2025 Thai MotoGP: Marc Marquez cruises to first sprint as factory Ducati rider
Eight-time world champion makes winning start to life at new M𝔉otoGP team
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez opened the 2025 MotoGP season at the Thai Grand Prix by cruising to his first sprint victory as a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:factory Ducati team rider on Saturday.
The blockbuster rider🌌 signing of last summer, Marquez’s move to the factory Ducati team came with the expectation that the 32-year-old would be a contender for his seventh♑ premier class crown from the off.
Qualifying on pole over younger brother 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez (Gresini Racing) and his factory team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Marq😼uez led from start to finish in the 13-lap spr🗹int.
He took the chequ꧂ered flag over a second clear of Alex Marquez, with Marc Marquez leading the championship for the first time since he was last w𒀰orld champion in 2019 when he was still a Honda rider.
The qualifying order for the top three stayed the same for the sprint, while Trackhouse Aprilia rookie Ai Ogura stunned in fourth ahead of VR46’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli.
Marc Marquez grabbed the holeshot off the line on his factory GP25, with Alex Marquez slotting in behind after fending off a very brief Turn 1 chall⛦enge from Bagnaia.
By the end of the second lap, Marc Marquez was♍ over seven tenths clear of the field, while Bagnaia was 🌺already struggling to stay on terms with the pair ahead.
He crossed the line to start lap thre📖e a second adrift of Aleꦜx Marquez and had Ogura breathing down his neck.
Marc Marquez g𝐆ot his lead up to over a second for the first time at the start of lap seven and maintained this advantage through to the chequered flag.
He was 1.185s clear of A🦹lex Marquez, who came under n♔o threat from Bagnaia behind in a comfortable second.
Bagnaia was able to keep Ogura at bay, but the rookie was only 0.969s behind the double MotoGP c⛦hampion in his first ever MotoGP race having started fifth on the grid.
VR46’s Morbidelli - who will serve as three-place grid penalty on Sunday, dropping him to ninth for the grand prix - was a lonely fifth ahead of top KTM 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pedro Acosta.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo inherited top Yamaha honours in seventh after Pramac’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller crashed out of the top six on lap seven.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder faded to eighth after an early battle with factory KTM team-mate Acosta, while the final sprint point went to Honda’s Joan Mir.
Th🎃is marked just his second ever sprint points and his first since the 2024 Spanish GP.
Honda stablemate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco (LCR) was 0.756s further back in 10th, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Raul Fernandez was over 10 seconds behind rookie team-ma♏te Ogura in 11th.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marco Bezzecchi’s Aprilia race de⛦but went wrong at the start when wheelspin off the line dumped him down to 19🦹th at the opening corner.
He recovered to finish 12th ahead of Gresini Ducati rookie 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fermin Aldeguer.
VR46’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Di Giannantonio was the only oth🍸er re🐼tirement in the race, pulling out late on with an apparent issue.
