Marc Marquez revolutionizes the World Championship with a great triumph at the Aragon Grand Prix

BarcelonaA great weekend for Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP26), who completed a clean sweep by winning the Aragon MotoGP Grand Prix, closing the gap on leader Jorge Martín (Aprilia RS-GP). Márquez, who had already won Saturday's sprint race, arrived at the Motorland circuit in fourth place in the general standings and leaves as the second-placed rider. The 9-time world champion now has 237 points, and is just 19 behind Jorge Martín's 256, with Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia RS-GP) third with 232 points.

On a circuit where he usually achieves great results, and where he has won more than once, Márquez put on a show with a race in which he overcame an initial mistake, as he did not deactivate a device on the rear of the bike to lower the suspension, which made him go a little slower in the first laps. And, despite this detail, just as happened on Saturday in the sprint race, he overtook Marco Bezzecchi at the first corner of the track. Bezzecchi started from "pole position", but could not stop the aggressive start of the rider from Cervera. Now, the Italian has fought back and taken the lead again, taking advantage of Márquez's technical error. Bezzecchi set a new circuit speed record on Saturday and competed well in Aragon, showing he has recovered after a few months marked by a crash and an injury. But Márquez, when it comes to competing, is special and is the one who emerges strongest from a race in which Jorge Martín finished fifth, overtaken by the Italian and Pedro Acosta (KTM RC 16).

When he was first, Bezzecchi tried to break the race, but neither Marc Márquez nor Pedro Acosta yielded. On the sixth lap, Marc Márquez overtook Marco Bezzecchi with a spectacular maneuver that gave goosebumps to the spectators. The rider from Cervera no longer lost control of a race in which Raúl Fernández (Aprilia RS-GP), with technical problems, retired. In fact, Márquez set the fastest lap of the race twice, and prevented Acosta from having any chance of winning the first race of the season. In the end, Acosta and Bezzecchi accompanied him on the podium, with Àlex Márquez fourth.

Marc Márquez, who suffered a fall at the beginning of the season that led him to the operating room, remains very much alive in the fight to win the World Championship. Today he showed himself to be in top form and ended up on his knees on the circuit, celebrating with the fans who followed him to Motorland. The fight to see who wins the World Championship will be exciting, with Martín still first but seeing how things are getting difficult with 9 races to go. The next one will be in San Marino on September 13.