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Jorge Martin overtook Francesco Bagnaia connected the last thigh to snatch triumph successful the sprint contention astatine the United States Grand Prix and instrumentality the MotoGP title pb connected Saturday (March 28, 2026).
The Aprilia rider came from seventh connected the grid to triumph a melodramatic sprint successful which Marco Bezzecchi crashed retired and Marc Marquez besides slid disconnected the track, taking pole-sitter Fabio Di Giannantonio with him.
Bezzecchi, who led Martin by 11 points successful the riders' standings heading into the weekend, was moving successful 2nd spot earlier crashing.
Martin edged 1 constituent up of his teammate heading into Sunday's (March 29) main contention astatine the Circuit of the Americas.
"I'm truthful happy, it's the archetypal clip I've won present successful MotoGP, it's fantastic," said Martin aft a record-extending 17th sprint triumph successful MotoGP, but archetypal with Aprilia.
"It was risky to take the mean tyre, but it paid off. This triumph means a batch to me, convey you truthful overmuch to my squad who did a large job."
Reigning satellite champion Marquez, starting from sixth place, crashed connected the opening thigh and took retired Di Giannantonio.
Bagnaia led for astir of the sprint but failed to adjacent it retired arsenic Martin, the 2024 satellite champion, scythed his mode done the field.
Bezzecchi, who has won the past 4 MotoGP main races dating backmost to past season, failed to decorativeness for the 2nd clip successful 3 sprint races this campaign.
Spanish youngster Pedro Acosta stayed retired of occupation to decorativeness third.
