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Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi extended his cleanable commencement to the twelvemonth by winning the United States Grand Prix successful Austin connected Sunday (March 31, 2026) for his third consecutive triumph of the twelvemonth and 5th consecutive dating backmost to past season.
Bezzecchi led each 20 laps astatine the Circuit of the Americas wherever he crossed the enactment 2.036 seconds up of teammate Jorge Martin. Pedro Acosta, who finished 3rd successful Saturday's sprint earlier a penalty dropped him to eighth, rounded retired the podium.
Bezzecchi, racing a time aft helium failed to decorativeness a sprint for the 2nd clip this play aft a crash, besides reclaimed the pb successful the MotoGP standings with 81 points, 4 points wide of Martin who won Saturday's sprint race.
With the win, Bezzecchi became the 3rd Italian rider to triumph 5 in a enactment aft Hall of Famers Valentino Rossi and Giacomo Agostini. He is besides the archetypal rider to triumph the archetypal 3 grands prix of the play since Marc Marquez successful 2014.
"This is amazing. I mean, I wasn't expecting a time similar this aft yesterday, due to the fact that it wasn't casual and I made a mistake, and it was important to bounce back," said Bezzecchi.
"Luckily, my team, my squad, was very adjacent to me, and they gave maine the motivation to effort to bounce back.
"But anyway, I wasn't expecting a contention similar this, and I'm truthful blessed — I truly can't picture my emotion close now. Very, precise blessed and proud."
Polesitter Fabio Di Giannantonio of VR46 Racing finished 4th portion defending Austin champion Francesco Bagnaia of the Ducati Lenovo Team was 10th.
