It's back-to-back Spanish GP wins for the #73 on home turf as early drama unravels for the reigning World Champion
Back-to-back MotoGP victories at your home Grand Prix are what dreams are made of, and Alex Marquez (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) has achieved just that after the #73 rolled out a stunner in a dramatic 2026 Estrella Galicia 0,0 Grand Prix of Spain that saw Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo Team) crash out of second place on Lap 2. Marco Bezzecchi’s (Aprilia Racing) record-breaking victory run is now over, but the Italian’s P2 is another fantastic result for the championship leader as compatriot Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) earned P3 to jump up to third in the standings.
OPENING LAPS: MM93 OUT EARLY
Marc Marquez got away from pole perfectly and grabbed the holeshot with both arms as the field dived into Turn 1, with Bezzecchi getting a stormer – unlike in the Sprint – from the second row to jump to P2. And Alex Marquez got a corker too. The 2025 Spanish GP winner was P3, then P2 behind Marc Marquez after the Gresini Racing star shoved his way past the Championship leader at Turn 9.
Alex Marquez didn’t wait long to pounce on Marc Marquez either. Turn 6, the Dani Pedrosa Corner, saw the #73 shove his way past the reigning World Champion. Now, could Marc Marquez respond?
Well, we found out the answer very quickly. Huge drama unfolded for the #93 on Lap 2 as Marc Marquez crashed out at the rapid right-hand turn of 11. The front-end washed away, and there was no chance of saving that one, as the home-crowd hero suffered a very early DNF in Jerez for the second year running. Thankfully, the Spaniard was up on his feet and OK, but that’s another early dent to the Champion’s title charge.
ALEX MARQUEZ STRETCHES HIS LEGS, ACOSTA LOSES GROUND
Back on track, Alex Marquez was lapping 0.6s ahead of Bezzecchi, as we jumped on board with Di Giannantonio as he passed Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing) for P3 on Lap 5. At this stage of the Grand Prix, Diggia was a second behind compatriot Bezzecchi.
A small but costly mistake from Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) at the start of Lap 6 saw the Spaniard slip to P9 from P7 following contact with Raul Fernandez (Trackhouse MotoGP Team), leaving the #37 one place ahead of Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) and without some front-end aero. That was then one place behind Pecco, as the Italian made a move stick on the KTM rider at the final corner.
Up front, Alex Marquez was beginning to stretch his legs. At the start of Lap 10, his lead 1.6s over Bezzecchi, who in turn had Di Giannantonio lingering 0.6s behind. Martin remained well within reach of the podium battle too; the 2024 MotoGP World Champion was a further 0.6s back in P4, with Johann Zarco (Castrol Honda LCR) a second back from the second Aprilia in P5.
PECCO DNFs
At the start of Lap 12, misery was compounded in the factory Ducati box. Pecco encountered some form of problem with his Desmosedici, and the sight of the #63 pulling into the pitlane signalled a nightmare Sunday in Jerez for the top two in the Tissot Sprint.
CONTROLLING IT TO THE FLAG
While there was disappointment in the red corner of Ducati, there was pending delight in the blue corner. Alex Marquez’s lead was now just under two seconds at the end of Lap 15 of 25, with Di Giannantonio 0.9s away from second place Bezzecchi.
With six laps left, it was as you were at the front. Alex Marquez was controlling the gap back to Bezzecchi, and the same can be said for the title race leader in his attempts to keep Di Giannantonio at bay.
While the podium positions were looking settled, the battle for the top six wasn’t. And Zarco, with three laps to go, got a face full of Trackhouse – first from Fernandez, then from Ai Ogura. Two classy moves pulled on the impressive Frenchman.
10 seconds up the road from that particular fight, Alex Marquez had 4.4km left to arrive at the chequered flag as a Spanish GP winner for the second year in a row. A wave to the jubilant, packed hillsides through Turns 9 and 10 capped off a phenomenal Sunday for the recently turned 30-year-old, as Alex Marquez clinched a dream Jerez win again.
This time, it was Bezzecchi who finished P2 to Alex Marquez. The unbeaten Sunday run ends, but that’s another brilliant result for the Italian and Aprilia. A treasured 20 points means Bez’s lead in the championship extends to 11 over fourth place Martin, and sandwiched between the Aprilia duo was the in-form Di Giannantonio, who bagged a second podium of the season. That moves the Italian up to P3 in the World Championship, with Martin 19 points clear in P2 after another great weekend.
The winner of that P5 battle we mentioned? Ogura. The Japanese rider shoved past his teammate at Turn 6 on the final lap to pick up 11 points, with Fernandez P6 on home turf. Zarco’s strong weekend ended with a solid P7, as Enea Bastianini (Red Bull KTM Tech3) acted as the lead KTM rider on Sunday with a P8. Fermin Aldeguer (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) crossed the line in P9 as his recovery continues, and a frustrated Acosta had to settle for P10. Not what the #37 had ordered.
Acosta’s teammate Brad Binder was one place and 0.3s behind in P11, with Sprint podium finisher Franco Morbidelli (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team), Luca Marini (Honda HRC Castrol), Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP), and Joan Mir (Honda HRC Castrol) – after a double Long Lap penalty for the 2020 World Champion – closed out the points-paying positions.
We’re never short of drama and talking points in MotoGP, are we? Ducati’s dry spell ends thanks to Alex Marquez’s heroics, but it’s a bittersweet Sunday for the factory after Marc Marquez loses more crucial ground in the championship chase to Bezzecchi and Aprilia. Check out FULL RESULTS HERE and tune in for more MotoGP on Monday as the grid heads back out for a one-day test.
Agius fends off Gonzalez and Veijer to clinch back-to-back wins
Back-to-back wins for the first time? That’ll do very nicely for Spanish GP winner Senna Agius (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) after a tense, three-way fight for the win. World Championship leader Manuel Gonzalez handed the team a dream 1-2 as the Spaniard stands on the Jerez rostrum for the second year in a row, as polesitter Collin Veijer (Red Bull KTM Ajo) earns his first podium of 2026 in P3.
The holeshot went the way of 2025 Spanish GP winner Gonzalez, but Veijer didn’t hang around long and attacked to take the lead at Turn 6. David Alonso (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) got a horrible getaway and went from the second row to P17 on Lap 1, with Austin winner Agius climbing to an early P2.
Alonso moved up to P11 by the end of Lap 1, and another rider moving up the order was Barry Baltus (REDS Fantic Racing). Having got past front row starter Alex Escrig (KLINT Factory Team), the Belgian was P5 behind Veijer, Agius, Gonzalez, and Alonso Lopez (ITALJET Grresini Moto2), with Alonso P8 at the end of Lap 4.
Lap 5 saw the lead change hands four times as Agius and Veijer engaged in battle, and up at Turn 1 on Lap 6, there was contact between Alonso, teammate Daniel Holgado, and Escrig in the scrap for sixth. That cost the Colombian four places, with the #80 and Holgado now P10 and P9.
More drama then arrived. Baltus, one of the pre-race favourites, crashed out while sitting in P4 at Turn 6, and then the rider who was promoted to P4, Lopez, crashed moments later. Surely now, it was a three-rider fight for the win. Veijer, Agius and Gonzalez were locked together, four seconds up the road from Escrig.
On Lap 14, a big move came for Agius at Turn 8. The Australian carved up the inside of the Dutchman for the lead, and a corner later, home hero Gonzalez demoted Veijer to P3. Was that the race-winning move for Agius?
Having led for a few laps, Agius couldn’t fully shake off the Gonzalez and Veijer threat. At the beginning of Lap 19 of 21, Agius’ advantage was just under three tenths, with Veijer a further 0.4s in arrears, and heading onto the final lap, it was pretty much as you were.
Could Gonzalez reel in his teammate, and did Veijer have anything left? The answer was no. Agius had threatened to do this all weekend, and for the first time in Moto2, the Australian secured back-to-back victories. Gonzalez and Veijer completed the podium, with that P2 seeing the Spaniard hold onto the championship lead.
Alonso rolled out some magnificent pace to finish just two seconds off the win in P4, with the Colombian ruing his awful start to the Grand Prix, and the contact with Escrig and Holgado. Celestino Vietti (Beta Tools SpeedRS Team) also unravelled a great race to finish P5, with Daniel Muñoz (Italtrans Racing Team) completing the top six.
Izan Guevara (BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2) came from P12 on the grid to finish P7, with Agius jumping ahead of the Spaniard into P2 in the standings.
Tony Arbolino (REDS Fantic Racing), Escrig and Ivan Ortola (QJMOTOR – GALFER – MSI) rounded out the top 10 ahead of eleventh place Holgado, who slips to P5 in the title race. Ayumu Sasaki (Momoven Idrofoglia RW Racing Team), Deniz Öncü (ELF Marc VDS Racing Team), Filip Salač, and the Czech’s OnlyFans American Racing teammate Joe Roberts were the final points scorers in Jerez.
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Quiles pulls the pin for home glory, last corner showdown for P2
An epic battle in Moto3 saw the return of Maximo Quiles (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) to the top of the podium as he took a second win of the year, this time at home in Jerez. The #28 had to fight hard before pulling clear in the closing stages, whilst the fight for second saw rivals Adrian Fernandez (Leopard Racing) and David Muñoz (LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP) go head-to-head on the final lap, eventually going to the #31 ahead of his returning compatriot.
Sweeping into the holeshot, David Muñoz hit the front but it didn’t last long as Quiles grabbed the lead back at Turn 8 to lead the opening lap. Disaster before the opening lap even started for Leo Rammerstorfer (SIC58 Squadra Corse) who couldn’t get off the line, whilst Matteo Bertelle’s (LEVELUP-MTA) best weekend of the year ended in the Turn 1 gravel.
On Lap 6, Muñoz’s early charge to Quiles saw him joined by Adrian Fernandez who forced his way into P2, whilst a lap later, he took over the lead from Quiles. Behind, Marco Morelli (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) chased in P4, having dropped Alvaro Carpe (Red Bull KTM Ajo) and a big battle over fifth. Further down the order, COTA winner Guido Pini (Leopard Racing) crashed out and was followed a lap later by Nicola Carraro (Rivacold Snipers Team).
Heading onto Lap 15, Quiles hit the front again at Turn 1, taking over the reins of the Grand Prix whilst at Turn 6, Fernandez was shuffled back to third as Muñoz came on through. Quiles was pulling the pin, the #28 looking to establish his authority on the Grand Prix and instantly dropped the pace from mid-1’45s to high-1’44s. Muñoz was sticking with him whilst Fernandez was keeping in touch with both in P3.
However, with three laps to go, a mistake by Muñoz at Turn 1 saw him drop more than half a second back from Quiles, giving him an uphill struggle to try and get on terms with the Championship leader. A lap later and it was a battle for P2 with Fernandez and Muñoz now joined by Morelli, who had put in a mega performance.
Last lap time and it was an Aspar 1-2 with just 4.428km to go. Fernandez sat third with rival Muñoz climbing all over him but the scrap for the final podium positions was going to go until the last corner. An epic fight, that saw them swap paint at Turns 6, 8 and 9, entered the last sector and despite Muñoz’s best efforts at Turn 13, he was beaten in the drag race to the line by Fernandez who clinched second whilst Morelli was fourth. Up front, no catching Quiles who took a second win of 2026 in his first Grand Prix weekend at Jerez. A remarkable Grand Prix by all three as Spain locked out the podium at home.
Behind, Carpe took fifth ahead of Veda Pratama (Honda Team Asia) whilst Valentin Perrone (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) was 7th, followed home by David Almansa (LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP), a season-best performance by Jesus Rios (Rivacold Snipers Team) and Joel Esteban (LEVELUP-MTA) who completed the top ten.
A classic through and through! Check out full results here for all the scorers, and make sure to come back for more from Le Mans in two weeks.