Marc Marquez took his first-ever Austrian Grand Prix MotoGP win after hounding and overtaking Marco Bezzecchi for the lead, then surviving a late charge from rookie Fermin Aldeguer.
Marquez's first Red Bull Ring grand prix victory - coming a day after his first Red Bull Ring sprint win - meant he is now up to six successive grand prix wins and 12 successive race wins.
And with brother Alex Marquez hobbled by a long lap penalty for taking Joan Mir out last time out at Brno, it means the gap between the two in the championship is up to 142 points.
Aprilia polesitter Bezzecchi had lost the lead immediately at the start on Saturday, but held firm here, fighting off Pecco Bagnaia in the braking zone for Turn 1 before Bagnaia in turn came under pressure from Marquez.
We've got @pecco63 vs @marcmarquez93 already 🔥#AustrianGP 🇦🇹 pic.twitter.com/CKZmS25Vlr
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) August 17, 2025
The championship leader had cleared his brother Alex immediately at the start and attacked Bagnaia into Turn 3, but Bagnaia got a better exit and squeezed Marquez to the inside on the run to Turn 4, consolidating the position.
Marquez did make the move stick a lap later and, while Bezzecchi found himself eight tenths clear after two tours, Marquez closed right up on the leader in the next stretch of the race.
But with no way past presenting itself the gap soon opened up again, Marquez seemingly choosing to drop back to cool his front tyre - before reeling Bezzecchi back in for another go.
This culminated in a brief but spectacular duel between the two as Marquez overtook Bezzecchi on the run out of Turn 3 but Bezzecchi struck back through Turn 6, only to yield for good at Turn 1 the following lap.
The late-race intrigue in the podium battle then came from rookie Aldeguer instead, who was eighth after the start but who had enormous pace in the closing stages.
Aldeguer's gradual climb up the order lifted him to third on lap 19 of 28 as he cleared Pedro Acosta with a very forceful move at the second part of the Turn 2 chicane and set off after the leaders.
He pounced on Bezzecchi five laps later, parking his bike on the apex of Turn 3 in a bold move, and even briefly looked like he could give Marquez some trouble for the race lead - though ultimately Marquez controlled the gap at around 1s.
Bezzecchi rounded out the podium, with Acosta fourth on the KTM - two seconds ahead of Enea Bastianini, who recovered from a Turn 1 mistake early on.
Joan Mir was a superb sixth for Honda, posting his best finish for two years as he capitalised on the battle between Brad Binder and a badly-fading Bagnaia.
Bagnaia had run third early on but soon began to sink down the order, nearly getting his leg clipped by Acosta, then going wide at Turn 4, then having Binder launch his KTM down his inside at Turn 1.
That move allowed Mir to overtake Binder, and with Bagnaia wide in the corner and keeping the throttle pinned, he was ordered to drop behind Mir, too - before then surrendering the place to Binder to finish eighth.
Raul Fernandez, denied a potential top-five finish by a ride height device failure on Saturday, didn't quite have the same performance but still held on to ninth, narrowly fighting off Alex Marquez - who struggled to make big progress after dropping from fourth to 13th in serving his long lap.
It was a horrendous race for Yamaha to cap off the worst weekend any manufacturer has had this season, as the four M1s soon settled into running at the very back, with Fabio Quartararo the best of them in 15th - 25.2s back from the winner.
There were two retirements from the race, one of them Jorge Martin crashing his Aprilia at Turn 7 from 15th place. Martin looked winded after the crash - his leg looked to have got stuck on the bike as it slid through the gravel - but was quickly cleared of any significant health consequences.
A HUGE engine blow up for @FabioDiggia49 🧯#AustrianGP 🇦🇹 pic.twitter.com/A5qpT2Omcc
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) August 17, 2025
The other retirement was Fabio Di Giannantonio, whose VR46-run Ducati expired in a fireball while he ran 14th.
