Marc Márquez imposes his law in the Aragon Grand Prix sprint race

BarcelonaThe Catalan Marc Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP26) has won the sprint race of the Aragon Grand Prix after overtaking his brother Àlex (Ducati Desmosedici GP26) and the Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia RS-GP). Márquez, who wants to be world champion for the tenth time this season, managed to overtake Bezzecchi at the start and set a pace too strong for his rivals.

If during the previous training sessions Bezzecchi had been the fastest, when the race arrived it was Marc Márquez's turn, who wants to cut points in the general standings, in which Jorge Martin still leads, who does not seem comfortable in Aragon, where he has not gone beyond fifth position.

Pedro Acosta and Jorge Martín starred in an exciting duel to see who finished fourth in a race in which Fabio Di Giannantonio, Fabio Quartararo and Luca Marini were immediately out of the running. Up front, Márquez gave no option and left his brother almost a second behind. The rider from Cervera will now try to confirm his good form in Sunday's race, in which he will not start first.

Bezzecchi achieves 'pole position'

And it is that before the sprint race, the official practice sessions have been held to decide who will start first in this Sunday's race, practices in which Marco Bezzecchi has dominated, achieving his third pole position of the season and also setting the absolute lap record for the Motorland circuit. Bezzecchi had already dominated in Friday's free practice sessions. But Marc Márquez put up a fight: in fact, on the first fast lap, the nine-time world champion achieved a time of 1:45.136, a new absolute record for the category this season, although Bezzecchi's response arrived shortly after with another absolute record, 1:44.984.

Bezzecchi will start from pole, with Marc Márquez and Àlex Márquez on the same line; Raúl Fernández, Jorge Martín and Pedro Acosta on the second; Fabio Di Giannantonio, Pecco Bagnaia and Johann Zarco on the third; and Diogo Moreira, Fermín Aldeguer and Franco Morbidelli on the fourth.