Live updates from the 2026 MotoGP Italian Grand Prix at Mugello. The Sprint is due to start at 15:00 this afternoon.
Fabio Di Giannantonio came into Saturday as the fastest rider from Practice yesterday and topped FP2 this morning as well, but the Italian was only able to qualify seventh earlier on. He said yesterday that he's riding this weekend with an "annoying" hand injury from Catalunya.
Francesco Bagnaia was second-fastest yesterday and is a three-time MotoGP winner at Mugello, although he had his own concerns over tyre consumption after Practice. The Italian was only sixth in qualifying this morning.
Bagnaia has Marc Marquez back alongside him in the factory Ducati box this weekend. The reigning champion said afterwards that his main objective yesterday was to assess the condition of the shoulder he had an operation on after the French GP. This morning he was able to be the best of the Ducati riders, qualifying fourth.
Perhaps the most surprising name to miss out on a direct Q2 position yesterday was Pedro Acosta, the Spaniard finishing 13th. Enea Bastianini, by comparison, was up in third, so Acosta explained afterwards that he would be trying to learn from Bastianini's data overnight. In qualifying, the gap between them closed and reversed, with Acosta coming through Q1 to qualify 10th, while Bastianini was 11th.
Aprilia were relatively underwhelming on the time sheets yesterday, with Marco Bezzecchi seventh and Jorge Martin eighth, and both Trackhouse bikes out of the top-10. Bezzecchi, though, perhaps had better speed than the final result suggests, after his best lap was cancelled for track limits. Martin, on the other hand, had more significant confidence issues to deal with, perhaps stemming from his crash-strewn weekend in Barcelona.
Qualifying was much better for the Noale factory, though, with a front row lockout for the RS-GP. Bezzecchi starts on pole and Martin third, while Raul Fernandez starts second.
Diogo Moreira spent his first laps at the front of a MotoGP race, a valuable experience for the Brazilian rookie.
The LCR rider admitted that he pushed too hard to be at the front early on and it cost him in the second half, but he indicated that he has few regrets about that.
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Maverick Vinales says the condition of his injured shoulder is "good", but that he is still missing strength in it, meaning he is over-compensating with his opposite shoulder.
The Spaniard's greater concern after finishing 15th in the Sprint today were some technical improvements he wanted to make on the KTM.
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Pecco Bagnaia doesn’t believe spacing the grid out further will make MotoGP starts safer
Braking too early at the first turn of today's Sprint cost Marco Bezzecchi three positions, and he lost a fourth later on on the first lap. From then, his race was run, he felt, although he was able to recover to fourth by the end.
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Andrea Iannone scored a maiden win in his debut at the Bagger World Cup at Mugello
Enea Bastianini says a 'not good manoeuvre' led to his crash out of the Sprint today.
The Italian had been running in eighth when he crashed at turn 10 and was defending from Pedro Acosta.
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Fabio Quartararo admits he’s not willing to risk on his Yamaha at the Italian MotoGP
Raul Fernandez takes the win in the Italy Sprint. Martin second, Di Giannantonio completes the podium.
Bezzecchi takes fourth, then Marquez, Aldeguer, Bagnaia, Ogura, and Acosta complete the points. Moreira rounds out the top-10.
Onto the final lap now and there's still 0.8s or so between the two leaders.
Moreira has fallen outside the points to 10th now, was passed by Acosta, Bagnaia, and Ogura in the last two laps.
Fernandez made a mistake at the same corner Bastianini crashed at. Gap under 0.5s as we enter the last three laps.
Marquez clears Moreira for fifth at turn one on lap seven.
Aldeguer closing in on those two.
Bastianini down at turn 10, Scarperia, the right-hander after the two Arrabbiate.
At the front, Fernandez maintaining 0.7s over Martin. 1.7s then back to Di Giannantonio, who still has 0.9s over Bezzecchi.
Morbidelli has also crashed.
Bezzecchi clears Moreira at the final corner, he's about a second behind Di Giannantonio now and three seconds off the lead.
Fernandez continues to lead and is pulling away a bit from Martin.
Di Giannantonio cleared Moreira at the first Arrabbiata on that lap.
Fernandez leads Martin at the end of lap two. They're both on the medium rear tyre.
Bezzecchi passed Marquez for fifth at the final corner.
Moreira holding onto third ahead of Di Giannantonio.
Di Giannantonio pushes Bezzecchi back to sixth at turn six.
It's lights out in Mugello and we are underway for the Italian MotoGP Sprint.
Marquez leads at turn one, Bezzecchi was super-cautious on the brakes and dropped to fifth.
Fernandez and Martin pass Marquez at the first chicane, then Moreira passes him at turn four.
Riders are off on their warm-up lap ahead of the Mugello Sprint.