Marc Marquez now leads the world championship by eight victories in a row in the Czech MotoGP, which he achieved with his fifth victory in a row.
Marco Bezzecchi, a factory Ducati rider, lost by almost two seconds to Pedro Acosta in his third podium appearance of the season on Sunday against Marco Bezzecchi on an Aprilia by almost two seconds.
Marquez won both the Saturday and Sunday race’s sprint races for the fifth straight perfect weekend.
The 32-year-old Spaniard currently leads the world championship with 381 points, 120 more than his younger brother Alex, who crashed, and 168 more than Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia.
“It has been a fantastic first half of the season, and especially these final races,” Marc Marquez said.
He continued, “I ride very well and feel better.”
Marquez outsmarts his rivals.
On a sunny Sunday at Brno, Bagnaia started from pole, but the lead was only reclaimed when Bezzecchi eased past him in the second lap, and Marc Marquez followed suit.
Acosta did the same to move up in third place in the weekend’s sprint after receiving a boost from a third-place finish.
On the eighth lap, Marquez passed Bezzecchi as the runaway trio continued to increase their lead and, as they did so frequently this season, kept widening the gap comfortably.
The three held their positions until the finish line, but fourth-placed Bagnaia, who had been pressing from behind, gave Acosta a difficult time.
Bezzecchi described the first lap as “unbelievable.”
“I had a lot of fun in the first half of the race, but when Marc passed me, I realized he had more.”
He was strong when I attempted to attack him. Anyway, I did a fantastic job. The Italian continued, “I’m very, very happy.”
Jorge Martin, a reigning world champion, won his first race and finished seventh overall.
After two preseason crashes, Martin sat out the first three races before returning to Qatar in April, colliding severely with his teammates, who then missed the following seven competitions.
Brno makes a faster than anticipated return.
The 21 laps on the resurfaced 5.4km (3. 4 mile) Brno circuit, which returned to the MotoGP calendar after a five-year break due to financial issues, took 40 minutes, 04. 628 seconds, according to Marc Marquez.
The Brno resurfacing improved the on-track results, which were immediately apparent in the lap times this year, which were several seconds lower than the previous record.
Acosta lost to the six-time MotoGP champion by 3.366 seconds as Bezzecchi passed the line 1.753 seconds behind Marquez.
Marquez won his fourth MotoGP title at Brno after victories in 2013, 2017, and 2019 and almost 220, 000 spectators over the weekend.
After finishing 17th place in the sprint race, Alex Marquez crashed on lap two to leave Brno without a point.
He defeated Enea Bastianini a lap later, who also walked away from the gravel safety area.
Takaaki Nakagami, a Japanese sprinter, was forced to miss the race after sustaining a knee injury in a collision on Saturday.
The MotoGP circus will now break up with the Austrian Grand Prix on August 15 and 17.
“There are still ten races left until the summer break.” Time to relax, but Marc Marquez said, “I will continue to have the same mindset with the same intensity in Austria.”
He hopes to win his seventh MotoGP title, which would put him one behind Giacomo Agostini and Valentino Rossi, and his seventh since 2019.
Source: Aljazeera
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