Ducati’s Mark Marquez gained the highway within the Czech Grand Prix Dash and dodged a tire strain penalty following a post-race investigation by Fim Steward.
The championship chief got here from second to take the lead on the opening lap and was set to dominate the 10-lap dash at BRNO.
Nonetheless, on lap 6 he retreated and gave KTM’s Pedro Acosta the lead in an apparent try to extend the strain on his entrance tires.
Mark Marquez sat behind Acosta till the ultimate lap. He rushed by means of the within of KTM at flip 9 and escaped the sphere to checkered flag 0.798.
He confronted an investigation right into a tire strain breach. This might have dropped him 14th if convicted, however he was shortly exempt from fraud.
Acosta positioned second over Enea Bastianini’s Returning Tech3 KTM, finishing a double roster for Austrian producers.
Pecco Bagnaia suffered the identical destiny as Marc Marquez, however fell to seventh place with a checkered flag.
Polesitter transformed first place on the grid to gap pictures on the road, however succumbed to teammate Marc Marquez’s advances in flip 3.
By the beginning of the fourth lap, Marquez had already exempt his teammate Bagnaia from 0.5 seconds, thus growing his benefit over the subsequent two seconds or extra.
Nonetheless, a while after the fifth lap, Bagnaia slowly slid down, and Enea Bastianini and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartaralo allowed him earlier than him with an apparent bid to extend the strain on his earlier tire.
On lap 6, Mark Marquez did the identical, with Acosta taking the lead.
The pair swapped positions once more on the ultimate lap, with Marquez claiming their eleventh dash victory of the season. He at the moment holds a 95-point lead within the championship.
Acosta has grabbed the rostrum for his first dash since final yr. Bastianini took Marco Betzecchi, who had recovered, after an early contact with Quartaralo on Aprilia’s flip 10.
Quartarraro accomplished the highest 5, whereas Raul Fernandez piped Bagnaia on the sixth remaining lap at Truckhouse Aprilia.
Johann Zarco was eighth at LCR Honda, with Tech3 KTM Stand-In Pol Espargaro in ninth place to attain the ultimate factors.
Reigning world champion Jorge Martin was eleventh in his first dash since Qatar’s weekend.
Fabio di Giannantonio of VR46 Ducati crashed in six laps, whereas Takaak Nakagami and Yamaha Wildcard Augusto Fernandez of LCR Honda collided on lap 2.
Alex Marquez endured a passionate begin from the road from the eighth time and was concerned in early contact. So he was solely seventeenth within the end.
Yamaha’s Alex Lyns (18th) and truckhouse rookie I Ogura (sixteenth) have been additionally investigating tire strain violations however prevented sanctions.
Full 2025 MotoGP Czech Grand Prix Dash Outcomes
