Top 3 Tissot Sprint Moments 🤩 | 2026 US GP

Lights out and racing in the sprints here in Texas. A brilliant start from that pole position by Fabio DiGelantonio. Trying to nick the inside line though. Going both Acosta and Bersagli. Ultra-aggressive on the inside as they climb the hill. He's reigning world champion, Marc Marquez. Acosta, Acosta properly cleans out DiGelantonio there. DiGelantonio pushed out wide. He was leading, he's now in fourth place. After Acosta's aggression, taking full advantage. Bagnaia, who now leads. Back on the front foot and leaning on Marquez. Just as they did, what, six days ago in the Brazilian Grand Prix. This is brilliant. Counterattacking by Fabio DiGelantonio. He is once again going toe-to-toe with Marc Marquez. How many rides have put Marquez through that corner here in Austin down the years? Not many. Full power, did you? And here comes Marc Marquez on the inside of DiGelantonio. He's gone down! And Marc Marquez. Well, these two had close combats last weekend in Brazil. This time it's too close for comfort. Marc Marquez, trail braking on the inside line. Too tight on the inside. Just asking too much of that medium front tyre. And on the outside, well, DiGelantonio has had some wretched luck on this first lap. He got pushed out wide at Turn 1 by Pedro Acosta. Lost the lead, dropped back down to fourth. And in this early battle with Marc Marquez, he's the innocent victim. Caught on the outside. Nowhere to go. DiGelantonio has remounted. Here we go then. Marc coming from a long, long way back. He's just darting to that inside line. Picks up Fabio DiGelantonio. And as he trail brakes in, locking the front. Down he goes, losing the grip. And on the outside with nowhere to go. Martin, brilliant. That is the textbook move. What a play that is on the inside of Mir. Up the hill into the first corner. Had the inside line. He got the drivers. They climbed up the hill. Nothing Mir could do about that. Now Martin is going to strike. There is nothing at all that's wrong with that. A brilliant top end on an RSGP once he starts going through that gearbox. Martin just gobbles up Acosta on that run down into Turn 12. We now see Bettecchi having a look at the inside of Tuan Mir to take 4th place. And here now, the Aprilia. Look at the Aprilia. I mean, KTM previously, well, they have got the history books show. They've got the fastest Grand Prix motorcycle ever. 366km down the start-finish straight in Mugello. But that Aprilia has got some serious poke, hasn't it? When it gets wound up through 4th, 5th and 6th gear. There's nothing that Acosta can do. He is completely defenseless. And here comes Bettecchi on the inside of Martin. Down the hill into Turn 11. Classic block pass there. Martin just tried to maybe try on the cutback to get back on through. But this has been coming. Bettecchi has mentioned he was quite a lot faster over the last 2 or 3 laps than Jorge Martin. Martin, though, trying to fight fire with fire. Not going to be close enough, though, to retaliate on the brakes into Turn 12. Oh, he's gone down. I was just about to say, on the brakes. Marco Bettecchi. We saw the rear tyre lift in the air as he was braking so, so hard. Down into Turn 11. Oh, this just shows what pressure can do to you. With Martin right on his rear tyre. Did he just get a sense that maybe he was going to close in on Pekka Bagneier? It was out of shape. We saw brilliantly the onboard from Jorge Martin. Called it when we saw the rear tyre in the air. Overload in the front. And Marco Bettecchi, head in his hands. He has made another massive mistake. And now a whole bunch more Saturday points go begging as best crash he's had a second. Do you know what? Jorge Martin's going to win this. He is all over Pekka Bagneier. Pekka Bagneier is running out of grip on that soft rear tyre. It has been a tactical masterstroke. Surely by Jorge Martin. Wow! What a performance by the factory. You can see the wheelspin that Bagneier's getting. If Jorge Martin takes this, he'll take the lead in the MotoGP World Championship after the Kota sprint. Pekka Bagneier needs the widest Ducati GP26 he's ever ridden to hold this on the final half of the lap. He has not won a sprint since the Sepang Grand Prix in Malaysia at the end of 2024 when he was knocking on the door of winning the World Championship this year. Just look at the top speed that the Aprilia has. Side by side. He'll go on the brake. He's there with Bagneier. Bagneier tries to top it out on the brakes. Jorge Martin, no sensing. Oh! There's contact there. They both stay upright. Unlike Marquez and Antonio on the first lap. I think he wants this. Jorge Martin, late, late drama here in Kota. He is about to lead the MotoGP World Championship. All of the pain, all the nightmare, all the horror of 2025 is going to be forgotten in an instant if Jorge Martin gets this job done. He now comes through Turn 16, 17 and 18. The long right-handers. The long journey is about to end. Back to the top step of the podium here for Jorge Martin. He's going to take a gold medal in this sprint here in Austin. What a pick! What a decision to run that medium rear tyre. It is going to pay off handsomely. That's for the first time in 18 months. Jorge Martin is back on top in the MotoGP World Championship. He can't quite believe it, can he? As Jorge Martin wins an epic sprint here in Austin, Texas. A golden afternoon. He moves back out on his own once again. His 17th sprint win and Jorge Martin, unbelievably, is back on top of the MotoGP World Championship.