{"id":145718,"date":"2025-09-15T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145718\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:04:12","slug":"marquez-centimetres-from-motogp-disaster-today-i-had-a-special-fire-inside-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145718\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e1rquez centimetres from MotoGP disaster: ‘Today I had a special fire inside me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Marino GP winner Marc M\u00e1rquez<\/a> will be crowned 2025 MotoGP champion next time out at Motegi<\/a>, so long as he outscores his younger brother Alex<\/a> by three points during the Japanese GP.<\/p>\n

The two brothers are now the only riders that can win the title. Even if Marc fails to score in all 12 remaining races and factory Ducati<\/a> team-mate Pecco Bagnaia<\/a> wins them all, Bagnaia still won\u2019t win the championship.<\/p>\n

A seventh MotoGP title will make Marc the fifth-oldest rider to wear the crown and still the youngest.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rquez\u2019s 11th grand prix success of the year followed a rare mistake in Saturday\u2019s sprint, when he crashed out soon after taking the lead from pole-starter Marco Bezzecchi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday I had a special fire inside me,\u201d he said after winning his 99th grand prix. \u201cAfter yesterday\u2019s mistake I tried to reply in the best way possible and the best reply was to try to win the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI fought against a very tough Marco Bezzecchi. He was pushing super-hard, we were both pushing more than usual. He had extra motivation because it\u2019s his home GP and I had extra motivation because of the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Marco<\/p>\n

Bezzecchi leads the M\u00e1rquez brothers<\/p>\n

\n Dorna\n <\/p>\n

M\u00e1rquez followed Bezzecchi for the first third of the race, staying right on the Aprilia<\/a>\u2019s rear wheel to put the Italian under maximum pressure.<\/p>\n

Finally Bezzecchi ran wide at the Turn 8 left-hander, which put M\u00e1rquez into the lead. The expectation was that the 32-year-old Spaniard would then make the race his own, but he didn\u2019t. Each time he upped his pace, Bezzecchi counter-attacked and on several occasions he looked ready to have a go at regaining the lead. But it wasn\u2019t to be. M\u00e1rquez took the chequered flag 0.568 seconds in front. This was his toughest victory of 2025, along with Assen<\/a>, where Bezzecchi also gave chase.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really tough race but also really beautiful,\u201d said Bezzecchi. \u201cI was on the limit and Marc was pushing a lot, so being able to stay there was fantastic. I thought I could bring home the win but Marc was super-fast and they [Ducati] still have something more, especially when the tyres go down, they can be smoother and quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bezzecchi\u2019s result once again proved the progress Aprilia has made this year, mostly in better controlling the tyre in the braking phase, allowing its riders to attack corners faster.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Ducati cannot move forward because its 2025 engine has a fundamental design flaw. After M\u00e1rquez, the next best GP25 rider at Misano was Fabio Di Giannantonio<\/a> in fifth, beaten by GP24 riders Alex M\u00e1rquez and Franky Morbidelli<\/a>, who were third and fourth.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rquez was pushing so hard that he made several mistakes which brought him within centimetres of disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brake points changed completely [once he was in front] and the wind was pushing in a different direction at Turns Eight, 11 and 12, so I touched the green three times at Turn 11,\u201d he explained. \u201cIf I touched the green again I\u2019d have had a long-lap penalty, so I was extra careful with the green. I slowed the pace, checked the brake points and re-attacked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt the pressure of Ducati this weekend and I felt the pressure of Davide Tardozzi [the factory Ducati team manager]. For the first time yesterday he said, \u2018Give everything,\u2019 and I crashed. Today he said, \u2018Okay, give everything but a bit less.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Luca Marini<\/a> came home in seventh, behind rookie Fermin Aldeguer<\/a>, for his third consecutive top-eight result, running around six-tenths off the winning pace. Honda<\/a> has introduced Aprilia-style seat side-wings, which improve stability.<\/p>\n

\"Chain<\/p>\n

Acosta\u2019s KTM ejects its broken chain<\/p>\n

\n Gold & Goose \/ Red Bull\n <\/p>\n

Pedro Acosta<\/a> was chasing a podium, moving up from seventh to fourth in three laps, when his KTM RC16 broke its chain. This was KTM\u2019s third chain breakage of the weekend and the Spanish youngster vented his anger by giving his bike the bird after he\u2019d parked it against a trackside wall. Ride-height devices drop the rear of the bike so far that they can slacken the chain, causing damage.<\/p>\n

Yamaha\u2019s all-new V4<\/a> had a promising first race weekend in the hands of test rider Augusto Fernandez<\/a>, who qualified 1.3 seconds off pole and rode a best race lap 1.4 seconds off the top.<\/p>\n

But if Yamaha engineers were happy with that, they weren\u2019t so happy when their number-one rider Fabio Quartararo<\/a> rode the bike in the Monday tests.<\/p>\n

\"Fabio<\/p>\n

Quartararo heads out to test Yamaha\u2019s all-new V4 at Misano<\/p>\n

\n Oxley\n <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment it\u2019s worse [than the inline-four],\u201d he said. \u201cIn Barcelona [where he first rode the bike last Monday] we felt some differences that for me were better but here we don\u2019t find any at the moment. I don\u2019t see any improvements in the areas we need to make them. But the team says there\u2019s margin, theoretically.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe engine isn\u2019t the issue, but I don\u2019t think the V4 [bike] will resolve our problems, because we still find the same problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurning is the inline-four\u2019s only strong point, but this is a bit worse with the V4 and we don\u2019t find any other positives, so we have to figure out what is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The V4\u2019s next race outing is at next month\u2019s Malaysian GP, with Fernandez on board once again. If the bike has shown no real improvement by then, Yamaha will be very, very worried\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Marino GP winner Marc M\u00e1rquez will be crowned 2025 MotoGP champion next time out at Motegi, so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[98655,64,63,17197,4280,96098,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-145718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-2025-motogp-san-marino-gp","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-marc-marquez","tag-misano","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}