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MotoGP Spanish GP: Marc Marquez takes sprint win as Quartararo crashes

Marc Marquez shrugged off a brief challenge from Fabio Quartararo as he took a fifth straight 2025 sprint race victory aboard the factory Ducati.

Although Quartararo was able to convert his surprise pole position into a brief lead, he fell when Marquez overtook him halfway around the second lap.

That was the end of any challenge to the Ducati dominance, as the Bologna bikes swept the top six in the best possible result, given its six representatives on the grid.

With Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) second and Francesco Bagnaia third on the second factory bike, the sprint top three simply cemented their respective positions in the championship. Marc now leads Alex by 20 points.

What little entertainment the sprint offered came in the first lap and a half. Quartararo looked to have lost the lead as Marc Marquez enjoyed the better initial getaway, but the Frenchman struck back on the entry to the first corner and was able to establish himself in the lead for the first lap.

But Marquez was already close to the Yamaha heading into the first corner of lap two. The factory Ducati pulled out of the slipstream halfway around the same lap and outbraked Quartararo on the inside as the pair approached the hairpin at Pedrosa.

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, Marc Marquez, Ducati Team (Photo by: Javier Soriano - AFP - Getty Images)

Quartararo tried to stay with Marquez on the outside line, but could not get the M1 to turn in whilst asking so much of it. While he found himself on the floor and out of the race, Marquez was gifted a handy lead over his brother Alex.

That’s how it would stay for the remaining 10 laps of the race around the one-line Andalusian circuit, with Alex failing to mount any serious challenge to Marc. Bagnaia, for his part, could not threaten Alex, and had to settle for third – which was at least a significant improvement on his sprint outing last time out in Qatar.

Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati) was briefly ahead of Bagnaia on the first lap, but couldn’t make that move stick and he spent the rest of the race behind his fellow Italian.

Next up in the Ducati train was Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini), who withstood some early pressure from Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46) before making fifth place his own ahead of the Rimini man.

Maverick Vinales was behind di Giannantonio all race long, and the Tech3 KTM man’s seventh place made him the best of the non-Ducatis.

The last two points-paying positions went to Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi and Honda’s Joan Mir.

Cruelly, it meant that the pole-winning manufacturer, Yamaha, was the only one to come away from the sprint without a point in the riders’ championship.

MotoGP Spanish GP - 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

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      12
2 Spain A. Marquez Gresini Racing 73 Ducati 12

+1.001

1.001

1.001     9
3 Italy F. Bagnaia Ducati Team 63 Ducati 12

+3.077

3.077

2.076     7
4 Italy F. Morbidelli Team VR46 21 Ducati 12

+3.530

3.530

0.453     6
5 Spain F. Aldeguer Gresini Racing 54 Ducati 12

+5.791

5.791

2.261     5
6 Italy F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46 49 Ducati 12

+7.691

7.691

1.900     4
7 Spain M. Viñales Tech 3 12 KTM 12

+7.849

7.849

0.158     3
8 Italy M. Bezzecchi Aprilia Racing Team 72 Aprilia 12

+10.175

10.175

2.326     2
9 Spain J. Mir Honda HRC 36 Honda 12

+10.414

10.414

0.239     1
10 Spain P. Acosta Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 37 KTM 12

+12.673

12.673

2.259      
11 South Africa B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 33 KTM 12

+13.204

13.204

0.531      
12 Japan A. Ogura Trackhouse Racing Team 79 Aprilia 12

+13.438

13.438

0.234      
13 Italy L. Marini Honda HRC 10 Honda 12

+16.572

16.572

3.134      
14 Italy E. Bastianini Tech 3 23 KTM 12

+17.918

17.918

1.346      
15 Spain A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing 42 Yamaha 12

+19.963

19.963

2.045      
16 Spain R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team 25 Aprilia 12

+21.690

21.690

1.727      
17 Spain A. Fernandez Pramac Racing 7 Yamaha 12

+21.932

21.932

0.242      
18 Spain A. Espargaro Honda HRC Test Team 41 Honda 12

+22.515

22.515

0.583      
19 Italy L. Savadori Aprilia Racing Team 32 Aprilia 12

+30.200

30.200

7.685      
20 Thailand S. Chantra Team LCR 35 Honda 12

+30.968

30.968

0.768      
dnf France J. Zarco Team LCR 5 Honda 5

7 laps

    Accident  
dnf Australia J. Miller Pramac Racing 43 Yamaha 4

8 laps

    Accident  
dnf France F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing 20 Yamaha 1

11 laps

    Accident  
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Richard Asher
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