Submitted by David Emmett on
Bradley Smith started the weekend strongly at Sepang by topping the first session of practice for the 125cc class. The Briton finished the session ahead of KTM's Marc Marquez and his Aspar team mate Julian Simon. Nicolas Terol completed the top 5.
Scott Redding had a strong outing, ending the day in 12th, a second and a half down on his fellow countryman Smith, but Danny Webb had a much more difficult start, setting the 22nd time and suffering a big crash in the latter part of practice. American Cameron Beaubier finished the day in 25th.
Results:
| Pos | No. | Rider | Bike | Time | Diff | Diff Previous |
| 1 | 38 | Bradley SMITH | APRILIA | 2'14.895 | ||
| 2 | 93 | Marc MARQUEZ | KTM | 2'15.095 | 0.200 | 0.200 |
| 3 | 60 | Julian SIMON | APRILIA | 2'15.201 | 0.306 | 0.106 |
| 4 | 18 | Nicolas TEROL | APRILIA | 2'15.520 | 0.625 | 0.319 |
| 5 | 94 | Jonas FOLGER | APRILIA | 2'15.746 | 0.851 | 0.226 |
| 6 | 11 | Sandro CORTESE | DERBI | 2'15.753 | 0.858 | 0.007 |
| 7 | 6 | Joan OLIVE | DERBI | 2'15.841 | 0.946 | 0.088 |
| 8 | 24 | Simone CORSI | APRILIA | 2'16.126 | 1.231 | 0.285 |
| 9 | 12 | Esteve RABAT | APRILIA | 2'16.186 | 1.291 | 0.060 |
| 10 | 44 | Pol ESPARGARO | DERBI | 2'16.306 | 1.411 | 0.120 |
| 11 | 29 | Andrea IANNONE | APRILIA | 2'16.405 | 1.510 | 0.099 |
| 12 | 45 | Scott REDDING | APRILIA | 2'16.456 | 1.561 | 0.051 |
| 13 | 73 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | APRILIA | 2'16.722 | 1.827 | 0.266 |
| 14 | 17 | Stefan BRADL | APRILIA | 2'16.853 | 1.958 | 0.131 |
| 15 | 33 | Sergio GADEA | APRILIA | 2'16.864 | 1.969 | 0.011 |
| 16 | 77 | Dominique AEGERTER | DERBI | 2'16.902 | 2.007 | 0.038 |
| 17 | 7 | Efren VAZQUEZ | DERBI | 2'17.135 | 2.240 | 0.233 |
| 18 | 8 | Lorenzo ZANETTI | APRILIA | 2'17.460 | 2.565 | 0.325 |
| 19 | 35 | Randy KRUMMENACHER | APRILIA | 2'17.582 | 2.687 | 0.122 |
| 20 | 39 | Luis SALOM | APRILIA | 2'17.633 | 2.738 | 0.051 |
| 21 | 14 | Johann ZARCO | APRILIA | 2'17.776 | 2.881 | 0.143 |
| 22 | 99 | Danny WEBB | APRILIA | 2'17.815 | 2.920 | 0.039 |
| 23 | 71 | Tomoyoshi KOYAMA | LONCIN | 2'17.885 | 2.990 | 0.070 |
| 24 | 28 | Elly ILIAS | APRILIA | 2'18.653 | 3.758 | 0.768 |
| 25 | 16 | Cameron BEAUBIER | KTM | 2'19.144 | 4.249 | 0.491 |
| 26 | 88 | Michael RANSEDER | APRILIA | 2'19.514 | 4.619 | 0.370 |
| 27 | 53 | Jasper IWEMA | HONDA | 2'19.841 | 4.946 | 0.327 |
| 28 | 21 | Jakub KORNFEIL | LONCIN | 2'20.800 | 5.905 | 0.959 |
| 29 | 23 | Muhammad ZULFAHMI | YAMAHA | 2'22.194 | 7.299 | 1.394 |
| 30 | 47 | Blake LEIGH-SMITH | HONDA | 2'22.821 | 7.926 | 0.627 |
| 31 | 87 | Luca MARCONI | APRILIA | 2'23.052 | 8.157 | 0.231 |
| 32 | 10 | Luca VITALI | APRILIA | 2'23.929 | 9.034 | 0.877 |
| Not qualified (Out 107%) 2'24.337 | ||||||
| 19 | Quentin JACQUET | APRILIA | 2'26.390 | 11.495 | 2.461 | |
Round Number:
16
2009
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