Considered the home race for the Márquez brothers, the Catalunya round of the MotoGP series saw the locals make good. The younger sibling Alex (Ducati) was the quicker rider, but he crashed out of the lead on Saturday to hand the Sprint race victory to his brother Marc (Ducati).
On Sunday, Alex came through to take the win over his brother Marc, with Enea Bastianini (KTM) finishing third.
Saturday’s Sprint saw Marc Márquez finish ahead of Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) in second and Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati) in third.
Marc Márquez is close to wrapping up the title with his massive points lead over his brother going into the next race at Misano. For full results and points for Saturday’s Sprint race, visit the MotoGP site here. For full results and points for Sunday’s MotoGP race, visit the MotoGP site here.
Stick around Mick, I like 35 percent of what you write, and do not understand the remaining 65 percent.
It is nice to see a Racey bike leaned over gracefully, with rider parts all tucked in, just like me on the street. I just do not believe the fad of tail fins is real. May need to put some on my station wagon, to test them out.
After years and years of getting beat, Ducati has finally put all the pieces together, creating new technology and changing how MotoGP bikes are made, to win. And, Gigi deciding to hire MM93 instead of last years champion, was, well lets say ‘the right move’. Poor Honda and Yamaha, now having to ‘catch up’, copy Ducati to at least understand what they created, then if possible make it better to beat them. Crickets from the peanut gallery about mm93 this and that, how long it will take him, he’s just a crasher, all that. He is domiant. No doubt about it, no one imagined how lost Pecco would be, but even if he finds his mojo again, he is way behind. What a fantastic race the last sprint and GP were! We were jumping out of our seats as Fabio passed in the first few corners, and what if he was on a Ducati, like Marc? What a great season of racing this has been.
at the end of 2024 I’d have wagered marc (on the same bike as Pecco/Martin) could outpoint Pecco and (a healthy) Martin in 2025 for the win but not by any huge margin. I would never have guessed where Pecco would be in the standings.
*Pecco stated near the end of 2024 that he realized his accomplishments, vs MM, in 2024 don’t mean much and it will be when he and MM are on the same bike that will tell the tale. That was a classy thing to say and not something Martin would ever admit to.
2025 marc has not only domintated, he has once again raised the bar. It’s an absolute pleasure to see the many riders who have responded extremely well…Bezz, Marini, F DiGi, FQ (described as supremely aggressive), etc., too many too list. really great racing in 2025.
it’s rather exciting to watch MM re-claim his legtitimate superstar status and, at the same time, watch the rest of the field race even better than last year.
nothing at all boring about the 2025 MotoGP.
For a few years the guys here would complain that this was turning into the Ducati Cup. With good reason. Ducati made a bike that everyone went fast on. This year they fixed that. Now you have to have to word “Marquez” on your ID or you get pretty mediocre equipment from Ducati. The response here? Either complaints about a poor quality broadcast or nothing at all. That’s what happens when you turn a racing series into a scripted television show. I am playing the role of the crickets.
This is Alex’s 3rd year on a Ducati and his bike is still not the GP25 that Marc has, though the 24 and 25 are said to be closer than the 23 and 24 were.
Marc is the best rider in the world and Alex finally put the pieces together. There’s no conspiracy, only the coincidence that these two separate men, racing for two separate teams, on two different bikes, happen to share the same last name. Ducati wouldn’t spend million’s of Euros to field 4 more bikes only to deliberately handicap them. It’s doing nothing for their brand to have half of their bikes behind Aprilia and KTM in the title chase.
You are entitled to your opinion. I do not share it. Team politics is older than both of us combined. It has never been popular. Humans have a strange inability to learn from the past.
Iwas bummed today to learn that Beta is releasing a 2026 350 carbureted two stroke. Only to learn that it has less grunt than their outgoing 300. It’s a motocross bike, which is usually my starting point for a new woods bike. Hopefully a retuned woods version is coming. I would be so on that. Failing that I am kind of hoping they, a company that makes trials bikes, follows the trials industry in that many trials bikes have a lot of gasket combos available. Two stroke are quite tunable with port timing. You can use gaskets to move the ports up and down a bike tailor your power delivery, think cam change on a four stroke. Thin base gasket plus whatever head gasket to dial the squish and bang! Bolt on grunt for peanuts. God made the two stroke because he loves us.
Satan rides a thumper. He’s slow. I raced him a few times. He has hot chicks serve some really nice beer if he’s in a good mood after the races. You kind of want to pack up and leave if he’s angry. Guy’s got a temper.
Ahhhh the all powerful man in the sky with a beard and his nemesis. Now I know you’re crazy. Worshipping deities… my favorite passtime
Hey its your world and the rest of us just live in it.
Bagnaia did say that the team doesn’t really talk to him anymore. That’s a bit of a pregnant pause don’t you think?
Look at this year under the harsh light of it’s results and check the recent past. Enjoy the year of brotherly love my friends! The made for TV Halmark race season. Watch them both get married at the end. That would be hilarious.
My colon guy tells me not to eat popcorn. So I’ll sit out this year like the last 23.
You have a lot of opinions about what’s happening in GP for a guy who’s “sat out” for 23 years.
“The response here?”
the low attendance/response here is due to your (yes, you Mick) consistent entirely off base and silly (to be polite) presence here.
MotoGP is very much alive and well and a huge draw elsewhere.
if you, Mick, cared enough and would like to see this website do better then you should(and you know it) just leave.
My thoughts exactly. With Mick’s posts, we get further and further off-topic and MC-Daily becomes just a sounding-board for his views and prejudices. Give it, and us, a rest Mick.