2025 Americas MotoGP: Pecco Bagnaia wins after Marc Marquez crashes from lead
B🌜agnaia wins chaotic Americas Grand Prix for Ducati
Pecco Bagnaia won a dramatic 2025 MotoGP Americas Grand𒐪 Prix after Ducati team-mate Marc M🌃arquez crashed out of a comfortable lead.
Marquez came into Sunday’s 20-lap grand prix at COTA looking to exte🔥nd his 100% w🎃inning record in 2025, having taken victory in Saturday’s sprint.
But he would ultimately crash out of the lead on lap nine, gifting 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia a comfortable first victory of the season.
Second for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez means 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez now trails his younge🉐r brother by one point in the standings.
There was drama even before the grand prix got underway, as ꦺrain prior to lights led most to fit wet tyres, though KTM duo Brad Binder and Enea Bastianini, and Trackhouse Racing’s Ai Ogura, fitted slicks.
The start was then thrown into chaos wit🌄h three minutes before lights out, after poleman Marc Marquez ran off the grid to get his dry bike - triggering a number or riders, including Bagnaia, to do🐲 the same.
With some still on the grid and others running into pitlane with bikes heading in the♒ other direction, the start was delayed.
There were no changes to the grid, as had been the case in Argentina 2018 in a similar situation, with Marc Marquez ⛄lining up on pole for the shortened 19-lap race.
Marquez grabbed the holeshot from poleꦬ, while Bagnaia battled with Alex Marquez for second over the opening tour.
This allowed Marc Marquez to lead by 1.1s to start lap two, with Bagnaia eventually getting a moℱve for second done on the fourth tour at Turn 12.
Leading by over two seconds when he began lap nine, Marc Marquez’s race c🐼ame to an end at Turn 4 when he took too much kerb and tucked the front of his factory Ducati.
This released Bagn🎶aia into a lead he would not lose, with the double world champion scori🐈ng his first win of the season by 2.089s over Alex Marquez.
The Gresini rider, now the championship leader, kept VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio at bay in second, while the latter’s team-mate Franco Morbidelli was four🎶th.
Jack Miller wa⛎s the leading Yamaha in fifth for Pramac, while Marco Bezzecchi came through from 13th to sixth for Aprilia ahead of Tech3’s Enea Bastianini.
Luca Marini scored his best Honda grand prix result in eighth ahead of Ogura💙 and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo - who crashed his dry bike on the sighting lap before the aborted start.
The final points went to Alex Rins (Yamaha), Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse), Augusto Fernandez (Pramac), Maverick Vinales (Tec♔h3) an🍸d Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia).
Vinales wasꦚ forced to start from pitlane after his bike developed ꦬan issue on the grid.
Marc Marquez rejoined t💙he ra🌌ce after his crash on lap nine, but a broken fairing and missing foot peg forced him into pitlane on lap 13.
There were crashes for Gresini rookie Fermin 🌳Aldeguer - who was running fifth - KTM’s Pedro Acosta, Honda’s Joan Mir and LCR🦄’s Johann Zarco, while Brad Binder retired with technical issues.
