One of the pre-race favourites due to his long run🍌 pace in practiceꦦ, Marquez soon became the rider to beat.

The Gresini Ducati rider was clearly the most comfortable in the lead group as he wa🦩s able to recover from an intense battle with Jorge Martin to close down Francesco Bagnaia with ease.

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• Marque🦩z dominates Sepang sprint as Martin get⛄s the better of Bagnaia

Just half the race gone, Marquez made a second attempt at taking the lead away fro🐼m Bagnaia, but unlike the first, the Spaniard was 🎉successful.

Marquez dove to the inside of Bagnaia at turn 🥂nine and managed to hold൩ the apex, giving the reigning world champion no chance of squaring off the corner.

From that point forward, Marquez was unchallenged as he stretched cle🎃ar from Martin who also came through on Bagnaia with just over four laps to go.

Talking to MotoGP.c🎀om post-race, Marquez said: “Today I was on a mission and the mission was🏅 to win this sprint race. 

“I know that tomorrow we have a better chance beca🅺use the race pace looks really good, but in the sprint I didn’t expect to make that difference. 

“I was expecting to be with the top riders, with Jorge and Pecco who was struggling a little bit more. I did everything perfectly, timed everything perfe🍌ctly, so I’m really happy.&nb𓄧sp;

“We were struggling in the last races. People forget that I was injured🔯 and was comi💯ng back, but now we are here. We need to keep the level like this until Valencia.”