Marc Marquez celebrated his 200th MotoGP start with a dominant lights-to-flag victory in the German Grand Prix on Sunday, the Ducati rider winning for the ninth time in the premier class at the Sachsenring to extend his world championship lead to 83 points at the season’s halfway stage.
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The 32-year-old Spaniard was untroubled in an attritional race where just 10 riders finished, Marquez winning by 6.380 seconds for his fourth Grand Prix win in succession, and winning both the sprint and main race for the fourth straight event after his twin successes in Aragon, Mugello and Assen before Sunday’s Sachsenring romp.
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Marquez’s younger brother Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) overcame a broken left finger from the previous race in the Netherlands to finish second in his 100th MotoGP start, after Ducati’s Fabio Di Giannantonio and Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi crashed out of second place on lap 18 and 21 respectively.
Marc Marquez’s teammate Francesco Bagnaia finished third after qualifying 11th, with the 10 finishers the fewest to see the chequered flag since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island.
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“Sachsenring, one more year was super special and from the beginning I feel good,” Marquez said after taking his 69th MotoGP win to advance to outright second in the all-time record books.
“Confidence coming into the weekend was super high because we were coming from three victories in a row, so this is the fourth one and we are in an incredible moment.”
After needing a last-lap overtake of Bezzecchi to win Saturday’s sprint after dropping to fifth place on the first lap, Marquez had no such difficulty on Sunday in Germany, escaping to a one-second lead after just six laps as Di Giannantonio broke away from a pack featuring Bezzecchi, KTM’s Pedro Acosta and Bagnaia in pursuit of the leader.
Marquez extended his advantage beyond three seconds at the halfway stage of the 30-lap race before Di Giannantonio, then Bezzecchi, crashed at the first corner within three laps of one another.
The championship leader extended his lead beyond seven seconds before cruising home on the final lap for his 12th world championship lead across all three classes at the Sachsenring, and his first in Germany since 2021.
Australia’s Jack Miller faded late to finish eighth, the Yamaha rider running inside the top six from lap 21 before being passed by Honda’s Luca Marini and former KTM teammate Brad Binder in the final three laps.
Round 12 of the 22-round MotoGP season will take place at Brno in the Czech Republic from July 18-20.