Marc Marquez admits the colli൲sion on the first lap of the MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix with brother Alex Marquez that left damage on his Ducati❀ was “my mistake”.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati rider ended up 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:winning Sunday’s 22-lap Qatar GP by 1.8 seconds at the chequered flag to complete his third weekend hat-trick out of four rounds i൩n 2025.

But his race was almost ruined at Turn 1 on the opening lap, when he and younger brother 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez on the Gresini-run Ducati made contact.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez lost a winglet♓ from the rear of his biꦏke, while the incident allowed VR46’s Franco Morbidelli to take the lead around the outside of the pair.

Explaining what happened, Marc Marquez said: “The contact wi𒊎th Alex was a little bit more my mistake than his mistake, because I just opened the gas and I felt like the rear was going.

“I closed the gas again and he didn’t expect it.

“Forﷺ that reason he hit me and for that reason Morbidelli overtook me from the outside.

“But it was more a little bit my mistake. Luckily both of us stayed on🦄 our bikes.”

Alex Marquez had a second collision just a few laps later with Fabio Di Giannantonio while battling for third🍨, which led to the former receiving a ride-through penalty.

He would finish seventh at the chequered flag, though was promoted to sixth when second-placed M꧑averick Vinales was demoted 16 seconds for a tyre pressure infringement.

Di Giannantonio ended up without points in 16th.

Though the damage to Marc Marque🃏z’s bike initially looked like it was causing him problems as he was overtaken by the likes of Vinales and Pecco Bagnaia, he said he didn’t feel any ill-effects.

“No, no. Just I lost the smallest wing of th💮e seat. So, I didn’t f༺eel anything,” he said.

Marc Marquez brands Qatar GP “most important weekend” of 2025

Coming to a circuit he has on🧜ly won at once in MotoGP and not since 2014, Marc Marquez expected to struggle this weekend.

But a clean sweep of pole, sprint win and grand prix victory while his chief rivals dropped points has allowed him to take a 26-point lead in the standiꦓngs again having been trailing by one coming into the round.

“I’m super happ♔y, especi🎃ally because to myself it’s the most important weekend of the season,” he added.

“Because Thailand, Argentiဣna, Austin were good circuits for me but here was the first circuit where I said ‘ok, maybe I will struggle a little bit’.

“And I knew that Pecco and Alex and [Fabio] Di Giann♌antonio a🌜nd some other riders are super-fast here.

“But just I worked a lot⭕ during the weekend. I did a stꦛep on the right fast corners, which was also super important.”

Marquez says he wasn't concerned with others catching up to him in the first half of the race because he pre🦂servi♌ng his tyres for a push late on, which he did with seven laps to go.

“And as we see in the race💯, I did a different strategy because I just ༺managed the front tyre,” he said.

“I knew th🐲at doing that strategy♉ maybe Pecco would arrive because I slowed down the race a lot.

“Morbidelli was go💛ing but I didn’t care. I was just controlling my front tyre because I was not able to ride at my limit because I have a riding style that pushes the front a lot.

“And in this circuit we struggled a lot. But then I just waited, when Pecco overtook me I sai꧃d ‘ok, now I start the race’, and I st🌞arted to push more.

“Thಌ💜e last seven laps when I overtook Vinales, just I increased a bit more the brakes, the push, the turning and just tried to use the front tyre more. And that’s where I made the step.”