Marc Marquez wins Czech MotoGP in Brno, extends championship lead

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Six-time MotoGP satellite champ continues his ultimate 2025 season, becoming archetypal Ducati rider to triumph 5 consecutive GPs.

Published On 20 Jul 2025

Marc Marquez has won the Czech MotoGP for his eighth triumph successful 12 races this play and his 5th successful a row, extending his commanding pb successful the satellite championship.

The mill Ducati rider bushed Marco Bezzecchi connected an Aprilia by astir 2 seconds connected Sunday portion Pedro Acosta connected a KTM came successful 3rd successful his archetypal podium decorativeness of the season.

Marquez had a 5th consecutive cleanable weekend, winning some the sprint connected Saturday and Sunday’s race.

The 32-year-old Spaniard present leads the satellite title with 381 points, 120 up of his younger brother, Alex, who crashed, and 168 up of Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia.

“It has been a ace archetypal portion of the play and particularly these past races,” Marc Marquez said.

“I consciousness amended and better, and I’m riding ace good,” helium added.

Marquez outpaces his rivals

Bagnaia started from rod connected a sunny Sunday astatine Brno but retained the pb lone until the 2nd thigh erstwhile Bezzecchi eased past him, and Marc Marquez followed suit soon afterwards.

Acosta did the aforesaid to settee down successful 3rd aft getting a boost from a third-place decorativeness successful Saturday’s sprint.

Marquez glided past Bezzecchi connected thigh 8 arsenic the runaway trio kept gathering up their pb and, arsenic truthful often this season, kept widening the spread comfortably.

The 3 stayed enactment until the decorativeness enactment though fourth-placed Bagnaia gave Acosta a hard time, pressing from behind.

“The archetypal thigh was unbelievable,” Bezzecchi said.

“I had truthful overmuch amusive successful the archetypal fractional of the race, but unfortunately, erstwhile Marc passed me, I instantly saw that helium had thing more.”

“I tried to attack, but helium was strong. Anyway, I made a fantastic performance. I’m very, precise happy,” the Italian added.

Reigning satellite champion Jorge Martin collected his archetypal points aft finishing seventh successful the archetypal contention helium has completed this year.

Martin sat retired the archetypal 3 races aft 2 preseason crashes, and erstwhile helium returned astatine Qatar successful April, helium crashed heavy again and missed the adjacent 7 events.

Brno returns faster than ever

Marc Marquez took 40 minutes 04.628 seconds to implicit the 21 laps connected the resurfaced 5.4km (3.4-mile) Brno circuit, which returned to the MotoGP calendar aft a five-year interruption owed to fiscal woes.

The enhanced on-track results of the Brno resurfacing were evident with thigh times this twelvemonth respective seconds nether the erstwhile thigh record.

Bezzecchi crossed the enactment 1.753 seconds adrift of Marquez, portion Acosta trailed the six-time MotoGP champion by 3.366 seconds.

Almost 220,000 fans were successful the stands for the play arsenic Marquez recorded his 4th MotoGP triumph astatine Brno aft victories successful 2013, 2017 and 2019.

Alex Marquez retired aft crashing connected thigh 2 to permission Brno without a constituent aft a disappointing 17th spot successful the sprint race.

He took retired Joan Mir, who besides walked distant from the gravel information area, conscionable similar Enea Bastianini a thigh later.

Japan’s Takaaki Nakagami was ruled retired of the contention aft suffering a genu wounded successful a clang successful Saturday’s sprint.

The MotoGP circus volition present instrumentality a interruption and resume with the Austrian GP connected August 15-17.

“Now it’s the summertime interruption but inactive 10 races to go. Time to relax, but successful Austria I [will] support the aforesaid mentality with the aforesaid intensity,” Marc Marquez said.

He is eyeing his seventh MotoGP satellite rubric – and archetypal since 2019 – which would enactment him level with Valentino Rossi and 1 down the legendary Giacomo Agostini.