{"id":914377,"date":"2026-10-03T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914377\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:58:10","slug":"cycling-motorcycling-marquez-wins-japanese-gp-sprint-to-close-in-on-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914377\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling: Motorcycling-Marquez wins Japanese GP sprint to close in on Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Ducati&#8217;s Marc Marquez won \u2060the Japanese Grand Prix \u200csprint on Saturday to inch closer to MotoGP championship leader Jorge \u200bMartin of Aprilia in \u2060the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez \u2060made a scorching start and \u2060held the \u200cinside line on the first \u2060turn of the opening lap to \u200bsurge \u200cpast Martin, who had \u2060set a \u200blap record at the Motegi circuit to grab \u2060pole position during qualifying \u200bearlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champion Marquez maintained the lead and coasted \u2060to victory, moving him to 306 points &#8211; seven behind Martin, who was demoted \u200bto third place \u2060behind LCR Honda&#8217;s Diogo \u200bMoreira for exceeding \u200ctrack limits. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by \u200bAadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Ducati&#8217;s Marc Marquez won \u2060the Japanese Grand Prix \u200csprint on Saturday to inch closer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,6675,85],"class_list":["post-914377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914377","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=914377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}