Top 3 Tissot Sprint Moments ️ 2026 Italian GP

Lights out and we're racing in the sprint here then in the Grand Prix of Italy in Mugello. It's a brilliant start by Marc Marquez on the Factory Ducati. He's already going to threaten to split the Aprilians on the run down to the first corner. Going the long way. Look at Marquez. How late is he braking on the Factory Ducati? He's going to leave. He's past all the Aprilians. He got a great start. Super, super late on the brakes. And Marquez leads from fourth. And Marco Bezzecchi was just way too cautious. Look at Marrero up in fourth place on the LCR Honda. Raul Fernandez carves up the inside of Marc Marquez. Martín also through. The Aprilians fighting back. Yeah, pushing and shoving already. Marrero fancying an attack now on Marquez in two turn four and five. And he's made it through. This is lovely by Marrero up into P3. He's gained five places already. As you drop now down through Casanova and Svelli for the first time. Magic from Marrero in Mugello. Dijan Antonio is getting ground. Bagnaia has had a shocker. He's down to ninth place. So that's Dijan Antonio up the inside of Marco Bezzecchi. The pole start is back to P6 now. Now Marc Marquez loses another one. Clearly, understandably cautious on this first lap after initially taking the lead. Now Dijan Antonio has passed him. Bezzecchi certainly is though on the inside of Marc Marquez. It's going to be close. They're going to lean on each other, aren't they? Marquez is going right out of the marbles on the outside of 15. Bezzecchi eases on through. So Bezz then in recovery mode. Back up into P5. Dijan Antonio now into Arabiata 1. Does get the move done on Diogo Marrero. That's a bold move. That is a bold move down the hill into Arabiata 1. You've got to be precise. Millimetre precise to make that move. Through into the final corner on the inside of Marrero. There goes Bezzecchi. Bezzecchi's favoured that move, hasn't he? He got Marc Marquez there a couple of laps ago. This time around, it's Marrero. Gaps come down quite dramatically between Martín and Fernández through Sector 3. At the end of Sector 2, Jorge Martín was almost a second behind Ralph Fernández, your sprint leader. And out of absolutely nowhere, the gap came down to six tenths through Sector 3. And over the line, he was down to under half a second. Jorge Martín has switched into a full attack mode here, hasn't he? It's Fernández just running out of a little bit of a grip. But now, what was looking like a pretty comfortable Saturday afternoon in the Modelo Sunshine for Ralph Fernández might start to get very uncomfortable. Well, Martín's recovered half a second in half a lap. He's motoring. He's charging towards Ralph Fernández. Fernández will be getting the message on his pit board. He'll be made aware of the situation. But yeah, that was a big lap. Was that the most important and decisive lap of this sprint so far, Ron? Yeah, surely he's thinking, if I can just keep this pace I'm doing at the moment, 46.0, 46.1, that will be enough to win this sprint. Has Jorge Martín got an answer? Because Martín surely from here isn't going to be close enough to attack him down to Sandonato on the final lap. And from there, the opportunities get quite limited for Jorge Martín. He has, of course, got a Grand Prix win under his name. This, though, is a corner away as he exits Biondetti from being a first sprint win for Ralph Fernández. Track out of Puglia this weekend. I've got the special golf livery. And there's been a golfing class this afternoon between Ralph Fernández and the chasing pack because as he powers out of the final corner from the historic first of Puglia lockout of the front row, it has quite simply been a faultless and flawless Fernández who wins the Tissot sprint here in Mugello. What a moment for Ralph Fernández as he takes his first ever sprint success. He does deny Jorge Martín a 19th sprint victory. Martín does take second. Proving more than just a point today was Ralph Fernández. Questions about his long-term MotoGP future and a performance to remind everyone just how good he is today.