Marc Marquez is back on top on a Sunday during the 2025 MotoGP season after the Ducati rider won the Aragon Grand Prix for his first main race victory in four rounds.
The 32-year-old has dominated on a Saturday since moving up from Gresini to ride with the factory Ducati team this year. Yet Grand Prix glory evaded Marquez in recent rounds, but the King of MotorLand Aragon showed why he reigns supreme in Alcaniz once again on Sunday.
Marquez penned his fourth win of the 2025 MotoGP season so far by a commanding 1.107s with his victory in the Aragon GP. It is even the Spaniard’s seventh win at the Alcaniz track to date, following on from Marquez securing his seventh Aragon GP pole this Saturday, as well.
Marc Marquez proved he’s ‘desperate’ to avoid crashing with his Aragon GP win
Victory on Sunday also sees Marquez do the Aragon GP double in back-to-back years after earning his first Sprint and Grand Prix wins on a Ducati with Gresini in 2024. Marc Marquez beat Alex Marquez for the Aragon Sprint win on Saturday for his seventh Sprint win of 2025.
But while the six-time premier class champion never looked in danger of missing out on the win in the Aragon GP, Neil Hodgson believes Marquez ‘clearly’ indicated he is ‘desperate’ to avoid crashing out of another Grand Prix after his retirement in America and crash in Spain.
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Marquez left Hodgson with a clear view on the matter after biding his time through the first five laps of Sunday’s Aragon GP. The Ducati rider knew he was not under pressure from Alex Marquez in the early stages, before then stretching his lead by setting a flurry of fastest laps.
Hodgson told TNT Sports 2 (08/07, 13:10): “This is what Marc’s doing, he’s letting the feeling come to him. He’s not rushing it, like we’ve seen a couple of times this year. He’s desperate, clearly, to not make a mistake in one of the main races again.”
Marc Marquez has learnt from his Americas GP and Spanish GP crashes
Marquez crashed out of the lead of the Americas Grand Prix in March while trying to break away from his Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia and Gresini star sibling, Alex Marquez. He opened a two-second lead over his title rivals, but slid out through the Esses sequence.
The 32-year-old seemingly did not learn his lesson about pushing at inopportune moments when the MotoGP season hit Jerez, however. Marquez crashed in the Spanish Grand Prix as the Spaniard tried to hang onto Bagnaia as the Italian hunted Yamaha ace Fabio Quartararo.
Marquez lost the front of his Ducati GP25 through Jerez’s Turn 7 as he tried to make up time in one of his strongest corners at the track. But the Ducati ace did not push himself to levels anywhere close to that in the Aragon GP, albeit as Marquez had the win in the bag early on.
