Marc Márquez wins in Sepang and the World Cup is approaching: the tenth can come in Qatar

Another victory for Marc Márquez at the decisive moment of the MotoGP World Championship. The current champion easily won the main race in Malaysia with more than four seconds ahead of Pedro Acosta and could be champion of the competition next week in Qatar. The podium was completed by Álex Márquez.

This victory is a giant step for Marc, who already has 399 points, 44 more than Jorge Martín who could not be in the weekend races due to his right arm injury. Marco Bezzecchi, third in the standings, has 332.

Marc started the race sweetly from the beginning. Starting second ahead of Álex, he made a big overtake in the first corner, his brother returned it to him but the current champion regained the lead of the race and did not let go of it at any time.

Before the end of the first lap, Pedro 'Tiburón' Acosta overtook Ogura to take third, with Marco Bezzecchi behind them in fifth place. The Italian overtook the Japanese in turn fourteen to try to reach the slipstream of Acosta's motorcycle, which was following the Márquez brothers.

In those initial laps the race pace was not too fast. Acosta tried to find the right place to overtake Alex Márquez who was very combative in the first laps and who, with his resistance to being overtaken, allowed Marc Márquez to gain a few metres, minimal, of advantage, in a race that, without major differences, kept almost all the drivers in 'single file'.

Little by little Marc Márquez distanced himself from his pursuers, without any moments of 'tension' occurring in his wake, with all the riders maintaining their positions, but with the nine-time motorcycling world champion already with more than a second advantage over Alex Márquez on the ninth lap, just one before the halfway point of the race.

On lap ten Pedro Acosta decided to attack and overtake Alex Márquez, as well as Marco Bezzecchi, although the Italian did not succeed due to the almost immediate response of the Spaniard.

On the eleventh lap the race situation had Marc Márquez leading, with Acosta 1.9 seconds behind, the trio formed by Alex Márquez, Bezzecchi and Ogura more than seven tenths of a second away and the group led by the Italian Enea Bastianini was already almost seven seconds behind.