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MotoGP Dutch GP: Marquez shrugs off Friday practice pain to take sprint win

Marc Marquez racked up yet another 2025 MotoGP sprint race win as he led home his brother Alex at Assen during the Dutch Grand Prix weekend on Saturday.

Pole position man Fabio Quartararo held onto the lead from the start, but was quickly demoted to fourth place and later crashed out of the race.

The French Yamaha rider was able to see off a strong challenge at the first corner from Marc, who had rocketed from fourth on the grid. The pair, whom many consider the finest two riders on the MotoGP grid, even touched on their way through the right-hander. 

Although Quartararo won the battle at Haarbocht, it quickly became clear that he wasn’t going to win the war against Ducati and the Marquez brothers.

Marc took the lead as the field entered the chicane at the end of the first lap, with Alex’s Gresini Ducati, which started third, following the factory bike past the M1 one corner later.

Quartararo’s misery was not yet complete: Marco Bezzecchi, who started fifth, slipped his Aprilia past at the chicane at the end of lap two.

Start action (Photo by: Gold and Goose Photography / LAT Images / via Getty Images)

Bezzecchi and Quartararo then proceeded to keep Marc and Alex in sight as a largely processional race unfolded at the front following the flurry of early moves.

But while British Grand Prix winner Bezzecchi was able to scoop a sprint medal for Aprilia, Quartararo went down at Mandeveen on lap 10.

Up at the front, there were times when Alex looked faster than Marc. He did not appear to give up hope of passing his brother at any point, and on one lap he very nearly showed him a front wheel at the ultra-fast Meeuwenmeer corner. 

But, as has been the case in every sprint this year bar Silverstone, Alex ultimately had no answer for Marc. This was despite the championship leader suffering two heavy falls on Friday and being in sub-optimal physical condition.

Marc's team-mate Francesco Bagnaia, who started second, faded from his position on the front row following an average start. He was stationed behind Quartararo on lap six, but that’s when he lost his position to Fabio di Giannantonio on the VR46 Ducati.

Di Giannantonio then held station to come home fourth ahead of Bagnaia. Sixth was Maverick Vinales (Tech3 KTM), with Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini) seventh following a long lap penalty for track limits.

Franco Morbidelli (VR46) was eighth, with Pedro Acosta picking up the final point in ninth. The Spanish KTM rider crossed the line ahead of Aldeguer and Morbidelli, but was demoted by a late time penalty for track limits infractions of his own. 

Marc Marquez now holds a 43-point lead over second-placed Alex in the championship ahead of Sunday's grand prix.

MotoGP Dutch 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 13

20'02.150

  176.8   12
2 Spain A. Marquez Gresini Racing 73 Ducati 13

+0.351

20'02.501

0.351 176.7   9
3 Italy M. Bezzecchi Aprilia Racing Team 72 Aprilia 13

+1.247

20'03.397

0.896 176.6   7
4 Italy F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46 49 Ducati 13

+2.269

20'04.419

1.022 176.4   6
5 Italy F. Bagnaia Ducati Team 63 Ducati 13

+2.686

20'04.836

0.417 176.4   5
6 Spain M. Viñales Tech 3 12 KTM 13

+4.074

20'06.224

1.388 176.2   4
7 Spain F. Aldeguer Gresini Racing 54 Ducati 13

+9.064

20'11.214

4.990 175.4   3
8 Italy F. Morbidelli Team VR46 21 Ducati 13

+9.159

20'11.309

0.095 175.4   2
9 Spain P. Acosta Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 37 KTM 13

+11.069

20'13.219

1.910 175.6   1
10 South Africa B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 33 KTM 13

+11.143

20'13.293

0.074 175.1    
11 France J. Zarco Team LCR 5 Honda 13

+11.327

20'13.477

0.184 175.1    
12 Portugal M. Oliveira Pramac Racing 88 Yamaha 13

+12.147

20'14.297

0.820 175.0    
13 Italy E. Bastianini Tech 3 23 KTM 13

+15.290

20'17.440

3.143 174.6    
14 Australia J. Miller Pramac Racing 43 Yamaha 13

+15.899

20'18.049

0.609 174.5    
15 Spain A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing 42 Yamaha 13

+15.990

20'18.140

0.091 174.5    
16 Italy L. Savadori Aprilia Racing Team 32 Aprilia 13

+16.707

20'18.857

0.717 174.3    
17 Japan A. Ogura Trackhouse Racing Team 79 Aprilia 13

+17.554

20'19.704

0.847 174.2    
18 Spain A. Espargaro Honda HRC 41 Honda 13

+27.287

20'29.437

9.733 172.8    
19 Thailand S. Chantra Team LCR 35 Honda 13

+32.441

20'34.591

5.154 172.1    
dnf France F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing 20 Yamaha 9

+4 Laps

13'54.806

4 Laps 176.2 Accident  
dnf Spain R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team 25 Aprilia 1

+12 Laps

2'04.551

8 Laps 131.2 Retirement  
dnf Spain J. Mir Honda HRC 36 Honda 0

13 laps

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