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MotoGP Argentina GP: Marc Marquez continues perfect start to 2025 with sprint win

Marc Marquez took a lights-to-flag victory in the Argentina Grand Prix sprint race, maintaining his unbeaten record thus far in 2025.

The six-time world champion crossed the line 0.903s ahead of younger brother Alex Marquez, while Marc Marquez’s factory Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia completed the podium.

It is the same 1-2-3 of every race in the 2025 MotoGP season thus far and Marc Marquez leads the championship by 11 points ahead of Sunday’s grand prix at the campaign’s second weekend. 

The race at Termas de Rio Hondo began in moderate temperatures, with teams trying to second-guess the weather as a fine drizzle fell minutes before the start. 

But fears of a downpour had come to nought by the time the lights turned green, at which point pole man Marc Marquez leapt into the lead after a fine getaway.

Alex Marquez also started well and slotted into an early second on the Gresini Ducati. Johann Zarco, however, had a poor getaway from the outside of the front row and dropped to sixth behind Bagnaia as well as Pedro Acosta and Fabio Quartararo.

Alex Marquez, Gresini Racing, Marc Marquez, Ducati Team, Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Team (Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images)

Despite Marc Marquez threatening to disappear as he built a lead over the first few corners, Alex quickly found a rhythm and settled in close behind the factory Ducati. 

He remained within half a second of Marc for most of the race, raising hopes of a battle developing. But, with three laps remaining, the championship leader pulled the plug and stretched his advantage to nearly a second to put the result beyond doubt.

Bagnaia had established himself in his lonely third position by mid-race, by which point Zarco had worked his way back up to fourth after passing Quartararo and Acosta, both of whom quickly ran out of pace.

Bagnaia was too far up the road for the Frenchman to think about catching him to take a morale-boosting podium for Honda.

Zarco did, however, pull away from an intense battle for fifth, which featured several bikes early in the race but was ultimately a three-way fight won by Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46), who defeated Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) and Francesco Morbidello (VR46 Ducati). 

Joan Mir aboard the factory Honda claimed eighth, while Acosta grabbed the last available point. 

Quartararo rounded out the top 10, while notable retirements included Brad Binder (KTM) and Miguel Oliveira (Pramac Yamaha) following an incident with Gresini’s Fermin Aldeguer.

MotoGP's Argentina Grand Prix sprint race results

   
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Cla Rider # Bike Laps Time Interval km/h Retirement Points
1 Spain M. Marquez Ducati Team 93 Ducati 12

-

      12
2 Spain A. Marquez Gresini Racing 73 Ducati 12

+0.903

0.903

0.903     9
3 Italy F. Bagnaia Ducati Team 63 Ducati 12

+3.859

3.859

2.956     7
4 France J. Zarco Team LCR 5 Honda 12

+5.026

5.026

1.167     6
5 Italy F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46 49 Ducati 12

+6.451

6.451

1.425     5
6 Italy M. Bezzecchi Aprilia Racing Team 72 Aprilia 12

+7.333

7.333

0.882     4
7 Italy F. Morbidelli Team VR46 21 Ducati 12

+8.368

8.368

1.035     3
8 Spain J. Mir Honda HRC 36 Honda 12

+10.858

10.858

2.490     2
9 Spain P. Acosta Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 37 KTM 12

+11.229

11.229

0.371     1
10 France F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing 20 Yamaha 12

+12.356

12.356

1.127      
11 Australia J. Miller Pramac Racing 43 Yamaha 12

+15.201

15.201

2.845      
12 Spain A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing 42 Yamaha 12

+15.298

15.298

0.097      
13 Italy L. Marini Honda HRC 10 Honda 12

+16.653

16.653

1.355      
14 Italy E. Bastianini Tech 3 23 KTM 12

+18.442

18.442

1.789      
15 Japan A. Ogura Trackhouse Racing Team 79 Aprilia 12

+18.618

18.618

0.176      
16 Spain R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team 25 Aprilia 12

+19.560

19.560

0.942      
17 Thailand S. Chantra Team LCR 35 Honda 12

+20.925

20.925

1.365      
18 Spain M. Viñales Tech 3 12 KTM 12

+21.287

21.287

0.362      
19 Spain F. Aldeguer Gresini Racing 54 Ducati 12

+45.325

45.325

24.038      
dnf Italy L. Savadori Aprilia Racing Team 32 Aprilia 6

6 laps

    Retirement  
dnf Portugal M. Oliveira Pramac Racing 88 Yamaha 4

8 laps

    Retirement  
dnf South Africa B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 33 KTM 0

12 laps

    Retirement  
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Richard Asher
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