Marco Bezzecchi delivered an unforgettable performance at the 2026 Italian Grand Prix in Mugello, securing a stunning home victory for Aprilia. Witness the best overtakes, intense battles, dramatic moments, and the biggest highlights from one of the most exciting MotoGP races of the season. Aprilia shocked Ducati on their home circuit as Jorge Martin completed an incredible 1-2 finish for the Noale factory.
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00:00Of course, you know, but yeah, it should be a good one for us today.
00:03Have a good one.
00:06Oh, the three in front row there for the first time in my GP history.
00:10Yeah, it's a key for Fernandes from Martín.
00:12Then we have Mark Marquez, Aldegar, and Pagniay on an old Ducati row two.
00:16Gian Antonio, the man, Borrero, to third from.
00:19And Maren, the mobbedelli ninth, completing row three.
00:21Pedro Acosta, first KTM.
00:23He's ahead of Enea Fraschini, who crashed out of the sprint yesterday.
00:26Alex rinked the first Yamaha in the group in 12.
00:28Ayagura 13th from Brad Binder and Juan Mir.
00:32Jack Miller, Fabio Quattararo, and Maverick Vigiales,
00:34all promoted up a place by the three-place penalty for Luca Marini.
00:38Today, a prettiest day.
00:40So far, it has been the New Orleans factories weekend here on home soil.
00:45They've seen a new all-time top speed record of nearly 370 kilometers an hour.
00:50There was a blistering pole addition from Marco Bessecki yesterday.
00:53The first ever 143 lap of this Magellan circuit.
00:57And they won the sprint yesterday with track-ass racing's Val Fernandes.
01:02Paccati have locked out the podium in our last three Italian Grand Prix.
01:07Do you feel that's going to be some task for the Bologna factory to continue that golden run?
01:14And in front of a record crowd in beautiful conditions,
01:19Grazie Mugello, Grazie Italia.
01:22Once again, we have a record crowd here.
01:25And it's really one to win.
01:26Who's going to win, though, here in Magello 2026?
01:29It's right out of a blazing here in Magello.
01:32In by the GPs, a great start from pole position by Marco Bessecki.
01:37Hitting away too strongly with Ralph Fernandes.
01:39They're going to try and go the long way around the outside.
01:41Bessecki, you know, is going to be much, much stronger on the break.
01:43And along went down to San Donato.
01:44Oh, Fernandes goes wide.
01:46Ralph Fernandes goes really, really wide.
01:47And I think Martine's got through on bears.
01:49Made a complete mess of that.
01:50Martine has got through.
01:51It's a brilliant one-two.
01:52It's a factory Gucati, three-four.
01:54That is Pecco Bagnaglia straight up into third place.
01:57What a shocker that first corner was then for Ralph Fernandes.
02:00He went to the outside.
02:01On the outside of Bessecki, he's going straight back to him.
02:04Bit of a head shake there from Martine with a full fuel tank of fresh rubber.
02:07Onnith him as they go through four and five at a point of time.
02:10Bears then back at the front.
02:11Look at Bagnaglia shaping up two on Jorge Marti.
02:14Looking inside into Casanova and Cervelli.
02:16The Gucatis have come to fight on this Sunday afternoon.
02:18Oh, Ralph Fernandes on the front row to 18.
02:21Through the first sector.
02:22Surely he is hoping to make dream double win.
02:25Already over here in Mugello.
02:27We saw just how much Marco Bettecki wanted the track position.
02:30Wanted to be the leader.
02:31He doesn't want to be following Marti at any stage of this goal free.
02:34Does Marti try to strike back early?
02:37Down into Scarborough.
02:38Bettecki just pulling out a crack lane for two.
02:40Through the flares.
02:41Through the smoke.
02:42The Antonio's had a shocker.
02:43And now we're going to power down this start free trade.
02:46Aprilia here on Friday.
02:48They set the fastest ever recorded top speed in VGP.
02:51They go through the game.
02:52Watch Marti trying to pick up some slipstream.
02:54He's going to attack Bettecki on the brakes into Sandinato.
02:58He is.
02:58He's got the inside line.
02:59Is he going to get his stop?
03:00Because there was a big paycheck there from Marti.
03:02He's going to run in wide.
03:04Got to be careful here.
03:05When he comes back on the inside line.
03:07Mark Marquez though.
03:08He's up in the second place.
03:09That's Baniaya on the Ducati second.
03:11Mark Marquez is fourth.
03:12So it's now Bettecki at Baniaya.
03:14Can you pick up some slipstream on that factory catty?
03:16We know what an expert he is around this Mugello circuit.
03:19He is now in this next stream.
03:20Is Baniaya about to lead the Italian Grand Prix?
03:23As he goes to the left of Marco Venceki.
03:25And Baniaya does hit the front once again in Mugello.
03:28Can he get it stopped?
03:29Can he get it stopped?
03:30That's the big question.
03:31As Mark Marquez runs in a little bit hot.
03:33Pedro Acosta will run to the inside line.
03:35Acosta rubbing shoulders with his future factory.
03:37Ducati team mate through San Donato.
03:39Acosta is the fattest rider on circuit with a 1.45.563.
03:44Marquez you just know he was not going to give up that position without an almighty fighter.
03:48Mark then back up into P4.
03:49But Ralph Fernandez.
03:51Well he was 18th or 19th.
03:53He got a really good start.
03:55And he went side by side briefly with Marco Venceki on the run down to the first corner.
03:58But just in 2-2 heart.
04:01Way, way, true.
04:01He did actually well not to go ploughing into the gravel trap there.
04:05Did the number 25.
04:06But in terms of his hopes of a podium here in Mugello.
04:08Well they were.
04:09It was over at the 1 corner of this Grand Prix.
04:12Yeah the rear tyre skipped up slightly.
04:14Well there was just a draft up behind Venceki's and Friglia.
04:17And that's the sinking feeling for David Ibrubio who will have known already.
04:20From Bagnaia.
04:203.5.8 for Martin III.
04:22That's his best lap of the Grand Prix so far.
04:25The cross not broken up to attack Marquez.
04:27Only breaks on the long run down at San Donato.
04:29We saw this thing on the early part of the Grand Prix.
04:32And once again shoulder to shoulder goes Mark Marquez.
04:35And Pedro Acosta.
04:37There's a bit of ego at play here.
04:39Yeah.
04:39Walter Acosta is farting to chip away himself.
04:42In 8th place.
04:43You can see him on the PR points.
04:44He's got it on the picture.
04:44Acosta decides he's not going to wait any longer to go through on Mark Marquez.
04:48But can he hold him down this long pitch straight?
04:50That has been coming.
04:50That has been coming.
04:52You do get the impression of Mark.
04:53It's been a bit of a rolling roadblock there.
04:55Heather Cachemper.
04:56He's not going to give it up.
04:57Look at this.
04:58Liam.
04:59He just got the better drive than he's coming out of that final corner of Didmar.
05:04And Can Acosta dishes straight back into the break.
05:07His own full time.
05:08He can't.
05:08The Cachemper was a bit out of shape, wasn't it?
05:10As he squeezed a handful of break.
05:11Decelerated good luck.
05:12Almost 300 kilometers.
05:14And now he just wants to have that sweet taste of victory.
05:17Once again here in Brazil.
05:18There was Acosta just with a bit of a block pass there.
05:20He's on the inside of Mark Marquez.
05:22He's lost all of his momentum there, Didmar.
05:24With that move bike.
05:26Acosta down in the Scarborough area.
05:27Almost around the outside of him.
05:29Went Fermin Albegaer through Pelagio.
05:30He does just about hold off the 54-weight hard work there.
05:34And Mark Marquez is now under pressure from another rider who has looked up to him over the years.
05:39Fermin Albegaer on the Grissini.
05:41Who's going to try and take that tighter line.
05:42And he's going to force Mark Marquez to jump out of his way.
05:45And now Mark Marquez is down to sixth place.
05:47Look at this lap for Ralph Fernandes.
05:49He's picked up both Binder and Moreira.
05:51And he's finally got himself back up inside the top ten.
05:54The extremely aggressive.
05:55Three abreast.
05:56Three abreast they go.
05:58Didn't really have an aggressive for Pedro Acosta.
06:00As he was full gas and full power on the battery KTM.
06:04It's now Mark Marquez has got himself somehow back into P4.
06:07Here comes Aldergear.
06:08No love lost at all between Aldergear and Acosta.
06:11As they go through turns two and three.
06:13I don't know if Gerber's eyes are going to be lighting up at this one, aren't they?
06:15At the moment.
06:16Now look at that.
06:17We saw Acosta.
06:18High one 46.
06:20It's so too Aldergear.
06:20Yeah, Marquez was back in the 47s.
06:22While the Gian Antonio's last hand was a 16.3.
06:25So the Gian Antonio was clearly, obviously,
06:28what it takes to try and get a cat and mouse.
06:31Mid-race between Magnaia and Betsechi.
06:34Keeping a watching brief in third place.
06:37It's Jorge Martin.
06:38This is Binti Spagna.
06:41Nice for the Spaniard, of course.
06:42He suffered those serious leg fractures here in the 2023 sprint when he was part of LTR Honda.
06:48Alex Rindis factory.
06:49Yamaha goes hurting through the gravel trap.
06:52We saw a thump to three.
06:56I don't know if he's maybe got some kind of technical issue there.
06:59Back in the front, though.
07:0040-something hours.
07:01Back in this lead for him, Martin.
07:03The other flagged around the turn.
07:04It's back to you.
07:06Well, he dumped it at Scarferia in the sprint yesterday.
07:09And unfortunately, he's back in the gravel trap at the very same place.
07:13That's the 10.
07:15This has been a bit of a game of strategy, hasn't it, so far?
07:18Is Marco Vesechi looking content to sit on that rear tyre of Magnaia just to manage his pace?
07:24This feels like he's getting to the closest he has been.
07:26He's fast now to gobble up the space behind Pekka Magnaia.
07:29He's going to go to the inside right in here.
07:31They go side by side.
07:32Bez versus Magnaia.
07:34This is the moment, then, with 10 to go,
07:35where Marco Vesechi has decided this is his moment.
07:39So Marco Vesechi, then, back in the front here in Mochello.
07:42What have you got, Magnaia?
07:44He wasn't prepared to wait any longer.
07:46Time to make the move with 10 laps to go.
07:48And we're not in the space, what?
07:50Five or six corners.
07:52Vesechi has already gone almost three tenths of a second.
07:55That almost half a second clear of Magnaia.
07:57Through.
07:58This is a lovely move.
07:59This is a textbook move into Sandinato.
08:02Inua, once he got level with Magnaia in the break,
08:05he's only had that inside line.
08:06That was over.
08:07He was on fourth place.
08:09These two had some close combat in Borougham, didn't they?
08:12Here comes Acosta.
08:13He's got a line of movement to turn 15.
08:15He's got the inside line.
08:17That worked beautifully.
08:18Set it all up through beyond Betti 1 and 2,
08:19but you just knew.
08:21You just knew, didn't you?
08:22That firing him straight away underneath him,
08:24through the back of the corner,
08:26goes Mark Marquez.
08:27Some fighters between 93 and 37 at the front.
08:30Marco Vesechi,
08:32a 146.2.
08:33He started this lap at 0.1,
08:36four tenths of a second clear.
08:38And once again, Acosta on the inside of Mark Marquez.
08:41This time around,
08:42he's just going to make sure
08:43that you're going to stay on the outside this time around, mate.
08:46As Hawaii Martina now winds it up
08:47through the gearbox.
08:49Surely this is going to be second breaks.
08:51Surely this is going to be a fairytale 1-2 here.
08:54Bedford, you know,
08:55he's really trying to tough it out on the breaks.
08:57He knows this is coming.
08:58He really did fair play to Pecco,
09:00fighting fire with VAR.
09:02He knows that group's waiting underneath it,
09:04but he toughed it out on the breaks.
09:05Martina, though,
09:06just had a little bit stronger.
09:07Acosta has finally got three,
09:09once again,
09:09in San Donato.
09:10Is this finally Acosta
09:12potentially securing ball place?
09:1546 is in the sixth place.
09:17Once again,
09:17the Aprilia's finishing faster.
09:20This is Digia.
09:22Nice move,
09:23that lovely move.
09:24I'll get going through Arabiata 2.
09:27First back towards the group
09:28that his teammates leading.
09:29He went all in,
09:30did he nothing to lose?
09:31It's a good game.
09:31Mart Marquez has gone back
09:33to Acosta.
09:34He's going to try,
09:35he's going to lean,
09:36he's leaning on Acosta.
09:37Acosta leans back.
09:38What a battle this has been
09:40between the two Spaniards.
09:44He's still doing 46s.
09:46Only 6-6 for him.
09:47He's way quicker than anybody else.
09:48It's a real statement
09:49from Benzecki
09:50as Mart Marquez continues
09:51to annoy his future teammate,
09:54Pedro Acosta.
09:5593 versus 37.
09:56Can you get that?
09:57Jigazzi stopped.
09:58Not quite,
09:59but he's going to have
09:59the inside line,
10:00but Acosta moves through
10:01and he's like,
10:02Aguro about to stick
10:02his nose in as well.
10:04Dropping Acosta,
10:05Joe, his nose was Mart
10:06having gone wide
10:07into that first quarter.
10:08Yes, they just
10:09locking down,
10:10batting down the hatches
10:11and going,
10:12well, let's just do championship.
10:13Let's do bigger picture here.
10:14Yeah, that's lovely.
10:15On the inside of Mark,
10:17just squeezing him
10:17out to the paperwork.
10:18Going through Skytree
10:20and around the outside
10:21then goes Fabio,
10:22the Gian Antonio.
10:23So Aguro and the Gian Antonio
10:25that now sweep
10:25on the inside of Mark.
10:27I don't know if I've seen that
10:28because he's ahead and behind.
10:29I'm going to say,
10:30this is how you do it.
10:31This is how you pass
10:32Mark Marquez
10:33and make sure
10:33that he's going to be
10:34in the position
10:34to fight back once again.
10:36I agree.
10:37He's still a strong finish.
10:38He's going to attack again,
10:39isn't he?
10:40Is he going to attack
10:40the Gian Antonio?
10:41Of course,
10:41this is Mark Marquez.
10:43This is Mark Marquez.
10:44He's in his DNA.
10:45It's just a natural instinct
10:47that he was born with.
10:49He's got a pack to run
10:49the Gian Antonio.
10:50Did Gian Antonio?
10:51Well, these two
10:51have already had
10:52a few slugfests
10:53so far, haven't they?
10:55In 2026.
10:56I don't know if that was
10:57a left-legged,
10:58a apology bit of a play.
10:59between the factory
11:00and Fulnias
11:00as they ride on board
11:02with Agura.
11:02Look at that.
11:04And that Fulnias
11:04absolutely powering
11:06past Pedro Acosta's KTM.
11:07They both go sideways.
11:09They're both
11:09snaking left and right,
11:11trying to squeeze
11:12everything for a
11:13breaking performance.
11:14Well, Agura
11:15just closed the door
11:16there on Acosta.
11:18And there's something
11:18dropped off
11:19onto the race track.
11:20I don't know
11:20if it was one of those
11:21fender wings
11:22on the KTM
11:23that dropped off.
11:24I think it was,
11:24just on the front fender.
11:26As now,
11:27Gian Antonio
11:28has to make Acosta's lap
11:29even worse
11:30as he loses
11:30another place.
11:31These are the two riders
11:32on the move,
11:33motoring in these
11:34latter stages.
11:35Agura and Gian Antonio.
11:36Acosta is just
11:37running out of
11:38the most crucial phase
11:39of this Grand Prix.
11:41Well, this is,
11:42without a question,
11:43the class-leading
11:43motorcycle
11:44in MotoGP right now.
11:46This is a comfortable
11:471-2 we are looking at
11:48for the factory
11:49affiliate team.
11:51Fulnias
11:51five seconds
11:52off the race lead
11:53in third.
11:54It's going to be
11:55a two-point extension
11:56of the lead
11:57for Benceki
11:58this weekend.
11:58He lost three to Martin
11:59yesterday.
12:00He's going to gain
12:00five back today.
12:01This was Acosta
12:02who was so,
12:03so close after there
12:04to completely
12:05stifling out
12:06before Fabio
12:06to Gian Antonio
12:07as that KTM
12:08was refusing to
12:09stop into
12:10San Donato.
12:11Fortunately for both,
12:12he missed it.
12:12it felt like
12:14after the disappointment
12:15of missing out
12:15on the string
12:16coding yesterday,
12:18nothing was going
12:19to get in the way
12:20of Marco Bessicchi.
12:21They have got a new
12:21superstar to roll on
12:23from the grandstands.
12:24Ralph Fernandes
12:25easing from the inside
12:27of Aldeguer
12:28going through
12:28Corintio.
12:29This has been
12:30some fight back
12:30to be fair
12:31by Ralph Fernandes.
12:32Eight people to
12:33Antonio
12:33and for Marco
12:34Bessicchi.
12:35And it might yet
12:35still be
12:36and a brilliant
12:37look out of the podium
12:38after they locked
12:38out the front row
12:39of the grid yesterday.
12:41Acura is just
12:41taking metres
12:42out of Banyaya
12:43by the corner
12:44and Banyaya
12:45with inside
12:46to the chequered flag
12:47might lose his grip
12:47on the podium again.
12:48He is.
12:49He has got no chance.
12:50He's got no chance.
12:51Agoura's going to
12:52gobble him up here.
12:53I mean Banyaya
12:54is a passenger.
12:55He's a sitting
12:56but a light,
12:56light heartache
12:57coming in
12:58for Banyaya.
12:59Can he somehow
12:59defend
13:00and complete a podium
13:01here for Ducati?
13:02Has he got anything
13:03left?
13:05Agoura
13:06just all over
13:06the rear tyre
13:07at Banyaya.
13:08Marco Bessicchi
13:09is already in the
13:10breaking zone
13:10for the five-a-quarter.
13:11Here comes Agoura
13:12you know he's going
13:13to go on the inside
13:13of Banyaya.
13:14Banyaya tries to
13:15go defensive
13:15but here comes
13:16Agoura
13:17and for the second
13:17time in the last
13:18three Grand Prix's
13:19we're going to
13:20have a pretty lock
13:20out of the podium.
13:22Banyaya
13:22sweep to the
13:23inside line.
13:23What a battle
13:24for the marketplace
13:25on the podium
13:26but Marco Bessicchi
13:27is proof
13:28that dreams
13:29do come true.
13:31He takes a
13:32fairytale
13:33success here
13:34in the go
13:34and huge
13:35huge credit
13:36to Banyaya
13:38who does
13:38somehow deny
13:40Aprilia
13:40from an all
13:41Aprilia lockout
13:42on the front row
13:43Banyaya's late
13:44heroics
13:45do deny Aprilia
13:47an all
13:47lockout
13:47at the podium
13:48but taking up
13:49a lifelong dream
13:50as a schoolboy
13:52he would have
13:52watched
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