MotoGP HIGHLIGHTS 2025 German GP

It's lights out and we're racing in MotoGP here in Germany. It's a great start by Pedro Acosta from fourth place on the Factory KTM. He's immediately in the third attack though quickly by Alex Marquez. But Mark Marquez has made the perfect start. The dream launch for Mark. He leads here in the sax ring. The Gianantonio slots himself up into V3. Yes, Zarco once again going backwards. The Gianantonio went right around the outside of the first quarter into third place. Alex Marquez also up one into fourth. It looks like Pekka has also made big progress. He's ahead of Fabio Quattararo. Through the smoke and the flares they pick their way through. Down and down through turn seven. This is a tight punishing corner at Leyton when we go to the back end of this 30 lap German Grand Prix. All at ready then in position A just as he wanted it to be. Mark Marquez leads here early on in the sax ring. He's already a quarter of a second clear of Betsegi halfway around lap one. I think Fabio Gianantonio is quite keen to clear that Aprilia and if there was any one rider on Friday who looked like he might have the pace to at least make Mark Marquez work for this, it was Fabio Gianantonio. He's third in your picture and he'll want to make a move quickly as Betsegi closes in on Mark but he's losing second to the BR46 Ducati. Yeah, Gianantonio eager to get on with business here. All-time lap record in brilliant fashion here on Friday. Over three tenths clear of the field but here comes Betsegi with a dive bomb on the inside. This is just playing into the hands isn't it of Mark at the front of this German Grand Prix. Lap one of 30 in the books is Mark. That leads Betsegi in second place headed for Gianantonio after a lightning launch from fourth place. Briefed up to third. Acosta was back into sixth. He's reclaiming fifth now from Zarco into turn one. So at the front as they drop down through the Ralph Baldwin curve. Turn 11 on this lap two. There is Quattroaro under pressure from Marini. Here comes the Gianantonio. Well he made this move at the end of lap one. We're on the end of lap two Lightning has struck twice as far as Gianantonio is concerned. Now he's going to go defensive and protect that inside line from Betsegi. Betsegi gets attacked though by Alex Marquez on the front end into that final corner. So Betsegi now off the podium places Alex with a storming start up to third. Mark now has just set the fast lap of the Grand Prix. 1.21.037 which is just paces so fast than anybody else. Betsegi back on Alex Marquez and now picking up the pair of them almost goes There's an almighty battle going on behind Mark Marquez who's blissfully unaware of all of it. Bagnaia nearly cleaned out Zarco into the final corner at the end of that lap. Somehow managed to avoid the back of the Honda. Bagnaia firmly in this battle in seventh place. It's a battle we're all queuing up behind Marco Betsegi. Hammer down from Mark on lap two. There was nobody within three tenths of a second of him. Marquez that's successive fastest laps. He's in the top place as well but those two at the moment the only two riders in the 120s. Marquez fastest with a 1.20.776. We've lost Miguel Oliveira on the Plamac Yamaha. The last thing that Oliveira needed as he fights for his future in MotoGP. And we lost someone else as well. That's one of the KTMs. Acosta down coming through turn number two. Of course there are only two KTMs starting this Grand Prix. We're now down to one. This is already a race of attrition. If you're staying just washing out from underneath Acosta. Little he could do about that. So we've lost Acosta, Oliveira and Savadori very early on here in this German Grand Prix. But Brad Binder now there's the sole KTM running now. Of course with no Anaya Bastianini, no Maverick Vinales. What a brutal weekend this has been for KTM in Germany. Oh brave move that from Alex Marquez. The door slam shut in his face. Very brave. You have to be right alongside there into the Ralf Bollmann curve of turn 11 to make a move. And he couldn't make that move. But Benteke clinging on to that third place. Bagnani now next one of course. Because the gap between the two of them has now been vacated by Pedro Acosta out of the Grand Prix. So Bagnani now fifth from Zarco, Miller and Quattrovaro. Martin now the only rider in the 120s. A 1.20.773. He's reeling off 1.20.7s, 1.20.8s for fun right now. And he has stretched his lead to over a second for the first time in this Grand Prix. It's a pace at the moment which is just simply too hot to handle. DiGiannantonio 1.21 flat. Likewise Bette Secki, likewise Alex. But they just have not got the speed of Mark at the front of this Grand Prix. Nor is Bagnani who's doing low 21s. The top five are in a completely different race at the moment to everybody else. With Zarco in the high 21s. Although of course he was busy battling with Miller which would have impacted on his lap time. Fabio Quattrovaro now finally getting up to some sort of pace in this race. He's done a personal best on a 1.21.4. Here he is. Much like in Assen last time around. Just no grip in the early stages he said. Which feels like a similar story here because he was dropping places in the early stages. But he has now got up to speed and fended off Brad Binder. Alex Marquez hasn't been able to get anywhere near Marco Bette Secki since that point as we now reach one third distance. Over the crest we go. Braking from over 300 kilometers an hour down to 68 kilometers an hour. A real punishing this on your upper body isn't it as you grab a handful of brake. The rear goes light as well. Over the crest you can so easily overpower the front and see that wash out. Gianantonio at least is trying to make a race of it. He's clawed back a couple of tenths on this lap. I think this is just more Mark just making sure he's got some tire for a charge late on here. Gianantonio actually on that last lap to his credit was faster than Marquez. Marquez content just sort of run a couple of 1.21.2s but it's keeping him at arms length away from the Gianantonio. Gianantonio's fastest lap for a good four or five laps now. Ever since Di Gio dropped out of the 21s they've been losing 2.3 tenths a lap to Mark Marquez. But that was a bit of an increase in pace through to Gianantonio which coincided with Mark Marquez just perhaps just leaving a couple of tenths on the table just to manage himself and his bike and his tires through the rest of this Grand Prix. Certainly nothing to alarm the 93 camp just yet. The Gianantonio through sector two on this lap of 11.30 and had got the gap down to 1.3 seconds and Aldegaard now making more forward progress. He's got through this time around now on Binder down into turn 12. So it's going to be interesting to see where the balance of power is sitting at the moment as Mark and Di Gio cross the line. Once again Gianantonio is quicker than the 93 ahead of him. A 1.21.2 from Di Gio. Mark firing in a 1.21.4. The gap down to 1.5. That's Mark Marquez's slowest lap of the Grand Prix. You suspect that once Gianantonio gets to around a second behind Mark Marquez, if he ever gets that close, Mark Marquez will have some pace and hand to respond to that. But probably Gianantonio has threatened this kind of performance all weekend. He was so strong on Friday, was able to get that time attack in, which has been a problem for Di Gio, it's fair to say, over the course of the year. He's not generally qualified very well. Of course, had we had a dry qualifying yesterday, he might have been able to change that. But he is officially now the all-time lap record holder around this Sachsenring circuit is the 49. So this was a kind of result and a kind of performance that many saw coming. And of course, when he made such good progress on the first lap, Gianantonio did a lot You can see him just at the top of your picture, desperately trying to fend off the two factory Hondas. Marini's 11th, Mir in 12th place, points at the moment for Raul Fernandez, Ayaguirre and Alex Rins. Lorenzo Savadori rejoined the Grand Prix and is still circulating. He's down in 16th spot. Benteke has lost another couple of tenths on this lap to Alex Marquez. Here comes Aldeguerre with a slingshot down from Turn 11, up the inside of Jack Miller. Looked like Luca Marini was threatening a move potentially on Brad Binder in the background as well. We'll see in a second whether he got that move done. No, he did not. He's still back in 11th place. But Aldeguerre now finally starting to make some progress on the second Crescini Ducati. Pedro Acosta an early bath for the replicating factory racing start. He starts to debrief with his crew chief Paul Trevathan. This was his early exit just behind Alex. He was down through Turn 2. Don't see that very often, you have to say, a front-end washout down through that tricky second corner. It is fast, second gear at 100 kilometers an hour. Looking back at Acosta, there's nothing he could do about this. That front goes in a flash. There he goes, just took in the front then. So Acosta down and out early. And he looks a little bit baffled by that one, doesn't he himself? Yeah, I think everybody will be a little bit baffled as to how stronger Mark Marquez is than them. Of course, this is no surprise of course around anti-clockwise circuits. Mark Marquez historically has been unmatched. Of course, if you think back to circuits such as Mudflat Aragon, Phillip Island, Valencia, Mark Marquez has extraordinary records around all of them. In fairness to him, he's very good around circuits to the car right as well. He's one of the greatest riders Mother GP has ever seen. But put a rider of his talent and his specific skills around a circuit that goes left a lot and you've got a pretty good Yeah, he's about to, it looks like, conquer the Saxon ring once again and become just the second Ducati rider in history to win four in a row. He's starting to ask the question, when will be the next time Mark Marquez actually gets beaten? He's been just untouchable, hasn't he? The last three Grand Prix's. Suprema, his beloved Aragon, the brilliant Mugello. Superb last time out in coming to a track which he likes so much. It's just a little bit hot there, wasn't it? If somebody's gone down, we are lost of somebody. Oh, it's the Gian Antonio Fabio, the Gian Antonio. Just the point where we're saying it looks like he's nailed on for three successive top six finishes, head in hands for Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Step. There we can go from bad to worse. The Gian Antonio, he's going to tuck the front into that first corner. What a wretched weekend this been for VR46. John Zarco's crashed out too, Matt. Out of picture. We're watching the Gian Antonio's crash, but I think we're also about to see Johan Zarco somewhere in the Grand Prix. He's down, I think, at the same corner, Turn 1. Well, we thought we're in the phase of the Grand Prix, aren't we now? Yeah, he's just going to roll off the left-hand side of the tyre, isn't he? There's Zarco. The right-hand side, rather. That was a crash that we saw Pekka Banyai have, wasn't it? And when he was fighting Fabio Quattroaro in 2022, Zarco there just tapped the throttle back in. He needs to take some weight off the front end of that LCR Honda. Well, this is turning into a race of survival, isn't it, right now? Not the weekend that Zarco was hoping for. A brilliant second place on the grid, but faded with that trace in the wet sprint yesterday. Taking the Czech of Black Seven, and now he's crashed out of what was another top six beckoning. So this now then and pushes Alex onto the final place on the podium, with Banyai now up into fourth. Yeah, fading Banyai at this stage of the race. He's been in the mid-to-high 21s for the last few laps now. He's now over a second adrift of Alex Marquez. 1.3 to be exact, although he's got an awful lot of space. Eight and a half seconds' worth behind him to Quattroaro. Aldeguerre, though, is all the way up to sixth place now, having been outside the top 10 for much of the first half of this Grand Prix, and Aldeguerre doing low 22s. Is there still a chance of him getting on terms with Quattroaro and salvaging a top five out of this? Look at this battle, Honda KTM, Honda Aprilia. This is the battle. Dranmier, Luca Marini, Aigura, Brad Binder are also in the middle of that for eighth place. Luca Marini's got a bit of a second wind here. If he is feeling some physical strain, he's not showing it. Rather than go backwards, Marini going forwards. Oh, no, Baczacki's gone down, as we mentioned. Turn one again. We're into the phase of this Grand Prix now where it's those who can manage the tyres and just stay upright on two wheels. Baczacki, how many walking wind are we going to have in Brno next weekend? Turn one then now catches out Bez. We're right on board with him. Let's have a listen. Second place is cursed in the Sachsenring, isn't it, right now? Because the two Italians, both the Gianantonio and Baczacki, have bit the dust in that downhill braking zone. So now, Bagnani finds himself out of nowhere on the podium. Massimo Rivala, a pretty boss, can't quite believe what he's seen. So make that now 13 runners in this German Grand Prix. No further action taken then. Zarco clearly did not have sufficient time to react to the yellow flags before his crash. Well, if second place is cursed, well, the person in second place now, I guess it's in the safest hands because Alex Marquez has been in second quite a lot this year. He's lucky to second place now. Bagnani, as you mentioned, third. Quattararo up to fourth now on the Factory Yamaha, albeit a very distant one. And he's just about keeping out of the gear at arm's length. The second still between them for fourth and fifth. This now is the battle for second place. Once again in sector one. Oh, two riders down. That's Agoura and Mia. Wow. Agoura now and Joanne Mia. Joanne Mia who just cannot catch any kind of break, can he? It looks like he's pushing the blame on Agoura. Someone else just flew to you. I think that was Salvadori a couple laps down who also went down. So he's now crashed under yellow flags. I think we've now only got 10 runners. Oh, so Agoura having seen Mia run slightly wide into the first corner. Agoura. Salvadori. Salvadori's down for the second time in this Grand Prix. Binder trying to find a way through on Marini. There is no way through as you were then in terms of this battle for six. Millat versus Marini versus Binder. Alex still comfortably covering off Bagnani in the battle for second. Bagnani 1.5 seconds back now. Is that Luca Marini just shaking his right arm out there and then his right foot also taking on the pace? I think there's a right side of Luca Marini's body that is feeling rather sore and rather achy at this stage. But he's certainly putting mind over matter at the moment. Yeah, the problem for Marini is he fractured that left collarbone, didn't he? He said the issue is you hold your body in the same position around so many left-handers around this section ring circuit. The muscles just get tired so, so much quicker. And of course the consequence when you're carrying injuries on the left-hand side of your body, you use the right more to overcompensate. So I'm sure tonight has Luca Marini had to work harder than ever in his career for what he hopes to be a sixth place. He might be sixth place right now. Indeed it is. Beautiful on the inside of Miller. He goes into 12th. But what do they say? Hard work, grit and determination pays off. Certainly is for Marini right now. And Jack Miller unable to respond to that. Come back through into the Quackenberg Turn 13. He might have more trouble coming from his former teammate Brad Binder who he was battling with in the sprint yesterday. Quattararo has responded to Aldegaard and looks like he now has that fourth place under control. Miller no longer has sixth, no longer does he have seventh under control. Binder makes sure that the Aussie loses two places in three corners. He's got one hand and four fingers wrapped back around the crown, hasn't he, Marc Marquez? Just nine corners, ten corners remaining then for the number 93, who is going to have that sweet, sweet Saxon ring feeling once again as he cruises to what is going to be his 12th career success here in Germany. Davide Tardozzi. I can't quite believe what we have seen. This has been pure and utter dominance here by Marc Marquez. One of his biggest tri-race wins of his career surely now as he stretches nearly eight seconds clear of the chasing pack. He can roll off now and enjoy a return to the top step here at the Saxon ring. This is the big battle in the final lap. Aldegaard has well and truly chased down Quattararo in the last couple laps. He was three tenths quicker on each of the last two laps. Quattararo though has got a couple of corners to hang on. Marc Marquez has one more corner to go. Into the final corner the 93 goes. Marc Marquez reclaims his crown. He reigns in red. He's back on the throne as the king of the Saxon ring once again. It's a ninth MotoGP win and a track that almost broke him in 2023 but nobody can break his red hot winning streak in 2025. It's now four successive double wins and the Saxon ring is Marquez's manor once again. We are watching greatness. We are watching the number 93 back at the peak of his powers. Seven poles, 20 podiums, 10 sprint wins, seven Grand Prix victories and counting in 2025. After the demolition comes the coronation for the undisputed Saxon king. Our MotoGP results from the Saxon ring then. Marc Marquez with a fantastic ninth win in the German GP with Alex Marquez and Pekka Bagnay benefiting from chaos ahead of them to finish second and third respectively in an incredible contest which saw just 10 riders completing the race.