MOTOGP: Marquez dominates Aragon race to increase his championship lead

MotoGP's six-time champion Marc Marquez secure a light-to-flag victory at Motorland Aragon, having beating his brother Alex Marquez and his team-mate Francesco Bagnaia. F1Technical's senior writer Balazs Szabo reports on Race 8 of the 2025 MotoGP season.

Having won the sprint race on Saturday, Marc Marquez started from pole position on Sunday. The six-time MotoGP champion got a great launch off the line, with his brother Alex Marquez following suit.

Franco Morbidelli displayed eye-catching pace in qualifying, but he lost out at the start, dropping down the order to P7. It meant that Francesco Bagnaia, Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder could all move up the order.

Acosta looked eager to overtake two-time MotoGP champion Bagnaia. The Spaniard made the pass on the Italian at Turn 1 on Lap 2, but Bagnaia regained P3 at Turn 2. However, at Turn 12, Acosta did make a move stick on the Bagnaia, but the Italian was able to bite back at the penultimate corner to reclaim P3.

The opening phases of the race indicated that multiple drivers - Alex Marquez, Bagnaia, Acosta, Binder - would be able to stay with race leader Marc Marquez, with the factory KTM rider setting fastest laps of the race on Lap 7.

However, the next laps saw Marquez outshine the KTMs, setting the quickest race laps to increase his lead to 0.8s first before further stretching his legs.

On the back of two sensational performances in France and the UK, Castrol Honda rider Johann Zarco crashed out at Turn 12, bringing a great run of form to an end.

Lap 12 saw Binder crash out at Turn 2 before former MotoGP champion Fabio Quartararo suffered the same fate at Turn 1.

With nine laps to go, Marc Marquez’s lead was now just under two seconds as Alex Marquez continued to keep Bagnaia at bay by 0.5s.

Although Acosta initially appeared to have the pace to challenge for podium places, he started to drop back as the race approached its final phases. However, he had three seconds of fresh air behind him to Franco Morbidelli.

On the back of several strong results, Red Bull KTM Tech3 rider Maverick Viñales suffered a crash at Turn 12 while he tried to chase down Joan Mir.

Although Alex Marquez and Bagnaia managed to find some late pace in the closing stages of the Aragon race, it was not enough to beat Marc Marquez who become the first rider to lead every practice session, qualifying, sprint race and win the Grand Prix since his own result at the 2015 German Grand Prix.

Alex Marquez came home second to record another podium finish, fractionally beating Bagnaia, who explained his podium finish with setup tweaks after his horrendous showing in the sprint race.

Acosta secured a fourth place finish for KTM's factory team, while Morbidelli fractionally beat Aldeguer in a feisty fight for P5.

Having retired in five of the opening seven race, Joan Mir finished in P7 to pick up his best result since the 2023 Indian GP, followed by Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio Di Giannantonio while Raul Fernandez completed the top ten.

Alex Rins continued his point-scoring streak with a P11 at Aragon, with Enea Bastianini, Augusto Fernandez, Jack Miller and Miguel Oliveira rounding out the point-scoring positions.