2025 Spanish MotoGP: Alex Marquez takes maiden win after Marc Marquez crash
Alex Marquez scores first MotoGP win at home race
Alex Marquez scored a maiden MotoGP victory at the Spaꦓnish Grand Prix to take the championship lead after Marc Marquez crashed early on.
Making his debut in 2020 at Jerez as a factory Honda rider, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez finally broke his duck five years later in front of a capacity crowd at the ꦺAndaluci𝓡an venue.
Consistently a second-place finisher in 2025, the opportunity to win presented itself on lap three of 25 when factory Ducati rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez crashed out of third while heading Alex Marquez.
Overhauling Pecco Bagnaia on the fo🌜urth tour, Alex Marquez quickly pulled away from the Italian and eventually took the lead at the start of lap 11.
From there, he eased away from the field to become MotoGP’s newest winner and Gresini’s first sin🐭ce Marc Marquez at Phillip Island last year.
Alex Marquez is once again at the☂ head of the championship by a point over Marc Marquez, who recovered to 12th on a damaged GP25.
Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo led for t๊he first 10 laps and eventually came home second for his first podiu🔯m since Indonesia 2023.
Bagnaia completed the top three and♉ iꦚs now 20 points off the championship lead.
Quartararo nailed his launch from pole position to take the lead a🍰t the beginning of the grand prix, while Marc Marquez dropped to third at Turn 1 after a poor start.
Trailing Bagnaia, the factory Ducati duo’s race was almost ended at Turn 6 when Alex 🥂Marquez outbraked himself and narrowly avoided hitting them.
Marc Marquez then threw his bike up the inside of team-mate Bagnaia Turn 7, with the pair swapping ꧅positions through the next few corners, before making contact into Turn 11.
Bagnaia held the inside line and maintained second, while Qua𝔍rtararo continued to lead.
On lap three, disaster struc💝k Marc Marquez as he fell going through Turn 8.
Alex Marquez dropped to fifth after his lap one scare at Turn 6, but was up to second with a clean move on Bagnaia into the l൩ast corner on the fourth tour.
Thus began his chase for Quartararo and the lead, with Alex Marquez making his decisive move at Turn 1 on lap 11💟.
Quartararo couldn’t fight the move, with Alex Marquez instantly𒀰 moving almost a second clear and getting his lead up to well over two seconds before easing off on the final lap to take the chequered flag 1.561s ahead.
Yamaha’s Quartararo was pressured ⛦by Bagnaia for the rest of the race by held the factory Ducat🐈i at bay by 0.656s.
Tech3 KTM’s Maverick Vinales looked li🌟ke a podium threat at one stage, but couldn’t advance on fourth at the chequered flag.
Fabio Di Gia𝐆nnantonio was fifth on the VR46 Ducati🥂, with Brad Binder sixth ahead of factory KTM team-mate Pedro Acosta.
Ai Ogura was the leading Aprilia in eighth for Trackhouse Racing, 𒁃while Enea Bastianini made it four KTMs ⭕inside the top 10 in ninth.
Luca Marini was 10th for H🐠onda after team-mate Joan Mir crashed out of the top six on lap 15.
Marc Marquez rejoined the race after his crash on a badl𒈔y damaged Ducati and snatched 12th from Yamaha’s Alex Rins at the last corner of the final lap.
Honda wildca꧟rd Aleix Espargaro was 14th at the chequered flag but could lose those two points due as he faces a tyre pressure ♛investigation.
Marco Bezzecchi was 15th on his factory Aprilia after running off on the second lap aℱt Turn 1.
Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini) and Franco Morbidelli (VR46) crashed out of the꧟ race, while a technical issue forced Jack Miller (Pramac) to park up early.
LCR Honda’s Somkiat Ch🥂antra also retired due to 𒈔arm pump.
