Marc Marquez: “I'm Mr. Saturdays! But...” - MotoGP title leader reflects on Sprint dominance

Marc Marquez discusses perfect 2025 MotoGP🐻 Sprint record.

Marc Marquez, 6 Sprint wins, French MotoGP
Marc Marquez, 6 Sprint wins, French MotoGP

During his debut Ducati season at Gresini, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez took just one Saturday Sprint MotoGP win versus three Grand Prix victories.

His♔ rostrum tally was an equal ten each, for Sprints vs GPs, butꦗ Marquez and most of his rivals felt he was always at his strongest on Sundays.

But as a factory Ducati rider in 2025, it’s the Sprints where Marquez has a perfect score of six out of six, while winning h🍬alf of the GPs.

Two🍸 of the GP defeats were self-inflicted, by mistakes at COTA and Jerez, while Johann Zarco used a smart strategy and mastered changeable weather to keep Marquez comfortably at bay at Le Mans.

“At the moꦺment, I'm Mr. Saturdays,” Marquez said in France. “But I woul📖d like to be Mr. Sundays and miss some Saturdays!”

“It's true that during the pre-season I have been working a lot on those Saturdays🃏 because it was my weak point last year, qualifying and the Sprint.

“This year looks like the opposi♐te, so 💮now we need to find the balance.

“But on Sundays, I always feel good. I feel fast. The thing is that I🤡 made two mistakes [COTA and Jerez].”

Marquez’s record sixth consecutive Sprint victory cꦗame after passing Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo, who arri💖ved home on a high after breaking Yamaha’s podium drought at Jerez, then qualifying on pole for the second event in a row.

“It's goo😼🉐d news for the championship,” Marquez, speaking before Zarco’s Sunday victory for Honda, said of Quartararo’s resurgence.

“First of all, I would like Ducati to keep its dominance. But for the championship, it’s better if we have different manufacturers⛦ [on the podium] and big names like Quartararo - who is a world champion, a superstar.

“This𝄹 makes our sport bigger. So I'm happy that he comes back at these races. Then maybe will 🍰arrive other races that he will struggle more. But Jerez and here he was super fast.”

Le Mans Sprint race
Le Mans Sprint race

Although it took Marquez until lap 6 to pass Quartararo for the lead in the Sprint, that was largely due to a storming opening lap b𒆙y the Fre💫nchman, where he pulled 0.727s clear of the red machine.

Marquez was faster than the Yamaha rider from lap 2 onwards, while Gresini riders Alex Marquez and Fermin Aldeguer also got the better of Qua🌺rtararo late in the race.

After backing off ‘a little too much’ on the final lap, Marc’s official winning margin over his brother was just 0.530s. But he later warned: “When I pushed fuꦚll gas in practice, I was ‘30.7,’30.8. Today, I was ‘31.1,’31.0. So I had that margin...”

With Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia both failing to finish the𝓰 wet grand prix, Marc takes a 22-point title lead into next weekend’s Silverstone round.

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