Saturday, September 13, 2025
misano world Circuit, italy
Misano World Circuit. Italy: Track length: 2.626 miles / 4.226 kilometers
Free Practice 2: 10.10am – 10.40pm – Dry Track
Air Temperature: 77°F / 25°C
Track Temperature: 78.8°F / 26°C
#25 Raul Fernandez
P12 – Best Lap: 1’31.761 – Lap 7 of 12
Top speed: 184.36 mph / 296.7 km/h
#79 Ai Ogura
P14 – Best Lap: 1’31.870 – Lap 7 of 12
Top speed: 186.91 mph / 300.8 km/h
Qualifying 1: 10.50am – 11.05am – Dry track
Air Temperature: 80.6°F / 27°C
Track Temperature: 84.2°F / 29°C
#25 Raul Fernandez - Qualified P14
P4 – Best Lap: 1’30.977 – Lap 7 of 9
Top speed: 185.85 mph / 299.1 km/h
#79 Ai Ogura - Qualified P15
P5 – Best Lap: 1’30.977 – Lap 8 of 9
Top speed: 184.86 mph / 297.5 km/h
Sprint Race: 3.00pm – Dry track: 13 Laps – 34.138 miles / 54.938 kilometers
Air Temperature: 80.6°F / 27°C
Track Temperature: 95°F / 35°C
#25 Raul Fernandez – P9 (Race Points: 1 Championship Standing: 14 Total Points: 79)
Race Time: 20’04.560 Best Lap: 1’31.649 – Lap 6 of 13
Average speed: 101.97 mph 164.1 km/h Top speed: 185.85 mph / 299.1 km/h
#79 Ai Ogura – P12 (Race Points: 0 Championship Standing: 16 Total Points: 69)
Race Time: 20’08.566 Best Lap: 1’32.072 – Lap 3 of 13
Average speed: 101.66 mph 163.6 km/h Top speed: 186.91 mph / 300.8 km/h
Notes & Quotes:
Point for P9 in the Sprint race for #25 Raul Fernandez and 11th place for #79 Ai Ogura
RAUL FERNANDEZ
- Grid position: P13 – Race start on Front: medium – slick tire & Rear: soft – slick tire
- The opening sessions, on Friday, proved challenging for Raul as he adjusted to the high grip pavement around the Misano World Circuit. A big crash at the fast left, turn 15 in afternoon Practice, left him unable to challenge for a direct entry into the 2nd Qualifying session, making Saturday morning’s Qualifying 1 a target session for positions on the start grid.
- Raul could not find enough pace in Q1 to finish in the top two and progress – P4 in the end and so, 14th on the grid for the afternoon Sprint and Sunday’s main race.
- Going to the grid ahead of the Sprint race start, the withdrawal of Joan Mir ahead promoted Raul to 13th.
- A good start gave Raul 11th in the opening exchanges and 12th across the stripe for the first time.
- He grabbed 11th on Lap 3 and was 10th by the 5th time around. On Lap 7 he went to 9th place and ran the rest of the race there, scoring a World Championship point at the checkers.
“First of all, while I’m fine, my whole body feels in pain - I don’t remember the last time when I had a crash like yesterday. But anyway, today was a very positive day and I’m happy. This morning, in Qualifying, I had the pace to go to Q2 but I made a mistake. This is not an excuse, but it was because I felt a lot of pain and without this I would have probably not done this mistake, as it wasn’t normal. Anyway, yesterday and this morning we worked very well with the soft tire, so today I felt good. I had a good start in the Sprint and tried to catch up with Jorge (Martin). I managed to close the gap a bit but after when I’m at 0.4 or 0.5 I can’t use the front tire well, I couldn’t ride like I wanted. I want to understand how I can improve this for the future as I think my pace was a little bit better than Jorge’s and also Marini’s but I couldn’t overtake them. After the crash of yesterday, I feel that we made a good job. It wasn’t easy to be strong today and we did quite well.”
AI OGURA
- Grid position: P14 – Race start on Front: medium – slick tire & Rear: soft – slick tire
- Ai spent Friday’s practice sessions getting used to premier class power around the twisting ribbon of asphalt at Misano. While his pace improved, he was not in a position to challenge the top ten for a place in Qualifying 2 on Saturday and like his teammate, would need to take part in the Q1 shootout.
- Entry into Q2 was not to be, Ai initially qualifying in 15th overall, only to be promoted to P14 with Mir’s withdrawal.
- Lap 1 of the 13 lap Sprint saw Ai drop to 15th before re-gaining his grid position by the end of the lap.
- Having run in 15th for the next 3 laps, he moved to 14th on Lap 5 and then 13th on Lap 6.
- Lap 8 came around and Ai made a move stick in the early part of the lap and he consolidated 12th place – challenging for 11th through the final 5 rotations.
- No points, at the finish, for 12th place but progress achieved ahead of the 27 lap San Marino Grand Prix on Sunday.
“The Sprint was not so bad - we made a big step from yesterday. During the race there were a lot of riders in front and especially after the start it was difficult to manage where to go. After that, I made a few mistakes and Enea (Bastianini) passed me and he managed to overtake Pecco and Johann (Zarco). I couldn’t find a way past them although I think my pace was a bit better than the riders in the front, but I couldn’t overtake them. But, overall, I’m really happy. From yesterday we changed just a little bit on the electronic side but, I think, the biggest improvement comes from riding. At this kind of circuit, you need a lot of time on the bike to understand it better. Hopefully I can get another step tomorrow.”
“Good race from Raul, we were able to score a point. Starting from P13, he stayed there and did some good lap times. Then when we were behind Martin it was difficult to get really close because to stay in the draft it was difficult for the tire temperature. So, we finished P9, which is a good result. Also, Ai was able to recover a few positions. I think for him it was important to understand a few things, also looking ahead to tomorrow. Let’s try to recover some positions for tomorrow, the race is longer and we’ll try to do even better.”
- DAVIDE BRIVIO, TEAM PRINCIPAL
Trackhouse MotoGP Team Standing - Championship Position: 8th Total Points: 148
Grand Prix of San Marino - 27 Laps: Sunday - 2pm (Local: GMT +2) 8am (ET) 5am (PT)
