MotoGP Thailand 2025 Race Report

Rarely, and I mean rarely, does anything go as planned. That’s what we call life. Shit happens along the way, you deal with it as best you can and try and stay focused on the task at hand. No one knows this as well as Marc Marquez. The eight-time champion should be a double-digit world champion by now, but, as previously mentioned, shit happens. But when the 8x champion signed with the Factory Ducati squad mid-summer of 2024, everyone penned Marquez as the pre-season favorite. And after setting a blistering pace at pre-season testing, everyone seemed to double down on Marquez. After the checkered flag was waved on a muggy afternoon at the MotoGP Thailand 2025 season opener, Marquez made sure to remind people that their selection wasn’t in vain. He absolutely destroyed the field.

MotoGP Thailand: Brothers Marquez

It was the Buriram Beatdown, and that is putting it mildly. Marquez swept the weekend, winning pole position, the sprint race, and, after teasing his baby brother Alex Marquez, the Sunday race. Just pure domination. The only hiccup in his path to destruction was on lap seven of the Sunday race when he appeared to have an issue and let brother Alex take the lead until with three laps remaining, he again decided to jump out and show the field exactly who Marc Marquez is. He won the race by a margin of almost two seconds.

MotoGP Thailand: Ai Ogura, the Rookie

While Marquez was busy cleaning his boots from all the ass-kicking he was doing, the one bright spot on the weekend, if you weren’t on a Ducati, was Japanese rookie Ai Ogura, on the Trackhouse Racing Aprilia.  The rookie didn’t race like a rookie and garnered fourth in the sprint, fifth on Sunday, and was a royal pain in Pecco Bagnaia’s backside. Ogura was just what the doctor ordered on an otherwise predictable weekend.

Some big names are still getting acclimated to their new machinery, while others were just plain ol’ M.I.A. It’s hard to tell a season by one race. But I will say this, MotoGP needs to sort out the tyre pressure issue, amongst other pressing issues. As much as I live and breathe MotoGP, the MotoGP Thailand season opener was basically a parade with very few battles. In other words, boring! DORNA will figure it out. At least I hope so. The last thing we want to see is MotoGP become Formula One.

But until that happens, watching Marc Marquez march toward his ninth crown, is not a bad trade-off. There are worse things in the world to watch. I’m sure when Jorge Martin gets healthy and Pecco and the rest of the field figure it out, it’ll make things a little more interesting. But until that happens, witnessing greatness, just might not be that bad.

Next stop… Argentina. Let’s hope the rest of the field shows up. We know #93 will.

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