Francesco Bagnaia won this Saturday (the 20th) the Sprint of the Czech GP, the ninth round of the 2026 MotoGP season, held at the Brno circuit. The Ducati rider seized the lead at the start, by overtaking Ai Ogura, and stayed in first place throughout the ten laps of the sprint, securing the top spot in the weekend’s short race.
Second place went to Ogura, rider of a Trackhouse Aprilia, who finished 0s241 behind Bagnaia. Marc Márquez, aboard the other factory Ducati on the grid, completed the top-3, while Fabio Di Giannantonio, on a VR46 Ducati, crossed the line in fourth. Jorge Martín, riding for Aprilia, rounded out the top five.
Raúl Fernández took the other Trackhouse Aprilia to sixth place, finishing just ahead of Enea Bastianini, seventh on a Tech3 KTM. Fermín Aldeguer, aboard a Gresini Ducati, was eighth, ahead of Brad Binder, ninth on a KTM. The top ten was completed by Joan Mir, riding a Honda.
The Brno race came to an early end for Diogo Moreira. The LCR Honda rider started from sixth and jumped to third early on, but already on the first lap he crashed at turn 12 while pressuring Ogura for second place, abandoning the race. Maverick Viñales, Pedro Acosta, Luca Marini, Marco Bezzecchi and Cal Crutchlow were other riders who crashed.
The Czech GP would be held this Sunday (21), with the start scheduled for 9:00.
See how the race unfolded
The race began with Francesco Bagnaia taking the lead by overtaking Ai Ogura, who fell to second. Diogo Moreira moved from sixth to third, ahead of Marc Márquez and Fabio Di Giannantonio, who completed the top five at the start of the race. At turn 12, however, the Brazilian and Maverick Viñales, in separate incidents, crashed and retired from the race.
Bagnaia maintained the lead of the race, closely followed by Ogura, while Márquez struggled with the approach of Di Giannantonio. Championship leader Bezzecchi appeared in fifth, while Jorge Martín was making a comeback and sat seventh, behind Pedro Acosta in the third of the ten laps of the race.
Ogura could not keep up with Bagnaia’s pace, who opened a nine-tenths gap on the fourth lap of the contest. At halfway, the top five were spread out, with Di Giannantonio appearing closer to Márquez, four tenths of a second in favor of the Spaniard on the Ducati. Further back, Martín pressed Acosta for sixth place.
On the sixth lap, Bagnaia began to see Ogura closing in, shrinking the gap to five tenths. In the same lap, Acosta crashed alone with the KTM at turn 11 in the Czech circuit, taking him out of contention. Márquez, in third, started to close in on the Trackhouse rider to challenge for second place at the Brno circuit.
On the eighth lap, Luca Marini also crashed the Honda at turn 13, becoming another retiree. In the lead group, Bagnaia, Ogura and Márquez drew closer to duel for the first place, while Bezzecchi crashed on the penultimate lap, also exiting the race. The race entered the final lap with the top three together.
Bagnaia went on to win the race, with Ogura in second and Márquez in third. There was still time for Cal Crutchlow to crash.
