Quartararo crash sets up Marquez romp in Jerez sprint
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Quartararo crash sets up Marquez romp in Jerez sprint

by Megan White
2 min read

Marc Marquez took another dominant victory in MotoGP’s Spanish Grand Prix sprint race after poleman Fabio Quartararo slid out on lap two.

The Yamaha rider, who took his first pole since 2022, fell off at Turn 6 while battling Marquez for the lead.

After that, factory Ducati rider Marquez was unstoppable, finishing over a second clear of brother Alex to score his fifth consecutive sprint win.

Pecco Bagnaia finished where he started in third, two seconds behind the younger Marquez and unable to challenge for a better result.

Marquez fought for the lead off the line already, inching past Quartararo before the 2021 world champion made it back past with a Turn 1 divebomb.

Behind, Gresini’s Alex Marquez passed Bagnaia into third as Tech3 KTM rider Maverick Vinales, who had lined up sixth, dropped behind rookie Fermin Aldeguer.

Franco Morbidelli attempted a move past fellow Italian Bagnaia at Turn 6, but Bagnaia held on.

Aldeguer then tried a move on the VR46 rider, but lost time at the last corner and allowed Morbidelli back through.

Marquez had hounded Quartararo all over the opening lap and went for the lead on lap two at Turn 6 - with Quartararo's desperate attempt to fight back on the brakes ending in a crash.

With Marquez promoted into the lead, he immediately set off down the road, with brother Alex 0.6s behind by the following lap. Though Bagnaia was able to match the brothers’ pace, he was unable to close the gap.

By lap five, Marquez’s lead was up to a second, and he held that margin across the line after 12 laps.

Alex Marquez built the gap to Bagnaia to two seconds by the end of the race, with the factory Ducati rider 0.5s ahead of Morbidelli.

Jerez sprint points-scorers

1 M Marquez
2 A Marquez
3 Bagnaia
4 Morbidelli
5 Aldeguer
6 Di Giannantonio
7 Vinales
8 Bezzecchi
9 Mir

Aldeguer took fifth ahead of VR46’s Fabio Di Giannantonio, with Vinales seventh. Marco Bezzecchi was eighth for Aprilia - initially putting pressure on Vinales but then dropping back, nearly into the clutches of Honda rider Joan Mir. Mir ultimately took the final point in ninth.

Jack Miller crashed out on lap five, having ran 15th on his Pramac Yamaha, while LCR Honda rider Johann Zarco - the sole rider to gamble on the medium rear instead of the field's preferred choice of the soft rear - slid off at Turn 2 from 12th.

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