Marco Bezzecchi
Marc Marquez was in fine form once again at the Dutch Grand Prix without having to go near his limit in either of the two races.
The six-time MotoGP champion bounced back from two high-speed crashes during practice on Friday to trounce his opposition once again, in something that is becoming a bit of a habit in 2025.
As a result, Marquez now leads the championship by 68 points from brother Alex Marquez, who sustained a fracture in his left hand following a crash in the race.
If Alex is forced to miss the next race or two in recovery from his immediate surgery, then the championship could be a foregone conclusion by the halfway stage. Ducati are simply too strong.
Marquez’s reaction speaks volumes about Alex’s crash, and he knows too well how long it can take to truly recover from such shunts.
It happened just days after Marquez made a mistake which forced Jorge Lorenzo’s retirement by crashing at the Hoge Heide corner. There were plenty of falls at Assen.
Alex Marquez
MotoGP fans couldn’t believe the ‘ridiculous’ decision Marquez made not to battle his older brother during the sprint on Saturday, despite appearing to have more pace than him.
They felt that he had wasted much of his potential to retrieve some initiative in a title fight which now looks like a one-horse race.
Alex headed straight to Madrid on Sunday evening for surgery on his fractured hand, and there has not been any update on whether he will miss any races as a result of his crash with Pedro Acosta.
It was a heavy hit which left him on the grass, but Peter Bom believes that the 29-year-old should have taken advantage of one ‘super’ upper-hand he had over his brother in the sprint.
“You do [go] so much faster than him [on] that straight after the kink, you’re on his inside. Then you have him in one of the two kinks that follow before we go to the fast left-hander.
“That’s a scary thing to do, but you can only do it if you have a super exit out of this double right-hander. Alex had that super exit.”
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Why it may make sense for Alex Marquez to rest rather than race before the MotoGP summer break
With just over one week before the next MotoGP race, Alex has little time to recover from his injuries before he must return to competitive action.
That’s unless he decides that allowing his left hand to heal properly should be his priority, and he’s in a decent window to allow that to happen.
The next two races in Germany and the Czech Republic are part of a double-header before the summer break, creating a big space for Marquez to recover.
After that, there isn’t a MotoGP race until August 17, meaning that he could take seven weeks off to recover if he wants to miss the next two rounds.
It all depends on the severity of the break and the level of pain he is experiencing as to whether he will be back in action again soon.
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