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Marquez Sweeps to Victory in Hungary, Extends Title Lead – SUCH TV
Marc Marquez continued his winning streak as he cruised to victory in the Hungarian Sprint race by almost three seconds on Sunday to pad his championship lead.
It was a seventh straight Sprint victory for the Spaniard who has also won the last six longer Sunday grand prix races on his factory Ducati.
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Fabio Di Giannantonio, an Italian with the VR46 Ducati satellite team was a distant second at Balaton Park, followed by his team-mate and compatriot Franco Morbidelli third.
Marquez, a six-time world champion, started the race from pole position.
“I felt someone really close on the first corner, from there I quickly found a fast rhythm,” Marquez said. “I’m very happy with this victory.”
He extended his lead in the world championship to 152 points over his younger brother Alex Marquez, who finished eighth on his Ducati Gresini.
Italian Francesco Bagnaia, the second rider on the official Ducati team, failed to score any points after finishing 13th.
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The double world champion had struggled in qualifying at the end of the morning, setting only the 15th fastest time.
The race lost three riders in the first few seconds.
Frenchman Fabio Quartararo started on the second row, was the ridr who gave Marc Marquez a first corner scare, braking late on his Yamaha and then colliding with Italian Enea Bastianini.
Quartararo crashed, Bastianini managed to keep his KTM on the track but a few corners later, he ran into the back of the second French rider Johann Zarco’s Honda, ending the race for both of them.
Lando Norris, earlier this month, trimmed McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri’s lead in the drivers’ world championship to just 14 points when he switched tactics to lead him home by just 0.698 seconds in a thrilling finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The 25-year-old Briton, who moved from a two-stop strategy to one stop, held off series leader Piastri, on fresher tyres, over the closing laps of a strategic contest to claim McLaren’s 200th victory and their record 13th win in Hungary.
It was Norris’s first win at the Hungaroring in the event’s 40th race, avenging his ‘team orders’ defeat in 2024 when Piastri claimed his maiden success, his fifth victory of the season and the ninth of his career.
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Geoffrey Boycott advises England to ‘use brains’ for Ashes remainder
Legendary England batter Geoffrey Boycott on Monday advised the Ben Stokes-led side to adopt a more strategic and thoughtful approach ahead of the second Ashes Test against Australia, scheduled for Thursday in Brisbane.
England suffered an agonising eight-wicket defeat in the series opener in Perth, which lasted less than two days, the first of which was dominated by the touring side as they had reduced the hosts to 123/9 after accumulating 172 all out.
The visitors now face another gruelling challenge in the blockbuster series as they take on the Baggy Greens in a pink-ball Test, in which the hosts boast a dominant record, having lost just one out of their previous 14 appearances, but Boycott, who has won Ashes both in England and Australia, believes that the Three Lions can win the upcoming game by adopting a calculated strategy.
He, however, warned England batters of self-destruction, advising them to “use their brains” and decide whether to attack or hold back after analysing the situation.
“But it doesn’t help our chances of success if Ben Stokes keeps encouraging our batsmen to attack, attack with one finger hovering over the self-destruct button,” Boycott wrote in his Daily Telegraph column.
“Nobody is asking the players to stop being positive because they have given us some marvellous, thrilling and entertaining cricket. All we ask is for them to use their brains and realise there are times when they should throttle back and be aware of situations and bat accordingly,” he added.
Boycott, who represented England in 108 Tests and 36 ODIs, also slammed Stokes for his comments in which he referred to former cricketers as “has-beens” but expressed satisfaction over the all-rounder’s partial apology.
“To call past players ‘has-beens’ was disrespectful, especially as some of those ‘has-beens’ played in teams that won the Ashes in England and Australia,” Boycott wrote.
“I am glad Ben has half apologised, saying it was a slip of the tongue, because none of this team has won the Ashes in Australia. Get the job done, because then you don’t need to say anything and you can bask in all the glory coming your way.”
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