Six-times MotoGP champion Marc Marquez continued his perfect start to life with factory Ducati as he completed a weekend double at the season-opening Thailand Grand Prix on Sunday, finishing ahead of younger brother Alex Marquez.

The Gresini Racing rider also lies second in the championship now, the highest he’s ever sat in the MotoGP riders’ points, and the Spaniard said that the 26-lap Grand Prix on Sunday was “the perfect race for me”. “Starting like this is something super-good,” Marquez told the post-race press conference in Buriram.

BURIRAM, Thailand — Six-time world champion Marc Marquez used all his experience to fight back from a mid-race wobble to outduel his brother Alex Marquez for a "dream" win in Sunday's season-opening Thailand MotoGP.

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Alex Marquez says it took him five corners of the Thai MotoGP Sprint to work out that Marc Marquez was “too fast for us”. Finishing 1-2 in the Sprint meant the Marquez brothers made history as the first siblings to hold the top-two positions in the MotoGP World Championship.

Marc Marquez and Ducati had a dream start, clinching the GP victory, securing pole position, and triumphing in the sprint race.

The triumph capped off a perfect weekend for Marc Marquez, who took pole position, the sprint victory and the grand prix win for a maximum 37 points to open the 22-leg 2025 campaign

Six-times MotoGP champion Marc Marquez made a dream start to life at factory Ducati when he led from lap one to the chequered flag to win the sprint at the season-opening Thailand Grand Prix on Saturday,

Spain's Marc Marquez completed a double with victory in the opening race of the MotoGP season at the Thailand Grand Prix. The 32-year-old six-time former champion won Saturday's sprint race at the Buriram International Circuit in his first competitive outing for his new team Ducati and started Sunday's race as pole-sitter.

Marc Marquez marked his Ducati debut with an impressive victory on Sunday at the Chang International Circuit in Thailand becoming the first rider since Casey Stoner in 2007 to win on their Ducati debut.