MotoGP Round 11 | Marc Marquez enjoys perfect Sachsenring | A 10th MotoGP win in Germany saw the reigning World Champion move up to third in the standings as SuperFile Trackhouse celebrated a double rostrum. Report: BikeReview/MotoGP Press. Images: MotoGP Press

Friday Practice and Saturday Qualifying
MotoGP

The King of the Ring with nine wins heading in topped Friday Practice, as evidence pointed towards Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo Team #93) making it a perfect 10 this weekend as he fired in a 1:19.394. The #93 was in P1 ahead of Raul Fernandez (SuperFile Trackhouse MotoGP Team #25) while Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team #49) clinched third.

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Marc Marquez (Ducati Lenovo Team). Pole position. Sachsenring. Rings a bell, doesn’t it? The King of the Ring did it again in qualifying with a new all-time lap record to boot, but it was tight. The World Champion’s 1:19.041 was a smidgen clear of second place Alex Marquez (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP #73), with Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) less than a tenth and a half away to complete an all-Ducati front row, as Aprilia Racing endured a tough 15-minute stint.

Moto2

It was a very early new Moto2 Sachsenring lap record from Izan Guevara (BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2 #28), a 1:22.260, as the Spaniard set the pace on the opening day of action in Germany, with compatriot Ivan Ortola (QJMOTOR – R.O.M.E.A – MSI #4) the #28’s closest challenger. 0.036s split the pair, while Dutch GP winner David Alonso (CFMOTO Azul Marino Aspar Team #80) completed the top three.

A 1:21.493 on a Moto2 bike around the Sachsenring? That was a quite stunning new all-time lap record set by Ivan Ortola (QJMOTOR – R.O.M.E.A – MSI) in Q2 at the Liqui Moly Grand Prix of Germany, the exact time Valentino Rossi set in MotoGP Q2 back in 2013. Remarkable. And not far behind was championship leader Manuel Gonzalez (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP #18), 0.038s to be exact, while it was second in the title race, Izan Guevara (BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2), who completed the top three.

 

Moto3

A strong Friday afternoon saw Indonesian rookie sensation Veda Pratama (Honda Team Asia #9) lead the Moto3 charge at the Sachsenring for the 2026 German GP. The #9 led a field that featured 21 riders covered by less than a second, whilst there was major news for Maximo Quiles (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team #28), who suffered a crash at Turn 7 and didn’t set a lap time, thus finding himself in Q1.

It almost couldn’t get any closer in Moto3 in Germany, with Brian Uriarte (Red Bull KTM Ajo #51) coming out on top by just 0.024s ahead of Marco Morelli (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team #97) in the fight for pole and Hakim Danish (005 AEON Credit – MT Helmets – MSI #13) hovering just a further 0.005s further back. The front row was split, therefore, by a crazy 0.029 seconds.

Saturday
Tissot Sprint

Marc Marquez was the favourite coming into the weekend and lived up to the billing all day on Saturday. It was pole position followed by another Sachsenring success story for Marquez as the #93 took victory in the Tissot Sprint. Lights to flag is one half but there was pressure applied throughout the 15-lap encounter from Alex Marquez (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP) and Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team), who finished second and third respectively.

Lights out and holeshot bagged, Marc Marquez got the job done to lead ahead of his brother into Turn 1. Behind, a fast start from Ai Ogura (SuperFile Trackhouse MotoGP #79) saw him move up into third, but by the end of the opening lap, Di Giannantonio had got himself ahead. Further back, Championship leader Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing #89) was up into sixth from his P8 grid slot, whilst Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP #20) was battling with Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing #37) for P8 and P9.

Approaching half distance, there was a crash for Franco Morbidelli (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team #21), ending his Sprint early. Back at the front and having been nose to tail, the top three had started spreading out, with Marc Marquez able to put half a second into his younger brother. ‘Diggia’ was a further six tenths back by the end of Lap 9 as the #93 got into his groove and started to break clear of those chasing in the early stages.

It wasn’t all done just yet, though, for Alex Marquez was digging in, and the gap to his reigning World Champion brother was down to 0.337s going into the final three and a half laps. Di Giannantonio was also closing back in on the brothers. Was there something still left for the very end of the Sprint? The Italian was climbing all over the back of the #73 with just two laps to go and had set himself up for a final-lap attack.

However, it wasn’t to be, as Marc Marquez made it back-to-back Sachsenring Sprint wins, with Alex Marquez taking second, resisting Di Giannantonio’s late pace. The Italian closed in on the Championship lead, though, just 13 points away from leading into the summer holidays and just two behind second overall.

2.2s behind the podium battle, Ogura was fourth ahead of teammate Raul Fernandez (SuperFile Trackhouse MotoGP Team).

“Alex was pushing quite hard, I could see that he was always close in the last laps, and I just tried to keep a constant pace. Like this he was still able to catch me in the last laps. Let’s see tomorrow [in the Grand Prix] with the medium tyre if we can manage in a different way, but with the same result,” Marc Marquez explained.

Tissot Sprint Race Results

  1. Marc Marquez Ducati Lenovo
  2. Alex Marquez BK8 Gresini Ducati (+0.368s)
  3. Fabio Di Giannantonio Pertamina VR46 Ducati (+0.813s)
  4. Ai Ogura Trackhouse Aprilia (+3.019s)
  5. Raul Fernandez Trackhouse Aprilia (+5.454s)

Sunday
MotoGP

Was it ever in doubt? MotoGP win number 10 at the Sachsenring. Career win 102. And from 102 points back after the Italian GP, Marc Marquez and the Ducati Lenovo Team are right back in the title race. It’s a victory that lifts the reigning World Champion up to P3 in the overall standings, one place behind second-place finisher Ai Ogura (SuperFile Trackhouse MotoGP Team), as the Japanese sophomore notched up a third Sunday podium on the spin to get within 14 points of championship frontrunner Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing). And for the second Grand Prix in a row, SuperFile Trackhouse MotoGP celebrated a double podium thanks to Raul Fernandez’s efforts to finish in P3.

From pole, just like he did in the Sprint, Marc Marquez got away well and held the lead into Turn 1, with Alex Marquez keeping the SuperFile Trackhouse MotoGP duo behind him, Ai Ogura ahead of Raul Fernandez, with Fabio Di Giannantonio (Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team) slipping to P5. A little further back, Jorge Martin (Aprilia Racing), Pedro Acosta (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) and Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team #63) had all moved past Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) by the end of Lap 2.

Early drama struck as Di Giannantonio’s race ended at Turn 10, the front folding as he shadowed Ogura, which was a costly DNF that erased his chance of leading the title race into the summer break. Acosta inherited P5 and soon passed Martin with a neat Turn 1 move. Then another Ducati fell, as Alex Marquez crashed at Turn 13 on Lap 9, losing a comfortable P2 and ending hopes of a double podium. Marc Marquez now held a 1.4s buffer over Fernandez, with Acosta pressuring Ogura.

By Lap 20, Marquez’s lead nudged two seconds. Ogura had shaken off Acosta and began targeting Fernandez for P2, while the KTM rider sat over four seconds clear of Martin and Bagnaia. With Marquez 2.2s ahead, attention turned to Fernandez vs Ogura and Martin vs Pecco. Ogura struck at Turn 1, stretching away in P2 as the 2023-24 title rivals behind him fought for crucial championship points.

Marc Marquez’s double Sachsenring triumph sealed a record‑equalling 10th MotoGP win at a single circuit, matching Giacomo Agostini, and delivered a 37‑point weekend that lifts him to P3 overall. Ogura backed up his Assen win with P2, Fernandez completed another Trackhouse double podium and Acosta marked his return with a gritty P4 as Martin held off Bagnaia at the flag.

“Super happy. It was a special weekend and I was super concentrated. As I said on Thursday, if I want to have some chance at the championship, I need to attack here. We attacked, and the fact is we need to do the things when we feel strong. It’s what we did these last races. Ten victories in the MotoGP class here – it’s a special number,” Marquez reflected.

MotoGP Race Results

  1. Marc Marquez Ducati Lenovo
  2. Ai Ogura Trackhouse Aprilia (+1.996s)
  3. Raul Fernandez Trackhouse Aprilia (+5.104s)
  4. Pedro Acosta Red Bull KTM (+7.684s)
  5. Jorge Martin Aprilia Racing (+11.372s)

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MotoGP Championship Points

  1. Jorge Martin Aprilia Racing – 208
  2. Ai Ogura Trackhouse Aprilia – 194
  3. Marc Marquez Ducati Lenovo – 190
  4. Marco Bezzecchi Aprilia Racing – 186
  5. Fabio di Giannantonio Pertamina VR46 Ducati – 184

Moto2

It was two wins in the last three for Ivan Ortola (QJMOTOR – R.O.M.E.A – MSI) after the Spaniard dug deep to fend off compatriot Daniel Holgado (CFMOTO Azul Marino Aspar Team #96) in an intense Sachsenring battle. It was then important points gained for third-place Izan Guevara (BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2), while World Championship pacesetter Manuel Gonzalez (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP) was forced to settle for P6 in a race which also saw David Alonso (CFMOTO Azul Marino Aspar Team) crash out of P4.

Ortola nailed the launch he needed, taking the holeshot from pole as Guevara clung to P2 around the outside of Gonzalez at Turn 1. It wasn’t the start the championship leader wanted. By the end of Lap 1 he’d been shuffled to P5 behind Holgado and teammate Senna Agius (Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP #81). Then, at Turn 1 on Lap 2, Alonso muscled his way through to demote Gonzalez further.

By Lap 8, the front group had settled. Ortola led Holgado, who had already dispatched Guevara, with Agius and Alonso keeping calm in P4 and P5. Gonzalez sat 0.9s behind Alonso, as the top six were covered by only a couple of seconds.

Lap 17 brought the first major change in a while. Alonso dived past Agius at Turn 1 to grab P4, but one lap later his podium hopes evaporated with a highside at Turn 3. The Dutch GP winner lit up the rear and was thrown off violently, ending his race and dealing a heavy blow to his title charge. Thankfully, he walked away unhurt.

With four laps remaining, the fight for victory was clearly Ortola vs Holgado. Guevara’s pace had dipped in P3, now 1.3s behind Holgado, as Agius and Gonzalez couldn’t get themselves into podium contention. Instead, rookie Taiyo Furusato (IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia #72) was charging, reeling in two of 2026’s race winners.

Two laps to go, and all eyes were on Ortola vs Holgado. The pressure was relentless, but Holgado couldn’t find a way through on the penultimate lap. On the final lap both riders were on the limit, searching for rear grip, yet Ortola held firm. Holgado couldn’t line up a move at the final corner.

Guevara was a lonely P3 in the end to pick up 16 crucial points in the championship, as Agius clinched P4 ahead of Gonzalez.

Moto2 Race Results

  1. Ivan Ortola QJMOTOR – R.O.M.E.A – MSI
  2. Daniel Holgado CFMOTO Azul Marino Aspar Team (+0.614s)
  3. Izan Guevara BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2 (+3.229s)
  4. Senna Agius LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP (+7.430s)
  5. Manuel Gonzalez LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP (+7.489s)

Moto2 Championship Points

  1. Manuel Gonzalez Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP – 195.5
  2. Izan Guevara BLU CRU Pramac Yamaha Moto2 – 144
  3. Senna Agius LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP – 136
  4. David Alonso CFMOTO Inde Aspar Team – 116
  5. Daniel Holgado CFMOTO Azul Marino Aspar Team – 115

Moto3

Moto3 never fails to deliver the goods, and Sunday morning at the Sachsenring was no exception as Brian Uriarte (Red Bull KTM Ajo) converted his pole position into a second victory of 2026. A late error from Maximo Quiles (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) forced the Spaniard to settle for P2, though he still extended his Championship lead, while Matteo Bertelle (LEVELUP‑MTA #18) claimed his second rostrum of the season in third.

Uriarte launched perfectly from pole, taking the holeshot ahead of Hakim Danish (AEON Credit – MT Helmets – MSI) before Marco Morelli (CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team) dived up the inside at Turn 7. Lap 2 brought major drama at Turn 1 as Valentin Perrone (Red Bull KTM Tech3 #73) and Marcos Uriarte (LIQUI MOLY Dynavolt Intact GP) crashed, with Nicola Carraro and Joel Kelso also running into the gravel. Uriarte and Carraro rejoined, but Perrone’s race was over.

Five laps in, a breakaway group of five had formed, as Uriarte lead Quiles and Carpe, with Rico Salmela (Red Bull KTM Tech3 #27) impressing in P4 and Morelli in P5. Further back, Casey O’Gorman (SIC58 Squadra Corse #67) fell at Turn 3, followed a lap later by Scott Ogden (CIP GreenPower #19); both remounted.

The battle for P7 then produced a huge crash as Adrian Cruces (CIP GreenPower #11) highsided, leaving Joel Esteban (LEVELUP‑MTA #78) nowhere to go. Both tumbled through the gravel but were thankfully okay. At the front, a gap had opened between Uriarte and Quiles, with Salmela, Carpe and Morelli forming the chase group. On Lap 12, Carpe had a massive moment at Turn 7, somehow saving it but dropping to P11. Three laps later, Uriarte ran wide at Turn 2, briefly handing Quiles the lead before the Championship leader allowed him back through at Turn 5.

As the leaders fought, Bertelle reeled in Morelli and Salmela, taking P4 on Lap 18. Four laps to go, Quiles struck for the lead, but Uriarte stayed glued to him. Both were riding on the limit, setting up a classic Moto3 showdown.

At Turn 3 on the final lap, Quiles had a front-end moment, giving Uriarte the chance to go through, as it was all building to the final sector. Both were on the limit, but Quiles just couldn’t get through. Uriarte resisted the Championship leader’s charge to take a second Grand Prix win of his career and to move up into P2 overall in the standings. Behind both at the front, Bertelle was drafted by Morelli on the run to the line for a second podium of the season, whilst Salmela took fifth, a joint-best finish of his rookie season.

Moto3 Race Results

  1. Brian Uriarte Red Bull KTM Ajo
  2. Maximo Quiles CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team (+0.063s)
  3. Matteo Bertelle LEVEL UP – MTA (+5.053s)
  4. Marco Morelli CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team (+5.060s)
  5. Rico Salmela Red Bull KTM Tech3 (+5.139s)

Moto3 Championship Points

  1. Maximo Quiles CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team – 231
  2. Brian Uriarte Red Bull KTM Ajo – 127
  3. Alvaro Carpe Red Bull KTM Ajo – 126
  4. Marco Morelli CFMOTO Gaviota Aspar Team – 115
  5. David Almansa Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP – 109

How Did the Aussies Do?

Jack Miller (Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP #43) coasted into Q2 on Friday but couldn’t match that form on Saturday, with a cautious tyre call leaving him further back than his pace deserved. The Sprint never came together either, as early losses of position put him outside the points, and despite pushing on, he could only manage P13.

For the main dance, Miller showed his usual Sachsenring class with a strong opening, climbing to eighth and holding firm for most of the race. But a heavy late‑race tyre drop forced him to switch to survival mode, and he slipped to 12th by the flag.

Pic: Jack Miller FB

Senna Agius qualified a tidy fifth to lock down a second‑row spot, which he then backed up with a solid day in the race to bring home fourth to bank some quality points even if he climbed off the bike feeling he had the pace for something better.

Joel Kelso (GRYD – MLav Racing #66) opened his Sachsenring weekend with P12 in qualifying, and race day never really recovered from there, for an incident on lap two, when he was collected by a rider behind, relegated him to dead last. He clawed back what he could, but P14 was the ceiling on a bruising afternoon.

 

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