{"id":795848,"date":"2026-07-12T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:01:11","slug":"marc-marquez-dominates-german-motogp-to-close-in-on-championship-lead-motorsports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795848\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez dominates German MotoGP to close in on championship lead | Motorsports News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Reigning champion won his 10th German Grand Prix and moves to within 18 points of the riders\u2019 championship lead.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 12 Jul 202612 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>Marc Marquez won the German MotoGP Grand Prix on Sunday as the Spaniard equalled Italian legend Giacomo Agostini\u2019s record of 10 premier class wins on a single circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time MotoGP world champion started on pole as he glided to a dominant win at the Sachsenring, 1.996 seconds ahead of Aprilia-Trackhouse\u2019s Ai Ogura in second with the Japanese rider\u2019s Spanish teammate Raul Fernandez completing the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Marquez, on his Ducati, also won Saturday\u2019s sprint race to further cement his reputation as the \u2018King of the Ring\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(I\u2019m) super, super happy. You know, it was a special weekend,\u201d the 33-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was super concentrated because\u2026 if I want to have any chance to win the championship, I need to attack here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s what we did these last races. And yes, super happy to achieve 10 victories in MotoGP class here in the Sachsenring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marquez has reignited his title challenge just before the summer break and is now firmly in contention to retain his crown, having closed the gap to 18 points behind his compatriot Jorge Martin, who finished fifth on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In the early exchanges, the Catalan was locked in somewhat of a battle with his brother Alex Marquez, who started in second place, until the Ducati-Gresini rider slid off his bike after 10 laps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4763740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AFP__20260712__B9Y977C__v1__HighRes__MotoPrixGerMotogp-1783863697.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Marquez in action.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Marc Marquez, front, leads his brother Alex Marquez during the German MotoGP [Ronny Hartmann\/AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning champion won his 10th German Grand Prix and moves to within 18 points of the riders\u2019 championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,2057,5717,806,805,3152,803,804,44,588,85],"class_list":["post-795848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795848","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=795848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}