Overview
- Marco Bezzecchi took pole at Valencia in an ultra-tight Q2 with the top five covered by 0.096 seconds, leading Alex Márquez and Fabio Di Giannantonio on the grid.
- Alex Márquez controlled the 13-lap Sprint from the start to beat Pedro Acosta and Fabio Di Giannantonio, with Bezzecchi finishing fifth.
- Francesco Bagnaia suffered a Q1 technical failure and will start 16th, compounding a point-less Sprint that leaves him six points behind Acosta in the standings.
- Stewards assigned Joan Mir a long-lap penalty for the Grand Prix after his Sprint collision that also eliminated Honda teammate Luca Marini.
- In Macau’s FIA GT World Cup, Ferrari locked out the front row with Antonio Fuoco on pole and Yifei Ye second under new torque-sensor rules and a Superpole shootout, as incidents for Sheldon van der Linde and Laurens Vanthoor shaped the order.