Masterful Marquez awesome in Assen

Marc Marquez keeps on winning, completing a hat-trick and matching racing royalty with a first Dutch TT win in six years.

Marquez had to overcome some early battles with Francesco Bagnaia and his brother, while Marco Bezzecchi offered a late challenge.

But like he has so many times in 2025, the #93 prevailed and was never lost the lead after snatching it on Lap 5.

A sixth win of 2025 pushes Marquez’s career total to 68 Grand Prix wins in the Premier Class, matching the total of Giacomo Agostini for second all time.

With Alex Marquez having a heavy crash and suffering a left hand fracture, the championship lead only grew to 69 points.

Bezzecchi was rewarded with his late charge to a runner-up finish, while Bagnaia overcame Pedro Acosta to complete the podium.

Quartararo bogged it down off the line from pole and dropped to seventh after a close call with Morbidelli at the opening corner.

This left the familiar three Ducatis fighting for the lead and Bagnaia took control ahead of the Marquez brothers with Alex ahead of Marc.

But this was not the case for long as Marc picked off his younger brother with ease.

It was not a clean opening lap as Miguel Oliviera and Al Ogura fell at the first left hander.

Alex Marquez kept falling down the order, losing third to Bezzecchi, who launched a surprise dive with success at the Geert Timmer chicane.

The Gresini rider also found himself under attack from Acosta as the pair launched an aggressive battle.

But it proved to be one shoulder rub too many and Alex Marquez lost the aggressive battle.

He fell hard at the change of direction of the back straight and whilst he walked away, he looked ginger after his distant title hopes took a hit and suffered a left hand fracture.

To rub salt into the wounds, Marc Marquez was again leading the race, having snatched P1 from his teammate with a surprise and successful dive at the final chicane at the end of Lap 5.

There was more pain to come for Gresini with Fermin Aldeguer having a terrifying high side right in front of Joan Mir.

Whilst Mir did well to avoid the Spaniard, the pair joined the growing list of non-finishers that also included Lorenzo Savadori.

As the race flew out of the opening stages, Bezzecchi became a bigger and bigger factor.

The Italian flew on his Aprilia and displaced Bagnaia from second at the chicane, while Acosta repeated the move a lap later to punt the factory Ducati off the podium.

This did not last long as Bagnaia reclaimed third from the KTM youngster just a handful of laps later.

Bezzecchi carried on this momentum by pushing the limits to apply pressure on Marquez around the halfway mark.

With the intensity high, the top four were trading fastest laps as Marquez was never allowed to pull more than a 1s of the lead.

This crated a clean, but tense run to the flag with little splitting the four four.

The Italian stayed close to his back wheel for the remainder of the journey to chequered flag, but never quite got close enough to the winning machine.

MotoGP now heads to the Sachsenring for the German Grand Prix.

Image: Gold and Goose

2025 Dutch TT results

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