Marc Marquez admits the collision on the first🍸 lap of the MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix with brothe♚r Alex Marquez that left damage on his Ducati was “my mistake”.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati rider ended up 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:winning Sunday’s 22-lap Qatar GP by 1.8 seconds at the chequered flag to complete his third weekend hat-trick out of four roun𒐪🍸ds in 2025.

But his race was almost ruined at Turn 1 on the opening lap, when he and younger brother 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez on the Gresini-run Ducati made contact.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez lost a winglet from the rear of his bike, while the incident 🐼allowed VR46’s Franco Morbidelli to take the lead around the outside of the pair.

Explaining what happened, Marc Marquez said: “The contact with Alex was a little bit more my mistake than his mistake, because I just opened the gas and I fel🔥t like the rea♍r was going.

“I closed the gas again and he didn’t expect it.

“For that reason he hit me𝕴 and for that reason💙 Morbidelli overtook me from the outside.

“But it was more a little bit ♛my mistake. Luckily both of us stayed on our bikes.”

Alex Marquez had a second collision j𝓀ust a few laps later with Fabio Di Giannantonio while battling for third, which led to the former receiving a ride-through penalty.

He would finish seventh at the chequered flag, though was promoted to sixth when se💯cond-placed Maverick Vinales was demot🐽ed 16 seconds for a tyre pressure infringement.

Di Giannantonio ended up without points in 16th.

Though the damage to Marc Marquez’s bike initially looked like it was causing him problems as he was overtaken🌟 by the l♏ikes of Vinales and Pecco Bagnaia, he said he didn’t feel any ill-effects.

“No, no. Just I los♔t the smallest wing of the seat. So, I didn’t feel anything,” he said.

Marc Marquez brands Qatar GP “most important weekend” of 2025

Coming to a circuit heꦓ has only won at once in MotoGP and not sinc༺e 2014, Marc Marquez expected to struggle this weekend.

But a clean sweep of pole, sprint win and grand prix victory while his chief rivals dropped points ꦆhas allowed him to take a 26-point lead in the standings ag꧒ain having been trailing by one coming into the round.

“I’m super happy, especially because to my🗹self it’s the most important we💟ekend of the season,” he added.

“Because Thailand, Argentina, Austin were good circuits for me but here was the first circuit where I said ‘ok, maybeಌ I will struggle a little bit’.

“And I knew that Pecco and Alex and [Fabio] Di Giannantonio and some other riders are super-fas💯t here.

“But just I worked a lot during the weekend. I did a step on the right fast c꧑orners, which was also s🥀uper important.”

Marquez says he wasn't co🐟ncerned with others catching up to him in the first h♑alf of the race because he preserving his tyres for a push late on, which he did with seven laps to go.

“And as we see in the race,ꦚ I did a different strategy because I just managed the fಌront tyre,” he said.

“I knew that♌ doing𓂃 that strategy maybe Pecco would arrive because I slowed down the race a lot.

“Morbidelli was going but I didn’t care. I was just controlling my front tyre because I was not able to ride at my limit because I have a riding style that pushes t♐he front a lot.

“And in this circuit we struggled a lot. But then I just waited, when Pecco overtook me I said ‘ok, ꦐnow I start the race’, and I starꦇted to push more.

“The last seven laps when I overtook Vinales, just 👍I increased a bit more the brakes, the push, the turning and just tried to use the front tyre more. And that’s where I made the step.”