Marc Marquez won the Petronas Grand Prix of Malaysia at the Sepang International Circuit, a victory that moves the Ducati Lenovo Team rider a major step closer to the MotoGP world championship.

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Marquez headed into the race with 374 points, 19 clear of Jorge Martin, who had 355 and sat second in the standings, with Marco Bezzecchi third on 322. The 25 points for the win lift Marquez to 399. Martin does not appear on the timing screen, and if he did not score, the gap between them grows to 44 points.

Pedro Acosta, the winner of Saturday's Sprint, finished second for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, 4.172 seconds behind Marquez. Acosta also set the quickest lap of the race, a 1:59.261, ahead of Marquez's own best of 1:59.420.

Alex Marquez, who crashed out of the lead of the Sprint, bounced back to take third for BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP, 5.955 seconds behind his brother and giving the Marquez family a victory and a podium on the same day. Ai Ogura was fourth for Trackhouse on an Aprilia, 6.759 seconds off the winner, ahead of Enea Bastianini in fifth for Red Bull KTM Tech3, 10.896 seconds back.

Marco Bezzecchi finished sixth for Aprilia Racing, 11.259 seconds behind the winner, after losing a position in the closing stages. Luca Marini was seventh for Honda HRC Castrol, followed by Fabio Di Giannantonio in eighth for Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing. Brad Binder was ninth for Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, with VR46's Franco Morbidelli tenth, 25.097 seconds behind the winner.

Fabio Quartararo was eleventh and Alex Rins twelfth for Monster Energy Yamaha, ahead of Francesco Bagnaia in thirteenth for Ducati Lenovo, Maverick Vinales in fourteenth, Lecuona in fifteenth and Jack Miller in sixteenth. Johann Zarco, Diogo Moreira and Joan Mir were classified as non-finishers, along with Alex Fernandez, who completed just one lap.

The race was run in partly cloudy conditions, with the air temperature at 35 degrees Celsius, the track at 54 and humidity at 50 percent.