MotoGP 2026
Round 11 – Germany
2026 German MotoGP Race Report
Marc Marquez completed the full Sachsenring trifecta with pole position, Sprint victory and Grand Prix success, leading every lap of Sunday’s 30-lap race before taking the chequered flag ahead of Ai Ogura and Raul Fernandez.
The final margin was 1.996 seconds, but that number only tells part of the story.
Alex Marquez remained within half a second of his brother until crashing from second place, Fernandez kept Marc’s advantage around one-and-a-half seconds through the middle of the race, and Ogura produced another strong late charge to secure second.
There was also a tense battle between Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia, while Jack Miller’s eighth place slipped away when his rear tyre went away five laps from the end.
Some might describe a race in which the lead never changed as processional. For those who enjoy watching riders balance on the knife-edge between speed, tyre preservation and disaster through almost every corner, it was anything but.
Bezzecchi misses the start
Marco Bezzecchi did not take his place on the grid after fracturing his left collarbone in Saturday qualifying.
The Aprilia rider underwent surgery on Sunday morning at the University Hospital of Sassuolo, where the fracture was reduced and stabilised.
Aprilia hopes Bezzecchi may return at Silverstone, although a firmer prognosis will depend on his recovery over the coming weeks.
The remaining 20 riders lined up in warm conditions, with the track temperature measured at 42 degrees. Every rider chose Michelin’s hard front and medium rear slicks for a race in which managing the heavily loaded left side of both tyres would be critical.
Marc leads as Alex applies early pressure
Marc Marquez converted pole into the holeshot, while Alex Marquez held second and Fernandez made an excellent launch from fourth to take third.
Ogura followed his Trackhouse team-mate in fourth, while Fabio Di Giannantonio slipped from the front row to fifth.
Martin gained one position to sixth, Bagnaia climbed from ninth to seventh, and Pedro Acosta initially held eighth. Fabio Quartararo dropped from sixth to ninth, while Miller gained one place to complete the opening lap in tenth.
Alex immediately showed he had no intention of allowing Marc to escape.
The younger Marquez closed to 0.222 seconds at the end of lap two and set a 1m21.204, briefly taking the fastest lap from his brother.
Marc answered on lap three with a 1m21.088, which remained the fastest time of the race. Alex was only 0.044 seconds slower on his best lap, while Acosta’s 1m21.153 was the third-fastest time of the Grand Prix.
Fernandez remained less than seven-tenths from the leader, with Ogura, Di Giannantonio, Martin, Acosta and Bagnaia all circulating inside a tightly packed leading group.
Di Giannantonio’s Sunday unravels
Di Giannantonio had opted to use Ducati’s 2026 aerodynamic configuration at the Sachsenring, but Sunday did not provide the outcome he and the VR46 squad had hoped for.
The Italian crashed at Turn Eight during the morning warm-up, then lost the front again at the fast Turn Ten on lap four of the Grand Prix.
Di Giannantonio had been running fifth and had completed the third-fastest lap of his short race when the Ducati slid away from underneath him.
It was his first Sunday of retirement of the season and cost him dearly in a Championship battle in which he had arrived only 13 points behind the lead.
Di Giannantonio fell from third to fifth in the standings and now trails Martin by 24 points.
Acosta had already passed Bagnaia during the opening laps and then put a move on Martin at Turn One. Di Giannantonio’s retirement promoted the KTM rider to fifth, ahead of Martin and Bagnaia.
Joan Mir became the second rider to retire when he lost the front at Turn 13 on lap seven. The Honda rider had been running behind team-mate Luca Marini and waiting for an opportunity to attack the Yamaha riders ahead.
Alex crashes out of second
Alex Marquez continued to shadow his brother through the opening eight laps.
The gap had fluctuated between 0.222 and 0.455 seconds, while Alex consistently matched Marc’s low-to-mid 1m21s pace.
The challenge ended at Turn 13 during lap nine.
Alex lost the front at the final left-hander and slid out of a comfortable second place. He was unhurt but left the Sachsenring without any Sunday points after appearing capable of completing a second Marquez one-two for the weekend.
Alex Marquez
“I made a small mistake, but it was one that ultimately cost me the race and left me with zero points. I was probably riding with a little too much confidence, and unfortunately it ended in the worst possible way. After my crash in Barcelona, I never imagined I’d be this competitive already at the Sachsenring, fighting with my brother at a track like this.”
Fernandez inherited second and Ogura moved into third, with Acosta close behind in fourth.
Marc completed lap nine 1.099 seconds ahead of Fernandez. That advantage grew to 1.459 seconds on the following lap, with Ogura another 0.688 seconds behind his team-mate.
Marc manages a narrow advantage
Marquez did not disappear into the distance after his brother’s retirement.
Fernandez kept the margin remarkably stable through the middle of the race. It moved between 1.370 and 1.823 seconds from laps 12 through 18, with Marc needing to keep producing precise, consistent laps to maintain control.
The Ducati rider’s lap times from lap nine through lap 19 remained between 1m21.232 and 1m21.665.
Fernandez was generally only a tenth or two slower, while Ogura remained close enough to ensure his team-mate could not focus solely on the leader.
Marc’s advantage first moved beyond two seconds at the end of lap 19, when Fernandez lost four-tenths. It reached 2.215 seconds at the end of lap 20.
That was never enough for Marquez to relax, particularly with the left side of the tyres carrying such a sustained load around the Sachsenring.
Marc Marquez – P1
“The goal for the weekend was to attack in order to recover as many points as possible. We managed to do so on a track that suits my riding style very well. I’m happy, but not completely happy. I would have loved to see Alex on the podium given the pace he had. Now it’s time for the summer break. I’d like to rest, but at the same time we need to make a step forward with my right arm. Maybe some people have forgotten because the results have been good, but the difference between left- and right-hand corners is huge.”
Ogura turns his attention to Fernandez
Acosta initially remained within striking distance of Ogura.
Only 0.383 seconds separated the pair at the end of lap nine, and the KTM rider was still within four-tenths three laps later.
Ogura gradually broke that threat. By lap 17 he had almost nine-tenths over Acosta, allowing the Japanese rider to shift his attention towards Fernandez.
The gap between the Trackhouse riders dropped from 0.778 seconds on lap 17 to 0.530 on lap 19 and 0.421 at the end of lap 20.
Fernandez briefly steadied the situation, but Ogura surged again on lap 23, reducing the gap to just 0.093 seconds.
The team-mates started lap 25 separated by 0.078 seconds.
Ogura made his move at Turn One and completed the lap in second place, already 0.851 seconds clear of Fernandez.
With only five laps remaining, Marquez was 2.546 seconds ahead. Ogura managed to reduce that margin to 1.977 seconds on the penultimate lap, but he never got close enough to mount a genuine challenge.
He crossed the line 1.996 seconds behind Marquez and 3.108 seconds ahead of Fernandez.
Ai Ogura – P2
“Finishing after Marc in second position here is great. I feel like I did my maximum and I can’t be happier. I’m lucky that I already had some issues with the front tyre in the Sprint, so we could work on this in warm-up for the main race and it paid off. We managed the front tyre very well and had good pace until the end.”
Raul Fernandez – P3
“Before the race, nobody expected us to fight for the podium. We were thinking about fighting for the top five, so I’m really happy. If we can keep this line of work, we can always be in the top five, which is a great target. We need to keep our feet on the ground and work like this every weekend.”
It was Trackhouse’s second consecutive Sunday double podium, following Ogura’s victory and Fernandez’s second place at Assen.
Acosta takes a lonely fourth
Once Ogura had broken clear, Acosta settled into a largely solitary fourth place.
The KTM rider was 2.392 seconds behind Marquez at the end of lap ten, but tyre management became increasingly important as the race progressed.
By lap 20, Acosta was 4.296 seconds from the lead but held a margin of 4.748 seconds over Martin.
Acosta eventually crossed the line 7.684 seconds behind Marquez, securing his best result since his Hungarian Grand Prix podium.
Pedro Acosta – P4
“We were struggling with the front yesterday and it looks like we made a step. Our strategy was to push to lap ten or eleven and then see where we were with the tyres. The drop came later than we expected, so I’m happy with that, but there is still some more performance to come.”
Martin withstands Bagnaia pressure
Martin and Bagnaia spent virtually the entire race together in fifth and sixth.
The Aprilia rider had struggled to make the RS-GP turn throughout the weekend, and his pace began to fade from around lap ten.
Bagnaia closed from 0.754 seconds behind Martin at the end of lap 11 to just 0.077 seconds by lap 24.
The gap remained below three-tenths for the final seven laps, but the Sachsenring’s narrow racing line made finding a clean passing opportunity extremely difficult.
Martin made no significant mistake and beat Bagnaia to the line by 0.123 seconds.
The 11 points for fifth allowed Martin to retain the Championship lead, while Bagnaia remains eighth overall after another weekend spent fighting a lack of rear grip.
Jorge Martin – P5
“We struggled with the front for the entire weekend. I was unable to turn the bike and that cost me time on every corner. From about the tenth or twelfth lap, I began to lose a lot. I managed to keep Pecco at bay, and I knew that if I didn’t make any mistakes it would be extremely difficult for him to overtake me. These are important points, but I need to find a bit more speed.”
Quartararo finished seventh as the leading Yamaha rider. He had several moments and contacts on the opening lap before settling into a lonely race, occupying seventh from lap nine to the finish.
Miller’s top-eight run ends with late tyre collapse
Miller had started 11th and completed the opening lap in tenth.
Di Giannantonio’s retirement moved the Australian to ninth, before Alex Marquez’s crash promoted him to eighth.
Miller then held eighth through lap 25, keeping Marini, Brad Binder, Diogo Moreira and Enea Bastianini behind for much of the race.
His rear tyre finally reached the cliff on lap 26.
Miller’s lap time ballooned from 1m22.980 to 1m24.779 as Marini, Bastianini and Binder all went through. Moreira followed on lap 27, dropping Miller to 12th.
The Australian’s final lap was a 1m24.701, leaving him 26.154 seconds behind the winner.
Jack Miller – P12
“It was a really good race until the final few laps. I was able to stay with Fabio for most of the distance, but I was having to use the rear tyre a little more than the riders around me to achieve the same lap time. Once the tyre dropped, I started to struggle with grip and had to switch to a different engine map just to bring the bike home. It’s disappointing because a top-ten finish was within reach, but we showed we had the pace to fight in that group for most of the race.”
Marini took eighth and top Honda honours. The result also left him as the only rider to have scored points in all 11 Sunday Grands Prix this season following Di Giannantonio’s retirement.
Bastianini recovered from 15th on the official grid to ninth.
The Tech3 rider passed Alex Rins and Franco Morbidelli before overtaking Binder on lap 25 and Miller on lap 26. His strong late pace brought him home only 1.580 seconds behind Quartararo.
Binder held tenth despite suffering an abrupt rear-tyre drop during the final laps, while Moreira completed an impressive recovery from 18th on the grid to finish 11th.
Morbidelli, Rins and Toprak Razgatlioglu collected the remaining points.
Cal Crutchlow crashed at Turn Three during lap 22 while fighting for the final points positions. Maverick Viñales retired at the end of lap 26 as the strength in his injured left shoulder faded.
Marc reignites the Championship fight
The perfect 37-point weekend transformed Marc Marquez’s Championship position.
Marquez had been 102 points from the lead after the Italian Grand Prix. Only a few rounds later, he heads into the summer break third on 190 points, just 18 behind Martin.
It was his tenth MotoGP victory at the Sachsenring, equalling Giacomo Agostini’s ten victories at Imatra for the most premier-class wins by one rider at a single circuit.
The result was also Marquez’s 76th MotoGP victory, his 102nd Grand Prix win across all classes and his second Sprint-Grand Prix double of 2026.
Ogura moved into second place in the Championship with 194 points, 14 behind Martin.
The 25-year-old has now finished on the Grand Prix podium at three consecutive rounds, becoming the first Japanese rider to achieve that feat since Tohru Ukawa in 2002.
Bezzecchi slipped to fourth on 186 points, while Di Giannantonio is fifth with 184.
Only 24 points now cover the top five, making this the closest leading five after 11 Grands Prix in the modern MotoGP era.
Fernandez strengthened sixth place with 159 points, while Acosta remains seventh on 148 and Bagnaia eighth on 143.
Aprilia also leads Ducati by 330 points to 319 in the Constructors’ Championship, while Trackhouse sits second in the Teams’ standings after another 47-point Sunday haul.
A record 261,831 spectators attended across the German Grand Prix weekend.
Sachsenring MotoGP Race Results
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Pos
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Rider
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Bike
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Time/Gap
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1
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M Marquez
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Duc
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40m53.148
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2
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A Ogura
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Apr
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+1.996
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3
|
R Fernandez
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Apr
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+5.104
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4
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P Acosta
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KTM
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+7.684
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5
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J Martin
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Apr
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+11.372
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6
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F Bagnaia
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Duc
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+11.495
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7
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F Quartararo
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Yam
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+17.560
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8
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L Marini
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Hon
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+18.683
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9
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E Bastianini
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KTM
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+19.140
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10
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B Binder
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KTM
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+22.137
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11
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D Moreira
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Hon
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+22.280
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12
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J Miller
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Yam
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+26.154
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13
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F Morbidelli
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Duc
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+30.910
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14
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A Rins
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Yam
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+31.511
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15
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T Razgatlioglu
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Yam
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+38.122
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NC
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M Viñales
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KTM
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+4 Laps
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NC
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C Crutchlow
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Hon
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+9 Laps
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NC
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A Marquez
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Duc
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+22 Laps
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NC
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J Mir
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Hon
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+24 Laps
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NC
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F Di Giannantonio
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Duc
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+27 Laps
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Sachsenring MotoGP Event Top Speeds
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Pos
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Rider
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Bike
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Average
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Top
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1
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A Ogura
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Apr
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304.2
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305.0
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2
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D Moreira
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Hon
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302.0
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303.3
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3
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E Bastianini
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KTM
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302.0
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303.3
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4
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L Marini
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Hon
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301.8
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302.5
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5
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J Mir
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Hon
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299.3
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302.5
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6
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F Bagnaia
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Duc
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301.9
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302.5
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7
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B Binder
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KTM
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300.8
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301.6
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8
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A Marquez
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Duc
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300.4
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301.6
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9
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M Viñales
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KTM
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299.4
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300.8
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10
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P Acosta
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KTM
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300.3
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300.8
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11
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J Martin
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Apr
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299.4
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300.8
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12
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M Marquez
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Duc
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300.8
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300.8
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13
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C Crutchlow
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Hon
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299.1
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299.1
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14
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T Razgatlioglu
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Yam
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296.8
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298.3
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15
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R Fernandez
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Apr
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297.8
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298.3
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16
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F Morbidelli
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Duc
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296.1
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297.5
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17
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A Rins
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Yam
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296.9
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297.5
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18
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F Quartararo
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Yam
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295.4
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296.7
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|
19
|
J Miller
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Yam
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295.5
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296.7
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|
20
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F Di Giannantonio
|
Duc
|
252.1
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294.2
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2026 MotoGP Championship Standings
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|---|---|---|
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Pos
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Rider
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Points
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1
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J Martin
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208
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2
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A Ogura
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194
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3
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M Marquez
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190
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4
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M Bezzecchi
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186
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5
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F Di Giannantonio
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184
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6
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R Fernandez
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159
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7
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P Acosta
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148
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8
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F Bagnaia
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143
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9
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A Marquez
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87
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|
10
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L Marini
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79
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|
11
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F Aldeguer
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76
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12
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E Bastianini
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76
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13
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B Binder
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64
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14
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F Quartararo
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55
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15
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D Moreira
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48
|
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16
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F Morbidelli
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46
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|
17
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J Zarco
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34
|
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18
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J Mir
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26
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|
19
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A Rins
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21
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|
20
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J Miller
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19
|
|
21
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T Razgatlioglu
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12
|
|
22
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M Viñales
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10
|
|
23
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I Lecuona
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9
|
|
24
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A Fernandez
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5
|
|
25
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C Crutchlow
|
0
|
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26
|
J Folger
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0
|
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27
|
M Pirro
|
0
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2026 MotoGP Calendar
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Rnd
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Date
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Event
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Circuit
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| 1 |
01 Mar
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Thai
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Chang International Circuit
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| 2 |
22 Mar
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Brazil*
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Autodromo Internacional Ayrton Senna
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| 3 |
29 Mar
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US
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Circuit of the Americas
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| 4 |
26 Apr
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Spain**
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Circuito de Jerez-Angel Nieto
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| 5 |
10 May
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France
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Le Mans
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| 6 |
17 May
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Catalonia
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Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
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| 7 |
31 May
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Italy
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Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello
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| 8 |
07 Jun
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Hungary
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Balaton Park Circuit
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| 9 |
21 Jun
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Czech
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Automotodrom Brno
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| 10 |
28 Jun
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Netherlands
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TT Circuit Assen
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| 11 |
12 Jul
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Germany
|
Sachsenring
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| 12 |
09 Aug
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GB
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Silverstone Circuit
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| 13 |
30 Aug
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Aragon
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MotorLand Aragon
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| 14 |
13 Sep
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San Marino
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Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli
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| 15 |
20 Sep
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Austria
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Red Bull Ring-Spielberg
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| 16 |
04 Oct
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Japan
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Mobility Resort Motegi
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| 17 |
11 Oct
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Indonesia
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Pertamina Mandalika International Circuit
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| 18 |
25 Oct
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Australia
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Phillip Island
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| 19 |
01 Nov
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Malaysia
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Petronas Sepang International Circuit
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| 20 |
08 Nov
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Qatar
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Lusail International Circuit
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| 21 |
22 Nov
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Portugal
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Autodromo Internacional do Algarve
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| 22 |
29 Nov
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Valencia
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Circuit Ricardo Tormo
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