Marco Bezzecchi won the Qatar Grand Prix, but the Aprilia rider trails MotoGP leader Marc Márquez by 74 points with two rounds left.
Bezzecchi identified sprint results as the weak spot in his season in a post-race interview reported by Motorsport.com. He has won six Sunday races, including Qatar, but has yet to win a sprint in 2026. Márquez has won ten sprints and seven grands prix.
What Qatar showed
Bezzecchi left Saturday’s sprint without scoring and won the main race the next day. That contrast explains how he could win a Grand Prix and still leave Qatar with almost no room to make up ground in the title race.
MotoGP lists 74 points still available across the last two weekends. That matches Bezzecchi’s deficit, so even sweeping the remaining sprints and grands prix would only draw him level on points if Márquez scores none. Jorge Martín sits between them in the standings, 60 points behind Márquez.
Sources: MotoGP championship breakdown and Motorsport.com’s post-Qatar interview report.
Marco Bezzecchi at the 2025 San Marino Grand Prix (archive). Photo: René 2782 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized.
