Six-time MotoGP world champ continues his supreme 2025 season, turning into first Ducati rider to win 5 consecutive GPs.
Marc Marquez has gained the Czech MotoGP for his eighth victory in 12 races this season and his fifth in a row, extending his commanding lead on the earth championship.
The manufacturing facility Ducati rider beat Marco Bezzecchi on an Aprilia by virtually two seconds on Sunday whereas Pedro Acosta on a KTM got here in third in his first podium end of the season.
Marquez had a fifth straight excellent weekend, successful each the dash on Saturday and Sunday’s race.
The 32-year-old Spaniard now leads the world championship with 381 factors, 120 forward of his youthful brother, Alex, who crashed, and 168 forward of Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia.
“It has been an excellent first a part of the season and particularly these final races,” Marc Marquez mentioned.
“I really feel higher and higher, and I’m driving tremendous good,” he added.
Marquez outpaces his rivals
Bagnaia began from pole on a sunny Sunday at Brno however retained the lead solely till the second lap when Bezzecchi eased previous him, and Marc Marquez adopted go well with quickly afterwards.
Acosta did the identical to calm down in third after getting a lift from a third-place end in Saturday’s dash.
Marquez glided previous Bezzecchi on lap eight because the runaway trio saved build up their lead and, as so typically this season, saved widening the hole comfortably.
The three stayed put till the end line though fourth-placed Bagnaia gave Acosta a tough time, urgent from behind.
“The primary lap was unbelievable,” Bezzecchi mentioned.
“I had a lot enjoyable within the first half of the race, however sadly, when Marc handed me, I instantly noticed that he had one thing extra.”
“I attempted to assault, however he was robust. Anyway, I made a incredible efficiency. I’m very, very joyful,” the Italian added.
Reigning world champion Jorge Martin collected his first factors after ending seventh within the first race he has accomplished this yr.
Martin sat out the primary three races after two preseason crashes, and when he returned at Qatar in April, he crashed closely once more and missed the following seven occasions.
Brno returns quicker than ever
Marc Marquez took 40 minutes 04.628 seconds to finish the 21 laps on the resurfaced 5.4km (3.4-mile) Brno circuit, which returned to the MotoGP calendar after a five-year break attributable to monetary woes.
The improved on-track outcomes of the Brno resurfacing had been evident with lap occasions this yr a number of seconds underneath the earlier lap document.
Bezzecchi crossed the road 1.753 seconds adrift of Marquez, whereas Acosta trailed the six-time MotoGP champion by 3.366 seconds.
Nearly 220,000 followers had been within the stands for the weekend as Marquez recorded his fourth MotoGP win at Brno after victories in 2013, 2017 and 2019.
Alex Marquez retired after crashing on lap two to depart Brno with out a level after a disappointing seventeenth spot within the dash race.
He took out Joan Mir, who additionally walked away from the gravel security space, identical to Enea Bastianini a lap later.
Japan’s Takaaki Nakagami was dominated out of the race after struggling a knee damage in a crash in Saturday’s dash.
The MotoGP circus will now take a break and resume with the Austrian GP on August 15-17.
“Now it’s the summer time break however nonetheless 10 races to go. Time to loosen up, however in Austria I [will] preserve the identical mentality with the identical depth,” Marc Marquez mentioned.
He’s eyeing his seventh MotoGP world title – and first since 2019 – which might put him degree with Valentino Rossi and one behind the legendary Giacomo Agostini.
