Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Marc Marquez, 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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2025 Thai MotoGP, Buriram: Race as it happened

Recap the race at the season-opening 2025 Thai MotoGP round at Buriram.

Th🌸e 2025 Thai MotoGP is set to get underway at 15:00 local time. 

Marc Marquez starts 🦩from pole position, which he converted to victory in yesterday's Sprint.

Ale🤪x Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia start alongside him on the front row.

10:26
Casey Stoner record has fallen

READ HERE  - Ominous Casey Stoner 18-year record matched at 2025 Thailand MotoGP

Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner
10:07
Marc Marquez explains problem

READ HERE - Marc Marquez explains problem in Thai MotoGP - three laps from “disaster"

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Thai MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Thai MotoGP
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09:50
09:41
09:32
Report from Buriram

READ HERE - 2025 Thai MotoGP: Marc Marquez overcomes early scare to win opening round

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Thai MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Thai MotoGP
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09:22

Pecco Bagnඣaia just admitted: "Marc was🌟 playing with us today..."

09:22

Marc Marquez opted not to clཧarify the rou💟te of his brief problem, afterwards in parc ferme.

08:59
Casey Stoner comparison

Marc Marquez is the first facౠtory Ducati debutant to win a grand pr𒈔ix since Casey Stoner.

Stoner didꩲ it in the year that he won a championship with Ducati.

08:59

World feed commentary saying that 🐽Marco Rigamonti has confirmꦬed Marquez slowing on lap seven was about front tyre pressure.

08:59
Ominous?

Marc Marquez has been brilliant at the first round of tꦏhe season.

Many more wins to come?

Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher
08:43

It's a repeat top five in the GP from the Sprint☂, with M. Marquez 🍰ahead of A. Marquez, Bagnaia, Morbidelli, and Ogura.

Bezzecchi takes 6th, ahead of Zarco, Binder, Bastianini, and Di Gꦛiannantonio who complete the top 10.

08:41
Marc Marquez wins the Thai Grand Prix

It's victory for Marc Marquez in Thailand. He wins in ౠBuriram comfortably ahead of his brother, Alex Marquez, who hangs onto second൲ ahead of Bagnaia in third.

Far from a classic, but that won't matter to the 8x champ, who is 🌺now only one GP win shy of Angel Nieto on the all-time list.

08:40
Lap 25/26

1.5s lead for Marc Marque𝔉z with one lap to go, and half-a-second between second and third.

08:39
Lap 24/26

Marc has cleared off within a💖 lap, 0.9s clear as we go to 2 to go.

Alex M⭕arquez has 0.5s back to Bagnaia, but every time the Italian gets closer he dro♒ps back again.

08:37
Lap 23/26

Three to go now, and finally Marc makes his move back to tဣ☂he front at the final corner.

08:36
Lap 22/26

Alex Marquez really struggling for grip now, it seems, and it's bringing Bagna🍒ia back into it. 0.5s away n𒁃ow.

08:35
Lap 21/26

Five laps to go and a slide from Alex Marquez out of turn 11 shows perfectly what Marc Marquez is doing. If he wanted to pass, he could'v🔯e then♐, but instead he rolled the throttle.

08:33
Lap 20/26

Still 73 from 93 at the front. Bagnaia continues to yoyo between 0.6s and 0.8s behind h🌄is teammate. Possibly also a tyre pressure/temperature thing.

08:31
Lap 19/26

No change𝐆 at the front, but Morbidelli affirmatively falling away now. 1.4s is now the gap ahead of him to Bagnaia.

08:30
Lap 18/26

Still Alex Marquez leads by essentially nothing f꧑rom Marc Marquez. Bagnaia just𝔍 floating between 0.6s and 0.8s adrift of his teammate, and now almost a second between the Italian and his compatriot, Morbidelli.

08:28
Bezzecchi to 6th

Bezze🃏cchi has made hi🥂s way up to 6th, passing Miller at turn three.

On the one hand, he's a long way behind Ogura, on the other, he's been able to cut his way through the group๊ he was stuck in from the start.

08:27
Lap 17/26

It would be really interesting to know what is going through the head of Alex Marquez at the minute. How do you make a plan to try and win this 🧸race when you were handed the lead and the guy who gave it to you hasn't been more than 0.2s behind for the 10 laps since?

08:26
Mir out

Joan Mir has crashed out at the final corner. He's fine enough to be fu𓆉ming about it.