{"id":6302,"date":"2025-07-19T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6302\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:34:06","slug":"marc-marquez-wins-sprint-despite-tyre-pressure-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6302\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez wins sprint despite tyre pressure issues \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/marc-marquez\/829758\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marc Marquez<\/a> recovered from tyre pressure problems to win the sprint race at MotoGP\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/location\/brno\/27793\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Czech Grand Prix<\/a>, ahead of KTM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/pedro-acosta\/875346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pedro Acosta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/francesco-bagnaia\/841494\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Francesco Bagnaia<\/a> started on pole and got away well, leading on the run down to the first corner. But Marquez wasn&#8217;t waiting around, and the Spaniard took the lead coming into Turn 3 in a neat and decisive move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the early stages, Marquez was the fastest rider on track as he aimed to break Bagnaia&#8217;s spirit. Bagnaia then dropped back from second on lap five, deliberately letting Acosta past due to tyre pressure issues. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Italian, he also lost out to both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/enea-bastianini\/841467\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Enea Bastianini<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/fabio-quartararo\/841449\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fabio Quartararo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marquez looked set for an easy victory with more than a three-second lead, but also backed off to let Acosta past to ensure he wasn&#8217;t below the minimum tyre pressure. However, with a lap and a half to go, the championship leader slotted past Acosta and took his 11th sprint win of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/marc-marquez-ducati-team.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Marquez, Ducati Team\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Marc Marquez, Ducati Team<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Gold and Goose Photography \/ LAT Images \/ via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Acosta took second, marking his first sprint race podium of the year, while Bastianini pulled off his most convincing KTM performance yet to complete the podium. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/marco-bezzecchi\/841477\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> revelled in the pace of his Aprilia, being the fastest bike at the end of the race and securing fourth place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quartararo could only manage fifth on his Yamaha, while sixth place fell to Raul Fernandez, who had a spirited battle with Bezzecchi but ultimately lost out. Seventh was Bagnaia, who continued to fall through the field following his tyre pressure problems and lost sixth at the last corner on the final lap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eighth was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/johann-zarco\/829807\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Johann Zarco<\/a> on the LCR Honda, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/pol-espargaro\/829596\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pol Espargaro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/brad-binder\/841459\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brad Binder<\/a> rounding out the top 10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/jorge-martin\/841443\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jorge Martin<\/a> delivered a great drive to finish 11th on his sprint race return to the MotoGP paddock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The retirement list comprised of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/augusto-fernandez\/841532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Augusto Fernandez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/takaaki-nakagami\/829920\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Takaaki Nakagami<\/a>. The Yamaha rider got his braking wrong into Turn 3 and took the Japanese rider out of the running.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/fabio-di-giannantonio\/863361\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fabio Di Giannantonio<\/a> also went down and retired from the race. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MotoGP Czech GP &#8211; Sprint results<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez recovered from tyre pressure problems to win the sprint race at MotoGP\u2019s Czech Grand Prix, ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,5747,5746,5745,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brno-circuit","tag-czech-gp","tag-motogp","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","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=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}