2025 Americas MotoGP: Pecco Bagnaia wins after Marc Marquez crashes from lead
Bagnaia wins chaotic Americas Gr𝓡and Prix for Ducati
Pecco Bagnaia won a dramat🌳ic 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix after Ducati team-mate Marc Marquez crashed out of a comfortable lead.
Marquez came into Sunday’s 20-lap grand prix at 𒁏COTA looking to extend his 100% winning record in 2025, having taken victory in Saturday’s sprint.
But he would ultimately crash out of the lead on lap nine, gifting 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pecco Bagnaia a comfortable first victory of the season.
Second for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez means 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez now trails his younger brother by one point in the standi♔ngs.
There was drama even before the grand prix got underway, as rain prior to lights led most to fit wet tyres, though KTM duo Brad♊ Binder and Enea Bastianini, and Trꦰackhouse Racing’s Ai Ogura, fitted slicks.
The start was then thrown into cꦯhaos with three minutes before lights out, after poleman Marc Marquez ran off the grid to get his dry bike - triggering a number or riders, including Bagnaia, to do the sa♑me.
With some s🐲till on the grid and others running into pitlane with bikes heading in the other direct🍒ion, the start was delayed.
There were no changes to the grid, as had been the case in Argentina 2018 in a similar situation, with Marc Marquezꦍ lining up on pole 🅘for the shortened 19-lap race.
Marquez grabbed the holeshot from pole, whil𓂃e Bagnaia bat🐼tled with Alex Marquez for second over the opening tour.
This allowed Marc Marquez to lead by 1.1s to🧸 start lap two, with Bagnaia eventually getting a move for second done on the fourth tour at Turn 12.
Leading by over two seconds when he began lap nine, Marc Marquez’s race came to an end at Turn 4 when he took too much kerb and tucked the front of his facto🍸ry Ducati.
This released Bagnaia into a lead he would not lose, with the double world champion scoring his first win of thꦰe season by 2.089s over Alex Marquez💖.
The Gresini rider, now the championship leader, kep༺t VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio at bay in second, while the latter’s team-mate Franco Morbidelli was fou🌜rth.
Jack Miller was the leading Yamaha in fifth for Pramac, while Marco Bezzecchi came through from 13th to sixth for Aprilia ahead of Tech3’s Enea B𓂃astianini.
Luca Marini scored꧑ his best Honda grand prix result in eighth ahead of Ogura and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo - who crashed his dry bike on the sighting lap before the abo൲rted start.
The final points went to Alex Rins (Yaꦛmaha), Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse), Augusto Fernandez (Pramac), Maverick Vinales (Tech3) and Lore🍰nzo Savadori (Aprilia).
Vinales was forc𒐪ed to start from pitlane after his bike developed an issue on ⛎the grid.
Marc Marquez rejoined the race after his cr🎉ash on lap nine, but a broken fairing and missing foot peg forced him into pitlane on lap 13.
There were crashes for Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer - who was running fifth - KTM’s Pedro Acosta, Honda’s Joan Mir and LCR’s Johann Zarco, while Brad Binder retired with te♋chnical issues.
