Marc Márquez turns the MotoGP World Championship into child's play
The Cervera-born rider hasn't failed in Hungary and has now racked up 13 wins in 14 sprint races this season.
BarcelonaMarc Márquez has made winning races in the MotoGP World Championship look like child's play. The rider from Cervera dominates the World Championship with astonishing superiority. This Saturday, Márquez (Ducati Desmosedici GP25) took another victory in a sprint race at the Hungarian MotoGP Grand Prix at the Balaton Park circuit, which he dominated from the first to the last lap. With this, he has now won 13 of the 14 sprint races of the season, all except the one at Silverstone. Today he did so by beating Italians Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati Desmosedici GP25) and Franco Morbidelli (Ducati Desmosedici GP).
All the riders faced an initial challenge in the Hungarian sprint race, the first at the Balaton Park stage, a circuit still little known. Márquez, who in the morning had achieved the pole position Having started first in Sunday's race, he made a strong start in today's short race. A start in which Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR-M1), who started sixth, ended up colliding with Italian Enea Bastianini (KTM RC 16). The rider fell shortly afterward after colliding with another Frenchman, Johann Zarco (Honda RC213V).
The race now had a clear leader. Marc Márquez took first place, with Fabio Di Giannantonio in second and his teammate Franco Morbidelli following close behind. Francesco Pecco Bagnaia, the reigning World Championship champion, was still uncomfortable in a distant thirteenth position. The factory Honda riders, Italian Luca Marini and Mallorcan Joan Mir, took advantage of the new Honda RC213V chassis to occupy fourth and sixth positions, respectively. With three laps remaining, Marc Márquez was comfortably in first place, with Fabio Di Giannantonio and Franco Morbidelli in the positions behind them, and Luca Marini, Fermín Aldeguer, Joan Mir, and Marco Bezzecchi gradually closing in on their rivals ahead. The race remained unchanged, and Marc Márquez won on a day in which his brother Àlex, second in the World Championship, finished in eighth place.
