MotoGP News: Marc Marquez takes dominating win in Germany

While his competition wilted behind him, Marc Marquez took his fourth consecutive MotoGP win and his ninth MotoGP victory at the Sachsenring as he dominated the German Grand Prix.

The factory Ducati rider was unchallenged – leading the entire race from start to finish.

It was Ducati star’s 69th MotoGP win in his 200th premier class start, extended his unbeaten run to eight races in a row, including Sprints.

Costly falls for Fabio di Giannantonio and Marco Bezzecchi promoted the injured Alex Marquez to second, while Francesco Bagnaia completed the podium from tenth on the grid.

With the line-up already reduced to 18 riders, accidents and collisions saw just ten of them reach the checkered flag.

After a wet Saturday and morning warm-up, the clouds cleared for a dry 30-lap grand prix, with all riders choosing the hard front and medium rear slicks.

LIGHTS OUT: MARC MARQUEZ GRABS HOLESHOT, DIGGIA POUNCES

With the threat of wet weather forcing its way into playing a leading role diminishing towards go time, we strapped ourselves in for a dry German GP and as the lights went out, it was Marc Marquez who collected the holeshot as Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) made a blinder from P6 to grab an early P3. Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing) slotted into P2, as Johann Zarco (CASTROL Honda LCR) slipped to P5 on the opening lap from the middle of the front row.

Di Giannantonio and Bezzecchi exchanged P2 on the opening lap before the former made a move stick at Turn 12, as Alex Marquez and Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) engaged battle too. Marc Marquez, meanwhile, was blissfully unaware of the fight unfolding behind him as he stretched his advantage to 0.7s at the end of Lap 3.

ACOSTA CRASHES AS MARC MARQUEZ EXTENDS ADVANTAGE

Acosta’s Grand Prix then ended with a crash at Turn 2 from P5, so that was KTM’s main hopes of the Sachsenring podium over. That promoted Bagnaia to P5, with Alex Marquez swarming all over the tailpipes of Bezzecchi for P3. 0.6s up the road in P2, Di Giannantonio was losing around a tenth a lap to Marc Marquez at this stage of the Grand Prix.

It was more than that for the next few laps though. The #93 was the only rider capable of lapping in the 1:20s on a consistent basis, he hadn’t dropped into the 1:21 bracket, and the gap on Lap 8 of 30 was up to 1.7s. And by Lap 16, just over half race distance, Marc Marquez’s lead was north of three seconds.

PODIUM CONTENDERS CRASH

Di Giannantonio was under a second ahead of Bezzecchi, with Alex Marquez and then Bagnaia all operating at equal distance behind each other. But then, we lost our second place rider from the Grand Prix. Di Giannantonio tucked the front at Turn 1 on Lap 18, and Zarco was out of the race at the same corner – albeit a little further around – as two of the top six had premature ends to their German GPs.

That meant Alex Marquez was lifted to a podium position in P3, and the rider second in the championship chase had 1.2s to play with to Pecco in P4. But then, Turn 1 caught out our P2 rider again. Bezzecchi’s impressive race was over in similar fashion to Di Giannantonio, so that meant it was Marc Marquez leading Alex Marquez by 5.9s, with Bagnaia now P3.

Turn 1 was really proving tricky. In the fight for the top 10, Ai Ogura (Trackhouse MotoGP Team) took out the luckless Joan Mir (Honda HRC Castrol), and while the yellow flags were waving, Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia Racing) chucked it down the road at Turn 1 too.

THE SACHSENKING KEEPS HIS CROWN

In terms of the victory and podium fight, there was nothing much to report. Marc Marquez cruised to a 9th MotoGP victory at the Sachsenring, with Alex Marquez limiting the points damage with a brilliant ride to P2 while nursing his fractured left hand, as Pecco salvages a solid P3 after a Saturday to forget.

YOUR POINTS SCORERS

In the fight for P4, Quartararo fended off Fermin Aldeguer (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) as the Frenchman and Spaniard claim P4 and P5 in Germany. The returning Luca Marini (Honda HRC Castrol) earned his best HRC result in P6, in what was a fantastic fight between the Italian, seventh place Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) and eighth place Jack Miller (Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP).

Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse MotoGP Team) and Alex Rins (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) rounded out the top 10 and that was your lot in terms of finishers in a race of attrition at the Sachsenring.

2025 German MotoGP, Sachsenring – Race Results – 30 Laps

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