Marc Marquez admits ꦜthe collision on the first lap of the MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix with brother Alex Marquez that lꦅeft damage on his Ducati was “my mistake”.

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:factory Ducati rider ended up 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:winning Sunday’s 22-lap Qatar GP by 1.8 seconds at🔯 the chequered flag to complete his third weekend hat-trꦍick out of four rounds in 2025.

But his race was almost ruined at Turn 1 on the opening lap, when he and younger brother 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez on the Gresini-run Ducati made contact.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez lost a winglet from the rear 🅘of his bike, while the incident allowed VR46’s Franco Morbidelli to take the lead around the outside of the pair.

Expla☂ining what happened, Marc Marquez said: “The contact with Alex ღwas a little bit more my mistake than his mistake, because I just opened the gas and I felt like the rear was going.

“I closed the gas again and he didn’t expect it.

“For that reason he hit me and for that reason Morbidelli overtook me from t💫he outside.

“𓃲But it was more a little bit my mista𝓀ke. Luckily both of us stayed on our bikes.”

Alex Marquez ha🦂d a second collision just a few laps later with Fabio Di Giannantonio while battling for third, which led to the former receiving a ride-through penalty.

He would finish seventh at the chequered꧟ flag, though was promoted to sixth when second-placed Maverick🃏 Vinales was demoted 16 seconds for a tyre pressure infringement.

Di Giannantonio ended up without points in 16th.

Though the damage to Marc Marquez’s bike initially looked like it was causing him🐼 problems as he was overtaken by the likes of Vinales and Pecco Bagnaia, he said he didn’t feel any ill-effects.

“No, no. Just I🌟 lost the smallest wing of the seat. So, I didn’t feel anything,” he said.

Marc Marquez brands Qatar GP “most important weekend” of 2025

Coming to a circuit he has only won at once in MotoGP and not since 2014, Marc Ma📖rquez ex꧃pected to struggle this weekend.

But a clean sweep of pole, sprint win and grand p💙rix victory while his chief rivals dropped points has allowed him to take a 26-point lead in the standings again having been trailing by one coming into the round.

“I’m super happy, especially becaಌuse to myself it’s the mos🎐t important weekend of the season,” he added.

“Because Thailand, Argentina, Austin were good circuits for me but here was the first circuit where I said ‘ok, maybe I will struggle a little𓃲 bit’.

“And I knew that♎ Pecco and Alex and [Fabio] Di Giannantonio and some other riders are super-fast here.

“But just I worked a lot during the weekenꦍd. I did a step on the right fast corners, which was also 🦩super important.”

Marquez says he wasn't concer💙ned with others catching up to him in the first half of the race because he preserving his tyres for a push late on, which he did with seven laps to go.

“And as we s♉ee in the race, I did a different strategy because I just managed the front tyre,” he said.

“I kn🌳ew that doing that strategy maybe Pecco would arrive because I slowed down the race a lot.

“Morbideꦍlli was going but I didn’t care. I was just controlling my front tyre because I was not able to ride at my limit because I have a riding style💝 that pushes the front a lot.

“And in this circuit we struggled a lot. But t♉hen I just waited, when Pecco overtook🐎 me I said ‘ok, now I start the race’, and I started to push more.

“The last seven laps ℱwhen I overtook Vinales, just I increased a bit more the brakes, the push, the tu🏅rning and just tried to use the front tyre more. And that’s where I made the step.”