Ducati MotoGP rider Marc Marquez won the Argentine Grand Prix sprint at Termas de Rio Hondo, as MotoGP produced the same podium for the third consecutive time in 2025.
Marquez, his brother Alex and Pecco Bagnaia finished 1-2-3 in both the Thailand sprint and the Thai Grand Prix, and have now done so again in the Saturday race in Argentina.
And much like the Buriram sprint, this one featured Marc dragging Alex away from the pack while Bagnaia had to focus on consolidating third place.
Leading finishers
1 M Marquez
2 A Marquez
3 Bagnaia
4 Zarco
5 Di Giannantonio
Full results at bottom of page
The younger Marquez looked a credible threat to his brother in the first half of the 12-lap race, though he never came particularly close to an overtake before throwing in the towel in the final laps.
He now trails Marc by 11 points in the standings, with Bagnaia another eight points back.
And Bagnaia was perhaps fortunate not to face a sterner challenge from LCR Honda rider Johann Zarco, whose podium bid was wrecked by a poor start from the front row.
Sixth after the start, Zarco quickly worked his way back past French compatriot Fabio Quartararo's Yamaha, then spent a bit of time boxed in behind Pedro Acosta's KTM.
He was unchallenged for fourth once clearing Acosta but had too big a gap to Bagnaia to make up despite comparable pace.
Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) and Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) both made their way forward in the race to complete the top six, followed by Di Giannantonio's team-mate Franco Morbidelli.
Morbidelli was involved in one of the race's two collisions - as Brad Binder overtook him at Turn 7 on lap one, ran slightly wide, then returned to the line and fell off as Morbidelli tried to retake the spot at Turn 8.
Incident under investigation 🔎 @BradBinder_33 is out after that contact with Morbidelli #ArgentinaGP 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/2oEeepinTQ
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) March 15, 2025
That incident was swiftly declared as requiring no further action from the stewards, which wasn't the case for the other collision - in which rookie Fermin Aldeguer took down Miguel Oliveira, in a crash that remains under investigation.
In the top five after the start, both Acosta and Quartararo went desperately backwards during the race, the former overtaken by Honda's Joan Mir for eighth late on and the latter failing to score at all.
Results
1 Marc Marquez (Ducati)
2 Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) +0.903s
3 Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati) +3.859s
4 Johann Zarco (LCR Honda) +5.026s
5 Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati) +6.451s
6 Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) +7.333s
7 Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati) +8.368s
8 Joan Mir (Honda) +10.858s
9 Pedro Acosta (KTM) +11.229s
10 Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) +12.356s
11 Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha) +15.201s
12 Alex Rins (Yamaha) +15.298s
13 Luca Marini (Honda) +16.653s
14 Enea Bastianini (Tech3 KTM) +18.442s
15 Ai Ogura (Trackhouse Aprilia) +18.618s
16 Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse Aprilia) +19.560s
17 Somkiat Chantra (LCR Honda) +20.925s
18 Maverick Vinales (Tech3 KTM) +21.287s
19 Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati) +45.325s
DNF Lorenzo Savadori (Aprilia)
DNF Miguel Oliveira (Pramac Yamaha)
DNF Brad Binder (KTM)
