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Marc Márquez wins Australian MotoGP sprint as Jorge Martin breaks radius in crash
Ducati's Marc Márquez took the sprint at Phillip Island and moved into the championship lead after Jorge Martin crashed on lap 8 and fractured his radius. Martin will miss Sunday's race.
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In brief
Marc Márquez won the sprint and leads the riders' standings on 365 points, ten more than Jorge Martin on 355.
Martin crashed on lap 8 while second. Aprilia reported a radius fracture and a suspected right ulna fracture, and he will miss Sunday's race.
After crashing at turn 4 on his first flying lap, Márquez set 1:34.203 on a wet track, 1.494 seconds ahead of Alex Márquez.
- QualifyingMárquez crashes at turn 4 on his first flying lap, then takes pole in 1:34.203 on a wet track
- Sprint lap 8Martin loses his front end at turn 8, crashes and fractures his radius
- Sprint finishMárquez wins the sprint, with Alex Márquez second and Di Giannantonio third
Márquez wins the sprint
Ducati rider Marc Márquez won the sprint race at the Australian Grand Prix on Phillip Island on Saturday, 24 October, the eighteenth round of the championship. Europa Press reports that he and Jorge Martin exchanged up to ten overtakes over the first seven laps before their duel was interrupted. Márquez finished ahead of his brother Alex Márquez, also on a Ducati, and Fabio Di Giannantonio, who completed the podium. Pedro Acosta (KTM) took fifth, while Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) recovered to fourth from a ninth-place start. With the win, Márquez moved to the top of the standings on 365 points, ten more than Martin's 355.
Martin's crash on lap 8
Martin was running second behind Márquez when he crashed on lap 8. According to Europa Press, he ran over the inside kerb at turn 7, lost stability entering turn 8 and went onto the gravel after several rolls. Adnkronos reports that track staff helped him up before he was carried away on a stretcher to the circuit medical centre. Aprilia said X-rays showed a radius fracture and a suspected fracture of the right ulna at its distal end, with further tests due in the following hours. Martin will not take part in Sunday's race.
Qualifying and the grid
Márquez also crashed during qualifying, coming off at turn 4 on his first flying lap after pushing too hard, according to ANSA-AFP. He returned to the pits, switched to his spare bike and set the fastest time of 1:34.203 on a wet track, his 78th career pole. His brother Alex was 1.494 seconds back, with Johann Zarco third and Martin fourth on the grid. Jack Miller and Raúl Fernández started from the second row, and Bezzecchi from ninth.
Retirements and replacements
Maverick Viñales (KTM) and Raúl Fernández (Aprilia) also failed to finish. Europa Press reports that Fernández was still in pain from a fractured right index finger he suffered at Mandalika in October. ANSA also lists Johann Zarco and Francesco Bagnaia among the riders who did not finish. Iker Lecuona, standing in for Fermín Aldeguer on Ducati, finished ninth and scored points. Alex Rins (Yamaha) was twelfth and Augusto Fernández (Yamaha) fifteenth.
Championship picture
Martin, who led the standings before the sprint, dropped to second on 355 points. ANSA-AFP had earlier noted that he held a two-point lead over Márquez with five rounds left in the season. The updated standings show Bezzecchi third on 315 points, with Acosta and Ai Ogura level on 263 each.
- Marc Márquez
- 365 points
- Jorge Martin
- 355 points
- Marco Bezzecchi
- 315 points
- Pedro Acosta
- 263 points
- Ai Ogura
- 263 points
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- europa pressMarc Márquez wins the sprint and takes a bite out of the World Championship after the crash...Marc Márquez gana la esprint y da un bocado al Mundial tras la caída... · original in Spanish
- ANSA.itAustralia, M. Marquez wins the sprint and returns to the lead of the World ChampionshipAustralia, M. Marquez vince la sprint e torna in testa al Mondiale - Notizie · original in Italian
- AdnkronosMotoGp, Martin crashes and the stretcher enters the track: what happenedMotoGp, Martin cade e in pista entra la barella: cos'è successo · original in Italian
- AdnkronosMotoGp, finishing order of the Australian GP Sprint race and World Championship standingsMotoGp, ordine d'arrivo gara Sprint del Gp Australia e classifica Mondiale · original in Italian
- Marc Márquez
- Ducati rider who won the sprint and took pole position
- Jorge Martin
- Aprilia rider, leader of the standings before the sprint, who crashed on lap 8
- Alex Márquez
- Ducati rider, brother of Marc Márquez, who finished second in the sprint
- Fabio Di Giannantonio
- Ducati rider who finished third in the sprint
- Marco Bezzecchi
- Aprilia rider who finished fourth in the sprint and is third in the standings
- Pedro Acosta
- KTM rider who finished fifth in the sprint
- Raúl Fernández
- Aprilia rider who retired from the sprint with a finger injury
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