A dominant victory for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez is something that feels normal by now in 2025, but even the MotoGP Qatar Grand Pri💧x had surprises in it for the eight-time W༺orld Champion.

Coming into the weekend, it had been expe𝕴cted 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 ag🌞ain proved superior, taking his third victo𓆏ry 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: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 tyre 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Tech3 KTM team.

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

“But 🐽I had that margin for the end, t♎hese 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ducati Lenovo teammate Bagnaia on lap five.

“[I knew befoꦍre the race] I need to manage 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 understood 🗹yesterday with the rhythms, that he would not be fast in the second part of the race.

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

Marquez re-passed Bagnaia fo🦄r se𒆙cond place on lap seven, and ultimately proved to have 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’sꦅ late pace, not dropping out of the 1:52s until lap 21, the penultimate la𝓡p.