Overview
- Saturday qualifying at Mugello produced a new lap record as Marco Bezzecchi took pole with a 1:43.921, the first sub‑1m44s time at the track.
- Fabio Di Giannantonio set the weekend pace in practice, topping all three sessions with a fastest Friday time of 1:44.808 and remaining the form rider into Saturday.
- Marc Marquez was cleared to ride after surgery that removed damaged screws and a bone fragment compressing his radial nerve and he advanced into Q2 on his return.
- Alex Marquez and Johann Zarco remain sidelined from injuries suffered at Catalunya and are replaced at Mugello by Michele Pirro and Cal Crutchlow respectively.
- Race‑direction moves and rider views converge on first‑corner safety: holeshot devices are scheduled for a ban next season even as analysis links Turn 1 incidents to about one in five race‑miss injuries since sprints began.