Marc Marquez sealed a third consecutive pole position of the season at the Americas Grand Prix meaning it is his first qualifying hat-trick since 2019.
The factory Ducati rider, who has also won both sprint races and grands prix this season, will lead an all-Ducati front row alongside Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46) and younger brother Alex Marquez (Gresini).
It is the first time in 2025 that Alex will not line up directly alongside Marc for the races. Meanwhile, Marc’s team-mate Francesco Bagnaia could only manage sixth.
Q1 turned into even more of a shootout than usual after Raul Fernandez’s crash at Turn 10 brought out a red flag with only eight minutes remaining. At the time of the stoppage, no rider had yet set a representative time on the lengthy 3.462-mile circuit.
The first flying laps after the restart proved decisive given the lifespan of the soft rear tyre every rider was running. Luca Marini set an immediate pace and won that mini-battle aboard the factory Honda.
Marini, who appeared to have found something in the preceding FP2 session as Honda continued to make encouraging progress, thus joined his team-mate Joan Mir in Q2.
Factory Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo was the other man to make the cut. As was the case for Marini, his first lap after the red flag was enough to keep him in second. His attempt to improve on that was quickly over when he almost lost control of the bike at Turn 1 on his second flying lap.
Notables to miss Q2 were LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco, Marco Bezzecchi of the factory Aprilia squad and KTM factory man Brad Binder. Zarco and Bezzecchi had both been hampered by falls during the course of Friday.
Q2 was a hectic affair that included a brief spill for Gresini’s Fermin Aldeguer at Turn 1, as well as its fair share of yellow flag and shortcut infringements. Di Giannantonio was briefly the victim of a cancellation for failing to slow for a yellow, and appeared third on the screens at the end of the session. But officials then reversed their decision, returning the Italian to second.
Pedro Acosta was fourth-fastest for KTM, while Franco Morbidelli kept up VR46’s all-round good form with the fifth-fastest time ahead of Bagnaia.
The factory HRC duo of Marini and Mir also had a successful qualifying in the context of Honda’s struggles in recent years, and will line up seventh and eighth.
Mir followed Marc Marquez around Circuit of the Americas at one point in the session, and in some parts of the track he looked more than comfortable in the Ducati’s shadow. Later, though, the 2020 world champion fell, bringing out the yellow flag that almost cost di Giannantonio.
Jack Miller, who starred in the wet on Friday for Pramac Yamaha, completes the third row. The fourth row will be made up of the 2024 Americas Grand Prix winner Maverick Vinales (KTM), 2021 world champion Quartararo and Aldeguer.
MotoGP Americas Grand Prix qualifying result
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| Cla | Rider | # | Bike | Laps | Time | Interval | km/h | Speed Trap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 |  M. Marquez Ducati Team |
93 |  |
Ducati | 7 |
2'01.088 |
163.903 | 334 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 |  F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46 |
49 |  |
Ducati | 7 |
+0.101 2'01.189 |
0.101 | 163.767 | 338 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | A. Marquez Gresini Racing |
73 |  |
Ducati | 7 |
+0.360 2'01.448 |
0.259 | 163.418 | 334 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | P. Acosta Red Bull KTM Factory Racing |
37 |  |
KTM | 7 |
+0.416 2'01.504 |
0.056 | 163.342 | 339 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | F. Morbidelli Team VR46 |
21 |  |
Ducati | 7 |
+0.441 2'01.529 |
0.025 | 163.309 | 333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | F. Bagnaia Ducati Team |
63 |  |
Ducati | 6 |
+0.523 2'01.611 |
0.082 | 163.199 | 335 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | L. Marini Honda HRC |
10 |  |
Honda | 7 |
+0.649 2'01.737 |
0.126 | 163.030 | 334 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | J. Mir Honda HRC |
36 | |
Honda | 5 |
+0.920 2'02.008 |
0.271 | 162.668 | 332 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 |  J. Miller Pramac Racing |
43 |  |
Yamaha | 7 |
+0.920 2'02.008 |
0.000 | 162.668 | 329 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | M. Viñales Tech 3 |
12 |  |
KTM | 7 |
+0.931 2'02.019 |
0.011 | 162.653 | 334 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 |  F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing |
20 |  |
Yamaha | 6 |
+0.944 2'02.032 |
0.013 | 162.636 | 327 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | F. Aldeguer Gresini Racing |
54 |  |
Ducati | 7 |
+1.331 2'02.419 |
0.387 | 162.121 | 331 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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