A dominant victory for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez is something that feels normal by now in 2025, but even the MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix had surprises in it for the eig🌞ht-ti𒐪me World Champion.

Coming into the weekend, it had bee💟n expected that, following his victory in ♔Austin, Francesco Bagnaia could continue to build his momentum on a circuit he won at in 2024, and where Marquez hadn’t won since 2014.

But,🌼 in the end, it was Marquez who again proved su🦋perior, taking his third victory of the season.

Based on the pre-weekend narrative, the victory could be seen as a surprise, but the real shock for Marquez himself was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales, who led five laps in the middle of the race and crossed the line second before being demoted to 14th via a 16-second penalty for breaching front t🌄yre press🐟ure rules.

Marquez said that initially he thought Vinales was Pedro Acosta; an understandable mistake given the similarities between the factory KTM team's livery and that of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tech3 KTM team.

“It was a big surprise when Maverick [Vinales] overtook me – at one time I thought it was Acosta be🧜cause normally he is the fastest KTM, but then when I saw it was M🅷averick it was a great surprise, he was super-fast,” Marquez said.

“But I had that mꩵargin for the end, these last two or three tenths.”

Marquez said that he was managing the front tyre in the first part of the race, which was led by Franco Morbidelli between laps one and 10, but began to push when he was passed by his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ducati Lenovo teammate Bagnaia on lap five.

“[I knew before the race] I need to m🔯anage the front tyre👍,” said Marquez in his post-race TV interview.

“So, for that reason, in the first part of the race I was quiet; Morbidelli was going but I predicted, or I under𒅌stood yesterday with the rhythms, that he would not be fast in the second part of the race.

“But then, when Pecco [Francesco Bagnaia] overtook me I saꦰid ‘Okay, now 𒐪the race starts,’ and I started to push.”

Marquez re-passed Bagnaia for second place on lap seven, and ultimately proved to hav💎e the strongest pace in the final part of 🐠the race, staying in the 1:52s in comparison to Bagnaia who was in the 1:53s from lap 18.

Vinales was the only one able🍷 to stay close to Marquez’s late pace, not dropping out of the 1♎:52s until lap 21, the penultimate lap.