Overview
- Marc Márquez won the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano on Sunday and, with a sprint‑race double, erased a 102‑point deficit to take the riders’ lead on countback at 274 points.
- Aprilia’s challenge was undermined when Marco Bezzecchi crashed on the opening lap at Misano, leaving him 33 points behind the leaders and highlighting his pattern of poor Sunday results.
- Jorge Martin finished behind Márquez after suffering an arm‑pump problem that limited his race pace and may require surgery, a development that now clouds his title defence.
- Kimi Antonelli extended his F1 championship lead with victory at the Madring, while Lewis Hamilton retired early from the Spanish Grand Prix with an intermittent brake‑by‑wire hydraulic fault that Ferrari has launched a formal investigation into.
- Mercedes accept George Russell is underperforming versus Antonelli and say they must ‘unlock’ his pace, a struggle that, together with reliability questions at Ferrari and rider fitness issues in MotoGP, is shaping team decisions on development and personnel into 2027.