MotoGP Spanish GP: Marc Marquez wins sprint as Fabio Quartararo crashes

Marc Marquez made it five MotoGP sprint wins in a row after Fabio Quartararo crashed out battling for the lead in the Spanish GP sprint race

Marc Marquez shrugged off a brief challenge from Fabio Quartararo as he took a fifth straight 2025 sprint race victory aboard the factory Ducati.

Although Quartararo was able to convert his surprise pole position into a brief lead, he fell when Marquez overtook him halfway around the second lap.

That was the end of any challenge to the Ducati dominance, as the Bologna bikes swept the top six in the best possible result, given its six representatives on the grid.

With Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) second and Francesco Bagnaia third on the second factory bike, the sprint top three simply cemented their respective positions in the championship. Marc now leads Alex by 20 points.

What little entertainment the sprint offered came in the first lap and a half. Quartararo looked to have lost the lead as Marc Marquez enjoyed the better initial getaway, but the Frenchman struck back on the entry to the first corner and was able to establish himself in the lead for the first lap.

But Marquez was already close to the Yamaha heading into the first corner of lap two. The factory Ducati pulled out of the slipstream halfway around the same lap and outbraked Quartararo on the inside as the pair approached the hairpin at Pedrosa.

Alex Marquez, Gresini Racing, Marc Marquez, Ducati Team

Photo by: Javier Soriano - AFP - Getty Images

Quartararo tried to stay with Marquez on the outside line, but could not get the M1 to turn in whilst asking so much of it. While he found himself on the floor and out of the race, Marquez was gifted a handy lead over his brother Alex.

That’s how it would stay for the remaining 10 laps of the race around the one-line Andalusian circuit, with Alex failing to mount any serious challenge to Marc. Bagnaia, for his part, could not threaten Alex, and had to settle for third – which was at least a significant improvement on his sprint outing last time out in Qatar.

Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati) was briefly ahead of Bagnaia on the first lap, but couldn’t make that move stick and he spent the rest of the race behind his fellow Italian.

Next up in the Ducati train was Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini), who withstood some early pressure from Fabio di Giannantonio (VR46) before making fifth place his own ahead of the Rimini man.

Maverick Vinales was behind di Giannantonio all race long, and the Tech3 KTM man’s seventh place made him the best of the non-Ducatis.

The last two points-paying positions went to Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi and Honda’s Joan Mir.

Cruelly, it meant that the pole-winning manufacturer, Yamaha, was the only one to come away from the sprint without a point in the riders’ championship.

MotoGP Spanish GP - Sprint race results

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Cla	Rider	#	Bike	Laps	Time	Interval	km/h	Retirement	Points
1	M. Marquez Ducati Team	93	Ducati	12	-				12
2	A. Marquez Gresini Racing	73	Ducati	12	+1.001 1.001	1.001			9
3	F. Bagnaia Ducati Team	63	Ducati	12	+3.077 3.077	2.076			7
4	F. Morbidelli Team VR46	21	Ducati	12	+3.530 3.530	0.453			6
5	F. Aldeguer Gresini Racing	54	Ducati	12	+5.791 5.791	2.261			5
6	F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46	49	Ducati	12	+7.691 7.691	1.900			4
7	M. Viñales Tech 3	12	KTM	12	+7.849 7.849	0.158			3
8	M. Bezzecchi Aprilia Racing Team	72	Aprilia	12	+10.175 10.175	2.326			2
9	J. Mir Honda HRC	36	Honda	12	+10.414 10.414	0.239			1
10	P. Acosta Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	37	KTM	12	+12.673 12.673	2.259
11	B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	33	KTM	12	+13.204 13.204	0.531
12	A. Ogura Trackhouse Racing Team	79	Aprilia	12	+13.438 13.438	0.234
13	L. Marini Honda HRC	10	Honda	12	+16.572 16.572	3.134
14	E. Bastianini Tech 3	23	KTM	12	+17.918 17.918	1.346
15	A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing	42	Yamaha	12	+19.963 19.963	2.045
16	R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team	25	Aprilia	12	+21.690 21.690	1.727
17	A. Fernandez Pramac Racing	7	Yamaha	12	+21.932 21.932	0.242
18	A. Espargaro Honda HRC Test Team	41	Honda	12	+22.515 22.515	0.583
19	L. Savadori Aprilia Racing Team	32	Aprilia	12	+30.200 30.200	7.685
20	S. Chantra Team LCR	35	Honda	12	+30.968 30.968	0.768
dnf	J. Zarco Team LCR	5	Honda	5	7 laps			Accident
dnf	J. Miller Pramac Racing	43	Yamaha	4	8 laps			Accident
dnf	F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing	20	Yamaha	1	11 laps			Accident
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