MotoGP Australian Grand Prix results as Raul Fernandez takes first win and Francesco Bagnaia crashes

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Raul Fernandez is a MotoGP race winner after the Trackhouse star sealed glory in the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, as Francesco Bagnaia crashed at Phillip Island on Sunday.

The 24-year-old enjoyed his 76th career MotoGP start at Phillip Island, having never finished higher than P5 through his previous premier class Grand Prix entries. Fernandez winning the Australian GP even secured his Trackhouse team their first podium since their debut in 2024.

Fernandez won the Australian GP ahead of Fabio Di Giannantonio by 1.418 seconds after the VR46 rider showed strong late-race pace to trim his deficit. Aprilia star Marco Bezzecchi got third place with a 2.410s gap to Fernandez, despite having to do his double long lap penalty.

Bezzecchi had to serve a double long lap penalty during the Australian GP as his punishment for causing a crash with Marc Marquez in the Indonesian Grand Prix. Ducati ace Marquez sat out the Australian GP due to a collarbone injury, and will also miss at least the Malaysian GP.

Raul Fernandez beats Fabio Di Giannantonio to win the 2025 MotoGP Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island

Bezzecchi crucially got the holeshot from second place on the grid to lead the Australian GP into Turn 1, knowing that he had to attack from the start to build a margin for the first of his two long lap penalties. KTM rider Pedro Acosta also got a great start to climb from P5 to P3.

The straight-line speed advantage of the KTM RC16 compared to the Aprilia RSGP25 also let Acosta breeze past Trackhouse rider Raul Fernandez into Turn 1 on Lap 3 of 27. Acosta knew he could not get stuck behind Fernandez after seeing Bezzecchi start to open a lead in front.

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But Fernandez did not wait long to strike back, as the Spaniard swooped around the outside of his compatriot at the Miller hairpin on L4 to regain P2. Fernandez and Acosta’s fight even let Bezzecchi build enough of a lead to only fall to third place after his first long lap penalty.

While Fabio Quartararo scored pole position for the Australian GP this Saturday, the Yamaha rider did not have the race pace to go with Bezzecchi, Fernandez and Acosta. Yet his speed was enough to inherit P3 after Bezzecchi’s second long lap penalty on L7 dropped him to P6.

Quartararo’s time in the podium places proved very short-lived, as Gresini star Alex Marquez moved into third place thanks to the extra power of his Ducati at Turn 1 on L8. It opened the floodgates, as Quartararo continued to lament Yamaha’s lack of top speed as he plummeted.

Yet as Quartararo’s race quickly unravelled, Fernandez’s was just starting. The 24-year-old began to build a comfortable lead over Acosta, and he even led by 2.964s when Gresini rider Marquez got around the KTM star’s outside at the Miller hairpin for second place on Lap 16.

Fernandez produced extremely consistent pace in the lead of the Australian GP to also boast a 3.110s lead when Di Giannantonio overtook Marquez for P2 on L23. The VR46 rider used the advantage of his Ducati GP25 over the Gresini man’s GP24 to dive to the inside at Turn 8.

VR46’s Di Giannantonio soon proved he had superior late-race pace to Fernandez once past Gresini rival Marquez to reduce the margin at the front. Marquez even found himself off the podium on the penultimate lap, as Bezzecchi rose onto the rostrum with a dive at Turn 10.

LCR Honda rider Johann Zarco was the first retirement from the 2025 Australian GP after he refused to pick up his RC213V after running wide through Turn 1 on L5. But home hero Jack Miller of Pramac Yamaha soon followed the Frenchman in retiring with his crash later on L5.

The Australian GP would also prove to be yet another race that Francesco Bagnaia will want to forget. Bagnaia was the works Ducati team’s main hope at Phillip Island without Marquez this weekend, yet the two-time MotoGP champion crashed out of just P12 on Lap 24 of 28.

2025 MotoGP Australian Grand Prix results