MotoGP Thailand GP: Marquez scores brilliant win on factory Ducati debut

Marc Marquez outduelled his brother in a strategic masterclass to assert victory on his debut with the manufacturing facility Ducati MotoGP workforce within the Thailand Grand Prix.

Polesitter Marquez purposefully sat behind Gresini’s Alex Marquez for a big part of the race and made the decisive transfer on him with 4 laps to run to assert what was an in any other case snug 1.7s victory at Buriram.

Alex Marquez made it a memorable 1-2 for the Spanish brothers, whereas Francesco Bagnaia needed to accept third place regardless of closing quickly on the main duo within the closing levels.

Initially of the race Marquez pulled away cleanly from pole place to seize the holeshot, whereas a superior getaway allowed his team-mate Bagnaia to cross the Gresini bike of Alex Marquez for second into Flip 1.

Bagnaia and Alex Marquez appeared to make contact on the exit of the identical nook, forcing the Spaniard vast off the monitor and behind Ai Ogura, however he shortly repassed each Ogura and Bagnaia to reclaim second place.

On the entrance, Marc Marquez prolonged to the very best a part of 1.5s and was seemingly on his method to a dominant win when he mysteriously slowed down at Flip 3 on lap 7, permitting his brother to grab the lead on the following straight.

Whereas it initially appeared the six-time MotoGP champion had hit mechanical points, he was again up to the mark straight away, slotting in behind the Gresini bike for the subsequent section of the race. This urged that he had purposefully slowed right down to maintain tyre pressures below management.

It grew to become clear that Marc Marquez had a tempo benefit over his brother Alex, who was combating the rear grip on his GP24.

On lap 23, the 32-year-old despatched his manufacturing facility Ducati up the within of Alex Marquez and pulled off the transfer to reclaim the lead.

The previous Honda star shortly picked up the tempo on the next lap to construct a buffer, ultimately successful the race by the very best a part of two seconds to safe the utmost haul of factors from the Thai opener, having received the dash race on Saturday.

Alex Marquez didn’t have the tempo to maintain up together with his brother on the final three laps, however did greater than sufficient to carry off the opposite works Ducati of Bagnaia, who directly stage seemed to be in rivalry for race win.

Fourth place went to the VR46 Ducati of Franco Morbidelli, who dropped three seconds behind the rostrum runners after difficult Bagnaia for third through the center part of the race.

Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Crew

Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Pictures

Ogura placed on a shocking efficiency on his MotoGP debut to complete fifth for Trackhouse Aprilia, even beating the manufacturing facility Aprilia of Marco Bezzecchi in sixth place.

LCR’s Johann Zarco charged from twelfth on the grid to take a superb seventh as the very best of the Hondas, forward of manufacturing facility KTM rider Brad Binder and Tech3 KTM’s Enea Bastianini.

Binder and Bastianini have been the one factors scorers for KTM as Maverick Vinales completed a distant sixteenth and Pedro Acosta wound up nineteenth after remounting on his bike following a crash on lap 3.

Finishing the highest 10 was Fabio di Giannantonio for VR46.

Raul Fernandez and Joan Mir have been the one two riders to retire from the race.

MotoGP Thailand GP – Race outcomes