{"id":9184,"date":"2025-07-20T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9184\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:02:11","slug":"marc-marquez-wins-czech-motogp-in-brno-extends-championship-lead-motorsports-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9184\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez wins Czech MotoGP in Brno, extends championship lead | Motorsports News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six-time MotoGP world champ continues his supreme 2025 season, becoming first Ducati rider to win five consecutive GPs.<\/p>\n

Marc Marquez has won the Czech MotoGP for his eighth victory in 12 races this season and his fifth in a row, extending his commanding lead in the world championship.<\/p>\n

The factory Ducati rider beat Marco Bezzecchi on an Aprilia by almost two seconds on Sunday while Pedro Acosta on a KTM came in third in his first podium finish of the season.<\/p>\n

Marquez had a fifth straight perfect weekend, winning both the sprint on Saturday and Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Spaniard now leads the world championship with 381 points, 120 ahead of his younger brother, Alex, who crashed, and 168 ahead of Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a super first part of the season and especially these last races,\u201d Marc Marquez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel better and better, and I\u2019m riding super good,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"MarcoAprilia Racing\u2019s Marco Bezzecchi leads Marc Marquez, #93, in the opening laps of the Czech MotoGP [Michal Cizek\/AFP]
\nMarquez outpaces his rivals<\/p>\n

Bagnaia started from pole on a sunny Sunday at Brno but retained the lead only until the second lap when Bezzecchi eased past him, and Marc Marquez followed suit soon afterwards.<\/p>\n

Acosta did the same to settle down in third after getting a boost from a third-place finish in Saturday\u2019s sprint.<\/p>\n

Marquez glided past Bezzecchi on lap eight as the runaway trio kept building up their lead and, as so often this season, kept widening the gap comfortably.<\/p>\n

The three stayed put until the finish line although fourth-placed Bagnaia gave Acosta a hard time, pressing from behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first lap was unbelievable,\u201d Bezzecchi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had so much fun in the first half of the race, but unfortunately, when Marc passed me, I immediately saw that he had something more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to attack, but he was strong. Anyway, I made a fantastic performance. I\u2019m very, very happy,\u201d the Italian added.<\/p>\n

Reigning world champion Jorge Martin collected his first points after finishing seventh in the first race he has completed this year.<\/p>\n

Martin sat out the first three races after two preseason crashes, and when he returned at Qatar in April, he crashed heavily again and missed the next seven events.<\/p>\n

\"MarcMarc Marquez won his fifth race in a row at the Czech MotoGP [Michal Cizek\/AFP]
\nBrno returns faster than ever<\/p>\n

Marc Marquez took 40 minutes 04.628 seconds to complete the 21 laps on the resurfaced 5.4km (3.4-mile) Brno circuit, which returned to the MotoGP calendar after a five-year break due to financial woes.<\/p>\n

The enhanced on-track results of the Brno resurfacing were evident with lap times this year several seconds under the previous lap record.<\/p>\n

Bezzecchi crossed the line 1.753 seconds adrift of Marquez, while Acosta trailed the six-time MotoGP champion by 3.366 seconds.<\/p>\n

Almost 220,000 fans were in the stands for the weekend as Marquez recorded his fourth MotoGP win at Brno after victories in 2013, 2017 and 2019.<\/p>\n

Alex Marquez retired after crashing on lap two to leave Brno without a point after a disappointing 17th spot in the sprint race.<\/p>\n

He took out Joan Mir, who also walked away from the gravel safety area, just like Enea Bastianini a lap later.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Takaaki Nakagami was ruled out of the race after suffering a knee injury in a crash in Saturday\u2019s sprint.<\/p>\n

The MotoGP circus will now take a break and resume with the Austrian GP on August 15-17.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s the summer break but still 10 races to go. Time to relax, but in Austria I [will] keep the same mentality with the same intensity,\u201d Marc Marquez said.<\/p>\n

He is eyeing his seventh MotoGP world title \u2013 and first since 2019 \u2013 which would put him level with Valentino Rossi and one behind the legendary Giacomo Agostini.<\/p>\n

\"MarcMarc Marquez celebrates with an eight sign after winning the Czech MotoGP race, his eighth victory this season [Michal Cizek\/AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-time MotoGP world champ continues his supreme 2025 season, becoming first Ducati rider to win five consecutive GPs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,586,2057,806,805,3152,803,804,44,588,85],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-czech-republic","tag-europe","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\/9184","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=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}