Iberian Derby
Marc Marquez vs. Pedro Acosta. After the fair play that emerged in the declarations following the ‘direct clash’ on Saturday, in the Sprint, between the two Spaniards – who don’t seem to like each other too much and who next year will almost certainly have to share the red garage of the Ducati factory team – the sparks. The first dig was thrown by the Shark, who proudly underlined how it was he who left Buriram at the top of the championship standingscontrary to what had been the predictions of #93. Not only that: the KTM standard-bearer had also rather quickly retracted that “I don’t feel like I won” pronounced hot after the Sprint. “I won and anyone who says otherwise has never seen a motorcycle race – Acosta later stated –in the end I was the one who crossed the finish line first. Point. Nobody gave me anything.”
The champion’s response
Marquez’s response came during a event organized at the Estrella Galicia brand with the other two world champions of the 2025 MotoGP championship also present, Diogo Moreira and José Antonio Rueda. The seven-time champion of the premier class, who this year is chasing the tenth overall title of his career, evidently did not appreciate this ‘raising of the crest’ from Acosta and wanted to put his compatriot in his place: “The Márquez of 2013 won the title in his first year in MotoGP,” he ruled, responding to those who asked him if he sees himself on the path that Acosta is pursuing. A clear reference to the fact that for now Acosta has not won a single GP in the top class and is at the start of his third season.
Controversial episode
Finally, the reigning world champion also returned to the controversial penalty imposed on him on the last lap of the Buriram Sprint: “It’s about establishing a line and maintaining it in all situations – he said – it’s like a penalty in football: it can be interpreted in one way or another. I am aware that it was a borderline action, I did not seek contact. If you enter you have to force the ‘block pass’, otherwise what happened to Acosta would have happened to me when he tried and went out long. We riders adapt, it’s like when there were many sanctions in Moto2 and Moto3 and so perhaps we will avoid it”he concluded.
