{"id":224081,"date":"2025-06-29T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224081\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:27:10","slug":"update-on-alex-marquezs-condition-after-crashing-out-of-dutch-motogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224081\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Alex Marquez&#8217;s condition after crashing out of Dutch MotoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Alex Marquez has broken his hand in a crash at the 2025 MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix and is set for surgery in Spain this evening, in a major blow to his world championship hopes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Running in the victory battle in the early stages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/935450\/alex-marquez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Marquez<\/a> was attempting an overtake on KTM&#8217;s Pedro Acosta at Turn 5 when the pair rubbed shoulders on the exit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marquez then crashed on the exit flicking right onto the back straight in what appeared to be a touch of his front brake lever on the rear of Acosta.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He was taken to the medical centre, which revealed he has broken his hand.<\/p>\n<p>Blow for Alex Marquez in MotoGP title battle    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/gng_1241963_hires.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Marquez\" width=\"5131\" height=\"3421\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Alex Marquez<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marc Marquez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/results\/1075448\/1\/2025-dutch-motogp-assen-race-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the Dutch MotoGP at Assen <\/a>after his brother&#8217;s crash.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He was informed about his brother&#8217;s broken hand in parc ferme.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The factory Ducati rider is now 68 points ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/gresini-racing-motogp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gresini <\/a>rider, who is second in the MotoGP standings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marc will lead the championship heading to the Sachsenring, one of his favourite circuits.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alex has got a two-week break to rest his injury after surgery before the next race in Germany.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is an unfortunate setback for the younger Marquez brother who is enjoying his best season in the premier class.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Riding a year-old Ducati in a satellite team, he has tamed his machine perfectly and has outpaced Bagnaia, on new machinery, all year.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez has broken his hand in a crash at the 2025 MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56406,88456,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-224081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alex-marquez","9":"tag-gresini-racing-motogp","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114766888631590272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}