Marc Marquez extends win streak to six with maiden Austrian MotoGP victory

Marquez continues his dominance of the 2025 play with a archetypal Austrian GP crown arsenic helium closes successful connected the riders title.

Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has marked the 1,000th premier people contention successful past by winning the Austrian Grand Prix for the archetypal clip successful his vocation to instrumentality a mammoth 142-point pb implicit his member Alex successful the championship.

Having won Saturday’s sprint from the 2nd row, Marquez claimed the sprint-race treble connected Sunday for the sixth Grand Prix successful a row. The Spaniard has been unbeaten since the British Grand Prix successful May.

Not since 2014 had Marquez claimed six consecutive Grand Prix wins arsenic helium moves person to a seventh MotoGP crown with 9 rounds remaining successful the 2025 season.

Gresini Racing rookie Fermin Aldeguer recovered precocious contention gait to decorativeness 2nd portion Aprilia’s rod sitter Marco Bezzecchi, who kept Marquez astatine bay for arsenic agelong arsenic helium could, finished third. Alex Marquez finished 10th aft serving a long-lap penalty.

“Super, ace blessed to yet instrumentality the archetypal triumph present successful Austria,” Marc Marquez said.

“I’m blessed with six victories successful a row, but [I request to] support focus. Next week, we person different race.”

Bezzecchi had claimed his archetypal rod with Aprilia connected Saturday, and contempt finishing 4th successful the sprint, this clip helium had the cleanable motorboat to pb Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez into crook one.

The 2 Ducatis went broadside by broadside connected thigh 1 erstwhile Marc Marquez concisely overtook his teammate, but Bagnaia did not relent and took the spot backmost to enactment successful second.

However, Marc Marquez made the aforesaid determination connected the adjacent thigh to instrumentality 2nd and acceptable his sights connected Bezzecchi, waiting for the close accidental to pounce.

“In the archetypal portion helium [Bezzecchi] was ace strong, but past I conscionable waited. I tried successful the beginning, but it was excessively risky. Then I preferred to hold and onslaught successful the end,” the victor added.

Alex Marquez had a mediocre start, and with a long-lap punishment to service for causing a clang astatine the Czech Grand Prix, the younger Marquez sibling fell retired of the apical 10 erstwhile helium rejoined the field.

Ducati Lenovo rider Marc Marquez, right, leads Aprilia Racing’s Marco Bezzecchi during the Austrian MotoGP [Jure Makovec/AFP]

Marquez pressure

Bezzecchi soaked up the pressure, but the Aprilia rider was incapable to shingle disconnected the reddish Ducati hunting him down.

Bagnaia was struggling with his bike, and helium yet faded, giving mode to KTM’s Pedro Acosta and Aldeguer arsenic the 2 youngsters fought for third.

Bagnaia had been undefeated successful Austria for 3 years, but helium was a shadiness of the ringmaster who had dominated astatine the Red Bull Ring since 2022 arsenic helium was bumped down to eighth.

Marquez yet attacked connected thigh 19 and squeezed past the Aprilia, but Bezzecchi enactment his caput down and took archetypal spot backmost from the Spaniard, anxious to contradict him a archetypal triumph astatine the Red Bull Ring.

But Marquez was connected the ascendancy, and helium yet broke Bezzecchi’s absorption connected the adjacent lap, utilizing the Aprilia’s slipstream to dive into crook 1 and instrumentality the lead.

As Bezzecchi made a futile effort to reel Marquez in, Aldeguer made a play for 2nd place, and the Gresini rookie made his determination with 5 laps to spell connected crook 1 to slot successful down Marquez.

Marquez responded to the situation and kept Aldeguer astatine bay to instrumentality the chequered flag, but the rookie was implicit the satellite with his champion effect successful MotoGP.

“I’m ace blessed due to the fact that astatine the end, Austria is not 1 of my favourite tracks similar Le Mans,” helium said. “Making 2 podiums connected atrocious tracks for maine is incredible.”

The 14th circular of the MotoGP satellite title volition beryllium held astatine Balaton Park successful Hungary adjacent weekend.

Marc Marquez celebrates aft winning the Austrian MotoGP for the archetypal clip [Gintare Karpaviciute/Reuters]