margin throughout the remainder of the weekend. It’s clear that the bike has a whole lot of potential and I do know that we may be there preventing with Luca and the opposite riders on the entrance. We’ve seen the final couple of races that these abroad ones are fairly unpredictable, however I believe our bundle has improved quite a bit to be fairly constant.”

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Extra from a press launch issued by Monster Vitality Yamaha:

Augusto Fernández Returns to Motion for Malaysian GP Wild-Card Entry with the Yamaha Racing MotoGP Check Crew.

This weekend Augusto Fernández will spearhead the Yamaha Racing MotoGP Check Crew as a wild-card rider at Spherical 20 of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship, held on the Sepang Worldwide Circuit. His important goal for this weekend is to proceed gathering knowledge on the V4-powered prototype in a premier-class race-weekend setting.

Enea Bastianini: “We’re arriving in Malaysia, a monitor the place now we have reference from the pre-season with the KTM, which is already a constructive. Nevertheless, many issues have modified since February, the bike is kind of totally different, and the way in which I’ve tailored to the KTM and the way I experience it, is totally different too. We’re coming from a constructive race in Australia, so I believe that we may be aggressive this week in Malaysia, and get nearer to our rivals.”

Pol Espargaro: “Sepang is a monitor the place I’ve spent a whole lot of time, achieved many laps, so I do know the circuit very nicely. Nevertheless, the temperatures are so excessive with a whole lot of humidity, which makes it very troublesome bodily. Anyway, after our good weekend in Australia, I’m wanting ahead to a brand new full race weekend with the group, to strive serving to everybody and collect necessary data for the manufacturing facility heading to the off season. Our bundle ought to work nicely in Malaysia, so let’s see if we may be aggressive, and battle in opposition to Aprilia, since they’ve proven glorious kind these days.”

• All Time Document: 2024 – F. Bagnaia (ITA) – 1’56.337 – 171.5  km/h
• Greatest Race Lap: 2023 – A. Marquez  (SPA) – 1’58.979 – 167.7  km/h
• Greatest Pole: : 2024 – F. Bagnaia (ITA) – 1’56.337 – 171.5  km/h
• High Pace: 2015 – A. Iannone (ITA) – 339.6 km/h

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Extra from a press launch issued by Prima Pramac Yamaha:

Miller and Oliveira Goal Factors as MotoGP Lands in Sepang for the Malaysian GP.

With the return to Europe approaching, the MotoGP World Championship leaves Australia behind and prepares for this weekend‘s spherical on the Sepang Worldwide Circuit, residence of the Malaysian GP — the twentieth race of the season. A weekend the place Jack Miller, Miguel Oliveira, and the complete Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP group goal to combat for necessary factors proper from the opening periods.

GINO BORSOI – Crew Director, Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP

Jack Miller: “The house GP was an intense one — an actual rollercoaster of feelings. Regardless that it didn‘t finish the way in which we had all hoped, it was superb to really feel the love and help from so many followers who got here from throughout Australia to cheer for us. With that very same power, we‘re now specializing in the following problem — probably the most technically full circuits on the calendar, the place we hope to showcase the strengths of the YZR-M1.”

Miguel Oliveira: “I’m actually motivated for the Malaysian GP, particularly after the sturdy tempo we confirmed within the second a part of final race. We consider the bike setup we present in Australia can work nicely right here too. The aim is to have a stable weekend, discovering the correct feeling with my Yamaha straight from the primary session.”

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Extra from a press launch issued by Lenovo Ducati: 

Spherical 20 in Malaysia for the Ducati Lenovo Crew.

The Ducati Lenovo Crew’s ultimate oversea spherical of the 2025 season will probably be on the Sepang Worldwide Circuit, as soon as once more that includes the Bagnaia-Pirro duo. As introduced, Marc Márquez, the present World Champion, is continuous his restoration from surgical procedure and won’t attend the occasion.

Sepang, a monitor simply exterior town of Kuala Lumpur, has hosted common races since 1999. Ducati has received right here eight occasions: Loris Capirossi achieved the feat in 2005, adopted by Stoner’s double win between 2007 and 2009, earlier than a seven-year drought. Andrea Dovizioso introduced the Desmosedici GP again to the highest step of the rostrum in 2016 and 2017. The Borgo Panigale producer’s roll of honor at this monitor concludes with the wins of the final three editions: Pecco Bagnaia received in 2022, then Enea Bastianini in 2023, and Pecco once more final 12 months.

It was something however a simple weekend for Pecco, with a double crash and an enormous quantity of knowledge to investigate. The complete Crew is working meticulously to shut the hole and get again to preventing for the highest locations on a difficult monitor, with very specific climate circumstances however a structure that actually is appropriate to the ability of the Desmosedici GP.

Michele, who, as a check rider, recurrently visits Sepang within the early months of the 12 months, is again racing on a decidedly extra acquainted monitor. The appointment for each riders is Friday, October twenty fourth, at 10:45 a.m. native time, for the primary free observe session.

Francesco Bagnaia (#63 Ducati Lenovo Crew) – third (274 factors)
“I’m forsaking one other troublesome weekend, with two crashes between the Dash and the race. I’m not happy, however I do know that, a minimum of for Sunday’s race, I did all the pieces I might to stick with the group and recuperate positions. It’s not a simple scenario, however the entire Crew and I are doing all the pieces we will to totally perceive the bike’s habits and get again to being aggressive. Moreover, on this monitor, now we have all the info from the early February check to have the ability to make an actual comparability”.

Michele Pirro (#51 Ducati Lenovo Crew)
“The primary race weekend was difficult: Phillip Island is hard, each bodily and by way of driving. I hadn’t raced there since years. In Sepang, nevertheless, I really feel extra snug; I’ve already ridden right here with this bike, and we positively have extra reference factors. We’re persevering with to work and collect data”.

2024 Outcomes: 

• GP Podium: 1° Bagnaia (Ducati); 2° Martin (Ducati), 3° Bastianini (Ducati)
• Pole Place: Bagnaia (Ducati), 01:56.337
• Quickest Lap:  Bagnaia (Ducati), 01:59.118

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Extra from a press launch issued by Monster Vitality Yamaha: 

Monster Vitality Yamaha MotoGP to Give Closing Push in Malaysian Fly-Away-Rounds Wrap-Up.

Monster Vitality Yamaha MotoGP’s Fabio Quartararo and Álex Rins are decided to push to the restrict on the Sepang Worldwide Circuit throughout this weekend’s Grand Prix of Malaysia, Spherical 20 of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship.

The Monster Vitality Yamaha MotoGP Crew have travelled from Phillip Island, Australia, to Sepang, Malaysia, for Spherical 20 of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship, the ultimate fly-away spherical on the calendar.

Regardless of challenges within the Australian GP Race, Fabio Quartararo holds on to ninth place within the championship standings, and he will probably be on the assault once more this weekend. He has raced on the Sepang circuit seven occasions (within the Moto3 class in 2016, in Moto2 in 2017 and 2018, and in MotoGP in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024) and by no means completed a full-length race exterior the highest 7. He got here near a podium in 2016, ending fourth, and in 2018 and 2023, when he completed fifth. He had his first and solely podium end on Malaysian soil in 2022, when he secured third place regardless of driving with a hand harm sustained in a crash earlier that weekend.

Álex Rins completely loved battling within the Phillip Island Race and is feeling desirous to step aboard his M1 once more to proceed the progress he and his crew have been making on the current GPs. He arrives on the ultimate abroad spherical holding nineteenth place within the rankings and totally motivated. The Spaniard is wanting ahead to the Malaysian GP, as Sepang traditionally is an effective monitor for him. He secured second place there in 2013 and third place in 2014 within the Moto3 class, and within the premier class he rode to second place in 2018. Furthermore, final 12 months he scored his greatest 2024 full-length race end result on Malaysian soil with an eighth place, and he’s eager to repeat the feat this 12 months.

The Sepang Worldwide Circuit staged its first Grand Prix in 1999 and has been on the MotoGP calendar ever since. The 5.5km monitor has a popularity for offering very thrilling racing because of a mix of gradual and medium-to-high-speed corners (5 left and ten proper) and two lengthy straights, the longest measuring 920m. The circuit can be one of many longest tracks of the MotoGP season, and the riders have to barter it in extraordinarily scorching and humid circumstances, making this GP further difficult.

The Grand Prix of Malaysia is held within the GMT+8 time zone. FP1 will happen on Friday from 10:45-11:30 native monitor time and Observe will probably be held from 15:00-16:00. On Saturday, FP2 will probably be held from 10:10-10:40, and the qualifying periods from 10:50-11:30, adopted by the 10-lap Dash that begins at 15:00. On Sunday*, Heat Up is held from 10:40-10:50 and the 20-lap Race begins at 15:00.

*On Sunday, October twenty sixth, daylight saving time will begin in Europe. The clocks in Malaysia don’t change, rising the time distinction between Malaysia and Europe by one hour for the Sunday.

Nevertheless, earlier than firing up their engines on Friday on the Sepang monitor, Quartararo and Rins took the chance to go to the Hong Leong Yamaha Motor Sdn. Bhd. (HLYM) headquarters, joined by Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP’s Miguel Oliveira in addition to BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2’s Izan Guevara and Tony Arbolino. The 5 riders loved a heat reception, giving them an additional enhance for the Malaysian GP weekend.

MASSIMO MEREGALLI – Crew Director, Monster Vitality Yamaha

“The earlier spherical didn’t fairly prove as we had hoped. Fabio had one other pole place and even set a brand new all-time lap document, however we have to be taught from what occurred throughout the Dash and the Race and do higher this time spherical. Álex, then again, had Race and is rising in confidence. Traditionally, Sepang is normally monitor for us. Final 12 months, Fabio and Álex additionally bought first rate outcomes right here. Furthermore, we had winter check right here firstly of this 12 months throughout the low season, which created excessive expectations, so we’re eager to maintain that development going this weekend.”

Fabio Quartararo:“I took a few days of relaxation to recharge earlier than coming to Malaysia. Now we’re right here in Sepang for the final fly-away spherical, and let’s see what we will do. We did some testing right here earlier within the 12 months, however since then the bike has modified quite a bit. Hopefully we will get some good outcomes and end this abroad journey on a constructive observe. For positive, the Malaysian followers will probably be cheering us on, which is all the time very nice.”

Alex Rins: “The Race in Phillip Island felt superb. Ending P7 is a powerful end result, so I’m desirous to see what we will do in Sepang. We’re making good steps ahead, and that’s what issues most. We’ll preserve this set-up for this weekend. Hopefully we get largely dry monitor time so we will acquire stable knowledge, after which let’s see what’s attainable.”

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