Álex Márquez emerged victorious on Saturday (15) in the Sprint of the Valencian Community Grand Prix, the final stage of the 2025 MotoGP season. The Ducati rider from Gresini took the lead right from the start, withstood the pressure from Pedro Acosta, and after his rival made a mistake, went on to win the short race at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in the Spanish city of Valencia.
The second position was taken by Acosta, a KTM rider who finished just over a second behind Márquez. Fabio Di Giannantonio was third with a VR46 Ducati, after overtaking Raúl Fernández on the penultimate lap, leaving the Aprilia rider from Trackhouse in fourth. Marco Bezzecchi, who started from pole position, finished fifth with Aprilia.
Franco Morbidelli, with a VR46 Ducati, closed the dispute with a sixth-place finish, finishing right ahead of Fabio Quartararo, seventh with Yamaha. Brad Binder, with a KTM, crossed the finish line in eighth place, followed by Ai Ogura, ninth with the Aprilia from Trackhouse. Johann Zarco, from LCR Honda, finished tenth.
The main race of the Valencian Community Grand Prix will take place on Sunday, with the start at 10 am.
Check out how the race went
Álex Márquez took the lead right from the start of the race, with Pedro Acosta moving from fifth to second place. Raúl Fernández advanced to third, followed by Fabio Quartararo and Fabio Di Giannantonio. Pole Marco Bezzecchi dropped to sixth place. In the back of the pack, Jorge Martín advanced to 11th place.
In the second lap, Joan Mir and Luca Marini, Honda teammates, crashed. At the front, Acosta began to pressure Márquez for the lead, while Fernández, in third, followed the leaders from a distance. In the intermediate pack, Fermín Aldeguer had contact with Jack Miller and lost positions, continuing in the race.
Martín made a mistake and escaped the track on the fourth lap, dropping to 22nd place. Bezzecchi began to recover positions and advanced to fifth by overtaking Quartararo. Miller, due to the incident with Aldeguer, was forced to give up three positions as a penalty. Di Giannantonio, meanwhile, began to attack Fernández for the third position.
Márquez opened up a gap over Acosta on the fifth lap of the race, taking a one-second lead after the Spanish KTM rider made a mistake. The race reached its halfway point with Franco Morbidelli pressuring Quartararo for sixth place, eventually making the pass a few laps later.
Leading the race, Márquez controlled the distance from Acosta, always maintaining a gap of over a second. Fernández did not have the pace to follow the second-placed rider and had his third position threatened by Di Giannantonio. The Italian from VR46 made the pass on the penultimate lap of the 13-lap dispute.
At the front, Márquez went on to win, followed by Acosta and Di Giannantonio.
