Mugello hosted a Grand Prix for the first time in 1976 and this is the 39th GP held here, including 29 events in a row from 1991 to 2019. The events in 1976, 1978 and 1985 were the Nations GP and 1982, 1984, 1991 and 1993 were named the San Marino GP. Since 1994 it has been the home of the Italian GP.

The first MotoGP race here was won by MotoGP™ Legend Barry Sheene by the margin of 0.1 sec from Phil Read, in a race lasting over 62 minutes. The layout has been basically unchanged since then too, with the track length of 5.245 km (3.25 miles) remaining the same.

The MotoGP™ race at Mugello in 2004 is the shortest ever premier class Grand Prix race: six laps. The race was stopped due to rain and restarted for the remaining laps as per the rules at the time.

Loris Capirossi, Valentino Rossi, Andrea Dovizioso, Danilo Petrucci and Francesco Bagnaia are the only Italians with MotoGP wins at Mugello. Capirossi won after a race-long battle with Max Biaggi and Rossi, both of whom crashed late on.

The modern era victories since 2002 are shared by nine riders: Valentino Rossi (7 wins), Jorge Lorenzo (6) and Bagnaia (3) have the majority, and Dani Pedrosa, Casey Stoner, Marc Marquez, Dovizioso, Petrucci and Fabio Quartararo all have a single win at Mugello.

The winning margin for Lorenzo over Marc Marquez here in 2016 was just 0.019s, the eighth-closest finish of all time in the premier class.

MOTOGP™ WINNERS AT MUGELLO ON THE GRID

Francesco Bagnaia 3 (2022, 2023, 2024) – Fabio Quartararo 1 (2021) – Marc Marquez 1 (2014)

SPRINT WINNERS AT MUGELLO

Francesco Bagnaia 2 (2023, 2024)

FACTORIES AT MUGELLO: BEST RESULTS

GP wins Honda 16 – Yamaha 13 – Ducati 7 – Suzuki 2

Sprint wins Ducati 2

Honda ’s last MotoGP win at Mugello was Marc Marquez in 2014 from pole. Marquez has two more podiums, 2016 and 2019, both P2. 2019 is the last time there was a Honda on the MotoGP™ podium here. Yamaha ’s last MotoGP win at Mugello was with Quartararo in 2021 from pole. Yamaha have 13 MotoGP wins here, including five in a row with Rossi from 2004 to 2008 and five with Lorenzo: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016. Ducati have seven MotoGP™ wins here, with Bagnaia (2022, 2023, 2024), Petrucci (2019), Lorenzo (2018),
Dovizioso (2017); the first Italian to win on an Italian bike at the track in MotoGP, and Stoner (2009). In 2023 and 2024, Ducati scored a 1-2-3-4. Aprilia ’s best MotoGP result in Mugello is P3 with Jeremy McWilliams in 2000 and Aleix Espargaro in 2022 (part of
the run when Aprilia took four podiums in four MotoGP races in a row for the first time). In 1999, Tetsuya Harada became the only Aprilia rider so far to qualify on pole in Mugello in the class. KTM Miguel Oliveira finished P2 in Mugello in 2021, which is KTM’s best MotoGP result at the track.

EXTRA FACTS AND STATS

9 current riders have MotoGP podiums here: Marc Marquez (3), Bagnaia (3), Quartararo (2), Jorge Martin (2), Maverick Viñales (1), Oliveira (1), Joan Mir (1), Johann Zarco (1), Enea Bastianini (1).

6 have taken pole: M. Marquez (2), Bagnaia (1), Viñales (1), Quartararo (1), Fabio Di Giannantonio (1), Martin (1).

At Mugello in 2023, Brad Binder set a new MotoGP™ top speed record during the Sprint with 366.1 km/h (227.483 mph), equalled in 2024 in Practice by Pol Espargaro. Binder is scheduled to make his 100th MotoGP start at Mugello.

WHAT HAPPENS IF…

93 If Marc Marquez wins the Grand Prix race at the Italian GP, it will be his #93rd win across all classes.

89 If a Ducati qualifies in the top three, it will be the 89th consecutive GP that a Ducati starts on the front row, a run that stretches back to Valencia 2020.

75 Ducati are on a streak of 74 podiums in a row. Another will extend their own record to 75. The only manufacturer with more than 75 podiums in a row is Honda, who took 83 from the FIM GP 1993 to the Imola GP 1999.

20 Rookie Fermin Aldeguer will be 20 years and 78 days old on Sunday and would be second-youngest MotoGP winner after Marc Marquez (20 years and 63 days old in Austin, 2013), if he wins on Sunday.

8 If a rider other than Viñales (2017), Rossi (2018), Marc Marquez (2019), Quartararo (2021), Di Giannantonio (2022), Bagnaia (2023) or Martin (2024) qualifies on pole, they will be the eight different polesitter in the last eight Grands Prix at Mugello.

6 There are six riders on the grid who could take their maiden MotoGP win this weekend: Raul Fernandez, substitute rider Takaaki Nakagami, Pedro Acosta, and rookies Ai Ogura, Somkiat Chantra and Fermin Aldeguer.

1 KTM and Aprilia riders could give their factory a maiden premier class win in Mugello.