Marc Marquez continues to make the 2025 MotoGP season look like his own personal highlight reel.
The Spanish veteran grabbed his fifth straight win — and eighth out of twelve races — in Brno on Sunday, delivering yet another commanding performance that stretched his lead in the world championship standings to a ridiculous 381 points.
Chasing him across the finish line, but never quite catching him, was Italy’s Marco Bezzecchi on an Aprilia, with rookie Pedro Acosta impressing in third on his KTM — his first podium of the season.
The factory Ducati rider wasn’t just fast — he was flawless. For the fifth weekend in a row, Marquez nailed both the Saturday sprint and the Sunday race, outclassing a field that’s struggling to keep up.
It started like it could be anyone’s game. Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia grabbed pole and held the lead for exactly two laps — until Bezzecchi and then Marquez swooped in, pushing him aside like traffic cones.
Acosta followed suit, locking in third and staying there for the rest of the race, despite pressure late from a desperate Bagnaia. But the real story was Marquez, who passed Bezzecchi on lap eight and simply disappeared into the horizon.
And that “something more” has now become the theme of the season.
Marquez’s 381 points give him a 120-point lead over his younger brother Alex, who crashed out in Brno. Bagnaia sits third, 168 points behind.
The reigning world champ Jorge Martin finally got on the scoreboard after finishing seventh — the first race he’s even completed this year. Martin has had a brutal season, missing ten of the first eleven races due to multiple crashes.
With input from Al Jazeera
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