Live coverage of Saturday's action at the 2026 Brazilian MotoGP at Goiania, where delays have meant the Sprint is due to start at 15:20 local time.
Fabio Di Giannantonio starts on pole position for the Sprint after going fastest in qualifying this morning. He and Marco Bezzecchi start 1-2 after coming through Q1, and after both suffered crashes this morning. Di Giannantonio went down in Q2 after setting his pole position lap, while Bezzecchi fell about 15 minutes before Q1 started towards the end of FP2.
Marc Marquez completes the front row in Brazil despite suffering his own Q2 crash and feeling the right-handed Goiania track doesn't suit his riding style.
Championship leader Pedro Acosta starts ninth and way ahead of the other KTMs who occupy the last three positions on the grid. Acosta was another Q2 crasher, going down a lap before Marquez at the same corner.
Fermin Aldeguer impressed yesterday by getting into Q2, then again this morning in qualifying itself when he finished seventh and ahead of his teammate, Alex Marquez, by one position.
Fabio Quartararo perhaps shocked more than anyone, though, qualifying fourth on the V4 Yamaha and once again proving his capabilities over one lap.
Following qualifying, a hole emerged in the track surface on the start-finish straight. It meant a delay to the afternoon sessions. The MotoGP Sprint will now start at 16:20 local time, rather than 15:00, and before the Moto3 qualifying session take place, after work was done this afternoon to repair the affected area of the track. Moto2 qualifying will now take place on Sunday morning.
Jorge Martin has spoken on the track delays in Brazil, making light of the situation and suggesting MotoGP could have even raced with the hole as it was, without repairs, because it was off the racing line.
Full story here.
It's a first win of the season for Marc Marquez in the Brazil Sprint.
Di Giannantonio runs him close in second, and Jorge Martin takes his first Aprilia podium of any kind in third.
Bezzecchi fourth, then Ogura, Quartararo, Alex Marquez, Bagnaia, and Acosta complete the points. Moreira rounds out the top-10.
Di Giannantonio still right with Marquez, but its the reigning champion that leads by a couple of tenths onto the final lap.
Di Giannantonio runs wide at turn 12 and Marquez takes the lead as we head into the penultimate lap.
Nothing separating Marquez and Di Giannantonio now, well apart from 0.3s over the line. You get the feeling Marquez is just waiting for his moment.
Crash for Vinales as well. He was up and okay.
2s now between Marquez and Martin, so it's a battle between Marquez and Di Giannantonio for the win. 0.5s between them.
Crash for Zarco at the penultimate corner.
0.6s for Di Giannantonio now and Marquez still has half of this Sprint to get it done.
Martin up to third, mistake from Bezzecchi at turn nine.
Marquez now within 0.8s of Di Giannantonio.
Marquez matches Di Giannantonio that time and the gap stays at 1.2 seconds on lap six.
Quartararo now battling for fifth with Ogura.
Di Giannantonio continues to lead, over a second now for the VR46 rider and he continues to reel off fastest laps. Remarkable pace from the Italian.
Martin the latest rider to pass Quartararo, gets it done before the line as well on the exit of the final corner.
Quartararo runs wide at turn four and Bezzecchi goes through into third place. Martin all over Quartararo now.
Marquez past Quartararo on the run into turn one beginning lap three. Di Giannantonio 0.7s clear at the front now.
Crash for Joan Mir at turn six.
Terrible first lap for Aldeguer, 7th to 18th after he span the rear tyre off the line.
Di Giannantonio leads the first lap now from Quartararo who's passed Marquez. Then it's Bezzecchi and Martin before a bit of a gap to Ogura in sixth.
It's lights out in Brazil and the Sprint is underway.
Di Giannantonio gets the holeshot from Marquez and Quartararo, Bezzecchi back to fourth.
Warm-up lap is underway in Goiania.
Four riders now on the medium-compound rear: Bagnaia, Fernandez, Razgatlioglu, and Miller.
It's been a fair while since qualifying by now. 10 minutes to go until the start, so time to remind yourself of the grid before we get the Sprint underway.
