Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia held off pole sitter Ai Ogura to win the Sprint race at the 2026 MotoGP Czech Grand Prix around Brno on Saturday.
Trackhouse’s Ai Ogura scored his first MotoGP pole for the Czech GP Earlier on Saturday, however, a poor start put the Japanese rider on the back foot in the straight. Francesco Bagnaia The Ducati line came from third and took advantage of Ogura’s illness to take the lead.
Ogura seems to fall behind Aprilia Marco BezecchiAlso, but caught around outside to stay with Bagnaya. And in the end, Bezcicci was going backwards, falling from fighting back to third to sixth place. Diogo Moreira And Mark Marquez came through.
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LCR Honda rookie Moreira’s sprint at the Czech GP would only last until lap 12, but the Brazilian broke away and was immediately joined by the KTM Tech3 rider. Maverick Vinales. The pair had similar but separate incidents in turn, losing the front end of their bikes.
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Ogura He put his bad start behind him at the start to stay with Bagnaia for the sprint lead at the Czech GP. But the Ducati man soon broke his grip and came away with relative ease on the back of consecutive lap times.
Using the softer rear Michelin slipper tire on the Ducati GP26 made all the difference for Bagnaia in the first few laps of the Sprint. Czech GP. But lap 5 of 10 teased a change of pace, as Ogura suddenly swept four-tenths of a second from Bagnaia’s lead on Bruno.
Marquez was on the move as the podium runners began to gather, also taking more time than Bagnaia’s lead in third. Attempting to chase down Bezecic in fifth place in T11 was an undoing. Pedro AcostaHowever, the KTM rider collided with four laps.
A crash with three laps to go also ended the Sprint at the Czech GP early for Honda’s Luca Marini. The Italian dropped the RC213V to 13th in the gravel as he tried to compete with factory team-mate Joan Mir in 11th under pressure from Pramac Torak Razgatlioglu.
The pressure at the front was all from Ogura as the Trackhouse gem moved into Bagnaya by four tenths of a second with two laps to go. Despite having a medium rear tire on the Aprilia RS-GP, the 25-year-old can turn the bike more easily than the Bagnaia.
Beszczy endured another sorry Sprint at the Czech GP on Saturday as the 2026 MotoGP Riders’ Championship leader fell again. The Italian has now failed to finish the first nine rounds of the Sprint Races held in Thailand, America and Jerez.
A simple mistake brought Bezzecchi’s Brenno Sprint to the bottom of the lead at Turn 3, as he ran slightly wide and lost the front when trying to brake through the corner. His Aprilia team-mate Jorge Martin finished the sprint in P5 and now trails the Spaniard by just 15 points.
As for the battle at the back of the field in the Sprint Race in Brno, Pramak Razgatlioglu won the battle of the four Yamaha riders. Factory Yamaha rider Alex Rin He edged Jack Miller first to avoid finishing last, but was given an eight-second penalty for illegal tire pressures.
Elsewhere in Bruno’s paddock, Gresini Ace Alex Marquez withdrew from the Czech GP After trying to come back from injury in Brno. After training and testing fitness, he withdrew to focus on his recovery from shoulder and spinal injuries.
Full Brno Sprint Race Results at the 2026 MotoGP Czech Grand Prix
| POS | RIDER | group | GAP |
| 1 | Francesco Bagnaia | Ducati | 18:55:52 |
| 2 | No. Ogura | Tracking house | +0.241 s |
| 3 | Mark Marquez | Ducati | +0.794s |
| 4 | Fabio D’Giantantonio | VR46 | +2.905 s |
| 5 | George Martin | Aprilia | +6.404 s |
| 6 | Raul Fernandez | Tracking house | +7.440s |
| 7 | Ine Bastianini | Tech3 | +8.110 s |
| 8 | Fermin Aldeguer | Gresini | +10.195 s |
| 9 | Brad Binder | KTM | +10.984 s |
| 10 | Joan Mir | Honda | + 11.103 s |
| 11 | Toprak Razgatlioglu | Pramak | +13.497 s |
| 12 | Franco Morbidelli | VR46 | +14.942 s |
| 13 | Fabio Quatararo | Yamaha | +15.038 s |
| 14 | Jack Miller | Pramak | +16.151 s |
| 15 | Alex Rin | Yamaha | *+23.535s |
| 16 | Cal Crutchlow | LCR | DNF |
| 17 | Marco Bezecchi | Aprilia | DNF |
| 18 | Luca Marini | Honda | DNF |
| 19 | Pedro Acosta | KTM | DNF |
| 20 | Diogo Moreira | LCR | DNF |
| 21 | Maverick Vinales | Tech3 | DNF |
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