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MotoGP Dutch GP: Marc Marquez beats brother to latest sprint success
Marc shrugs off pain, his brother and Fabio Quartararo to score his latest sprint victory
Richard Asher
Edited: Jun 28, 2025, 2:17 PM
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Marc Marquez racked up yet another 2025 MotoGP sprint race win as he led home his brother Alex at the Dutch Grand Prix at Assen on Saturday.
Pole position rider Fabio Quartararo held onto the lead from the start, but was quickly demoted to fourth place and later crashed out of the race.
The 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 current MotoGP grid, even touched on their way through the right-hander.
Quartararo won the battle at the first corner 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 lap, with Alex’s Gresini Ducati following the factory bike past the M1 one corner later.
Quartararo’s misery was not yet complete: Marco Bezzecchi slipped his Aprilia past at the chicane at the end of the second lap.
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.
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, Marc Marquez, Ducati Team
Photo by: Gold and Goose Photography / LAT Images / via Getty Images
But while British GP winner Bezzecchi was able to scoop a sprint medal for Aprilia, Quartararo went down at Turn 10, 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 Turn 12 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 Marquez having suffered two heavy falls on Friday and being in sub-optimal physical condition.
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Francesco Bagnaia 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 M. Marquez Ducati Team 93
Ducati 13
20'02.150
176.8 12 2 A. Marquez Gresini Racing 73
Ducati 13
+0.351
20'02.501
0.351 176.7 9 3 M. Bezzecchi Aprilia Racing Team 72
Aprilia 13
+1.247
20'03.397
0.896 176.6 7 4 F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46 49
Ducati 13
+2.269
20'04.419
1.022 176.4 6 5 F. Bagnaia Ducati Team 63
Ducati 13
+2.686
20'04.836
0.417 176.4 5 6 M. Viñales Tech 3 12
KTM 13
+4.074
20'06.224
1.388 176.2 4 7 F. Aldeguer Gresini Racing 54
Ducati 13
+9.064
20'11.214
4.990 175.4 3 8 F. Morbidelli Team VR46 21
Ducati 13
+9.159
20'11.309
0.095 175.4 2 9 P. Acosta Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 37
KTM 13
+11.069
20'13.219
1.910 175.6 1 10 B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing 33
KTM 13
+11.143
20'13.293
0.074 175.1 11 J. Zarco Team LCR 5
Honda 13
+11.327
20'13.477
0.184 175.1 12 M. Oliveira Pramac Racing 88
Yamaha 13
+12.147
20'14.297
0.820 175.0 13 E. Bastianini Tech 3 23
KTM 13
+15.290
20'17.440
3.143 174.6 14 J. Miller Pramac Racing 43
Yamaha 13
+15.899
20'18.049
0.609 174.5 15 A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing 42
Yamaha 13
+15.990
20'18.140
0.091 174.5 16 L. Savadori Aprilia Racing Team 32
Aprilia 13
+16.707
20'18.857
0.717 174.3 17 A. Ogura Trackhouse Racing Team 79
Aprilia 13
+17.554
20'19.704
0.847 174.2 18 A. Espargaro Honda HRC 41
Honda 13
+27.287
20'29.437
9.733 172.8 19 S. Chantra Team LCR 35
Honda 13
+32.441
20'34.591
5.154 172.1 dnf F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing 20
Yamaha 9
+4 Laps
13'54.806
4 Laps 176.2 Accident dnf R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team 25
Aprilia 1
+12 Laps
2'04.551
8 Laps 131.2 Retirement dnf J. Mir Honda HRC 36
Honda 0
13 laps
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