Overview

• Alex Marquez won the Catalan Grand Prix by 1.740 seconds over Marc Marquez, securing his second career MotoGP victory and delivering a Ducati 1-2.
• The result snapped Marc Marquez’s seven-race grand prix winning streak that had stretched back to early June.
• Enea Bastianini finished third for his first grand prix podium on the KTM RC16 with Tech3, as Pedro Acosta’s soft rear tyre faded and left him fourth.
• Marc Marquez’s championship advantage shrank to 182 points, removing a Misano title-clinch scenario and deferring a potential seal to at least the Indonesian round.
• Saturday’s sprint turned on Turn 10’s low-grip trap: Alex Marquez crashed out of the lead, Marc inherited his 14th sprint win after a near-fall and early contact with Fabio Quartararo that he described as routine racing.