Factory Aprilia rider Marco Bezzecchi made up for his mistake in the Saturday Sprint race in the best possible way on Sunday, leading from lights to flag and setting records along the way. Bezzecchi has now won five straight Grand Prix races, joining an elite club of five-in-a-row Grand Prix winners. Aprilia has gone 1-2 in the last two Grand Prix races, a new mark for the company. And Bezzecchi re-took the Championship points lead. Teammate Jorge Martin, who finished second, has been on the last four podiums (counting Sprint and Grand Prix races) and is in second, four points behind Bezzecchi in the Championship points.
KTM’s Pedro Acosta was again the best of the non-Aprilia rest, taking his second podium of the year. Acosta sits third in the points, with 60, behind Bezzecchi with 81 and Martin with 77.
Fabio Di Giannantonio was the top-finishing Ducati rider, but the Pertamina Enduro VR46 star could do no better than fourth and was fortunate to finish that high, as Trackhouse Racing’s Ai Ogura had passed him and was pulling away when Ogura’s Aprilia broke.
Ducati’s Marc Marquez started his day sitting outside of the medical office next to COTA’s media center, alone and in the dark. He served a long-lap penalty and finished fifth after a battle with Enea Bastianini.
Fermin Aldeguer finished the weekend with a 10th place in the Sprint race and 11th in the Grand Prix race. It was remarkable considering that the Gresini Ducati rider is still walking with a cane as he recovers from a broken leg suffered in pre-season testing.
A seven-rider pileup forced officials to red-flag the Moto2 race. Senna Agius took the win in the restarted 10-lap sprint. American Joe Roberts, one of the riders involved in the multi-bike crash, took the restart and finished ninth.
Guido Pini came out on top of a four-rider last-corner scramble and took the Moto3 race win. He became the first Italian rider to win a Moto3 race since Dennis Foggia in 2022.
Oscar Gutierrez won the second Harley-Davidson World Bagger Cup race of the weekend, rebounding from his last-place finish in Saturday’s race.
Ducati had no answer for the pace of the factory Aprilia machines and riders. So far this season, Ducati has had only four podiums in six Sprint and Grand Prix races and the highest ranking Ducati rider is Fabio Di Giannantonio in fourth, 31 points out of the lead. After the Sprint race, Alex Marquez, who is riding a current-spec Ducati for the first time in his career, estimated that he was only getting 80% out of the 2026 Ducati, and that it still needed development.
