MotoGP: Marc Marquez wins Italian GP for Ducati at Mugello

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Six-time MotoGP satellite champ bushed member Alex and Fabio Di Giannantonio to expanse podium for section shaper Ducati.

Published On 22 Jun 2025

Ducati’s Marc Marquez won the Italian Grand Prix aft a dogfight for podium places astatine the Mugello Circuit, taking the chequered emblem up of his member Alex to support his robust grip connected the MotoGP riders’ championship.

Gresini Racing’s Alex Marquez concisely led the contention aboriginal connected Sunday earlier Marc took control, portion Fabio Di Giannantonio of VR46 Racing claimed 3rd spot aft snatching the last podium spot from his Italian compatriot Francesco Bagnaia.

Home favourite Bagnaia besides led the contention successful the archetypal stages, but the mill Ducati rider, who had won the past 3 races astatine Mugello, was overshadowed by the Marquez brothers and could lone decorativeness 4th successful beforehand of his location fans.

Marc Marquez’s triumph was besides the 93rd triumph of his vocation crossed each classes, matching his motorcycle number, and the Spaniard celebrated by planting a Ducati emblem successful beforehand of the location fans who erstwhile saw him arsenic a rival erstwhile helium was with Honda.

“Amazing feeling … 3 Ducatis connected the podium, to triumph present [at Mugello] successful the red,” said Marc, who present leads Alex by 40 points portion Bagnaia is 110 points backmost successful third.

“I already understood this greeting that was ace peculiar for them, adjacent for me, due to the fact that I consciousness portion of them. Super happy.

“We managed the contention … I was calm and past erstwhile the tyres dropped a bit, I started to springiness everything. Happy to instrumentality the 37 points successful this astonishing weekend.”

Fresh from claiming his historical 100th vocation rod with a blistering thigh grounds and Saturday’s improbable sprint victory, Marc recovered himself locked successful a fraternal conflict with Alex – a moving taxable this season.

The opening laps unfolded arsenic a masterclass successful close-quarter racing betwixt the 2 mill Ducati machines – their peculiar Italian Renaissance livery flashing done Mugello’s sweeping turns – portion Alex stayed connected their tails.

Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez successful action.

Bagnaia denied triumph astatine location race

The assemblage erupted erstwhile Bagnaia concisely snatched the pb from Marc aft crook one, but what followed was high-speed play arsenic they traded positions, occasionally making heart-stopping interaction with each other.

Disaster astir struck erstwhile Bagnaia, pushing his motorcycle to the limit, touched Marc’s rear tyre arsenic helium was forced to brake hard and surrender his presumption to Alex.

Fans successful the grandstand witnessed a spectacular infinitesimal erstwhile each 3 riders thundered into crook 1 abreast, a three-wide gamble that saw Alex concisely prehend control, driblet to 3rd connected the brakes and past reclaim the pb moments aboriginal connected the exit.

But Marc yet broke free, leaving member Alex to doggedly support 2nd presumption against a relentless Bagnaia.

However, the Italian did not person the late-race gait to drawback up, and helium was soon forced to support the last podium place, with Di Giannantonio looking to upstage his compatriot.

With 2 laps to go, Di Giannantonio made his determination connected crook 7 arsenic helium squeezed past the two-time champion and raced distant to assertion his archetypal podium decorativeness astatine Mugello.

“I knew that I had to hazard a batch to instrumentality him, but astatine the end, the past lap, I said, ‘OK, let’s spell for it,’ and we’ve done it,” Di Giannantonio said.

“My archetypal podium successful MotoGP Mugello, successful beforehand of this fantastic radical of fans.”