The Mugello round of the MotoGP championship was held this weekend and, once again, Marc Marquez (Ducati) dominated. From pole position, Marc won both Saturday’s Sprint and Sunday’s main event. His pole position was his 100th of his career, a record.
On Saturday, the usual suspects came home second and third, namely Alex Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia – both aboard Ducatis.
Sunday’s race saw Marc Marquez and Bagnaia battle fiercely during the first two laps before the Márquez brothers cleared off and left Bagnaia in third place, where he was ultimately overtaken by Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati). Bagnaia finished fourth.
Marc Marquez lengthens his championship points lead ahead of his brother Alex. For full results and points for Saturday’s Sprint race, visit the MotoGP site here. For full results and points for Sunday’s MotoGP race, visit the MotoGP site here.
If you ever imagined a MotoGP season scripted to establish a new benchmark for all-time most boring, imagine no more. I would pay little attention to a free 2026 Video Pass; I’ll not pay for it.
IMO Dorna, Ducati and modern rider aids killed MotoGP. Not intentionally, but the corpse stinketh similarly.
Rider risk still exists. And everyone who has ridden competitively knows the riders still have “alien” skills. It’s also true that the older is the subject MotoGP/GP season, the more did fans receive for their invested time, effort and money.
Modern motorcycle racing appears to point fans only toward the exit signs. 2025 demonstrates it better than any prior season.
Completely agree.
The purity of Mr Lenovos lean is difficult to enjoy with all the sponsor stickers hiding the machine.
Are the fins on his milk crate perch antennas or aerodynamic aids ?
Those fins are aerodynamic implements. When Ducati first added them there was some speculation whether they did anything or if they were just trolling the other teams but now everyone has something back there. My guess is they help to regather the turbulence behind the rider but who knows?
And yeah, those logos everywhere are pretty busy. Telling of how much $$ it takes to run these teams. Dorna saved the sport some years ago by implementing cost control rules, including the spec ECU. I hope they or Liberty (whoever is making the decisions going forward) keep that in mind, lest we see more makes and sponsors departing due to high costs / low R.O.I..
they perform the same function as the little fins you see on passenger plane wingtips.
Why would MM need another year? He had that last year. Plus it’s quite clear that Ducati designed the 2025 bike for MM’s riding style, just like Honda did for him. And just like when he was at Honda during their peak dominance, he’s the only one able to get consistent results along with his brother who has to have a very similar riding style. The rest of the Ducati pack is hit and miss. At least there’s 2027 to look forward to.
If Ducati had done what you say, they would not be occupying 1st through 5th place in the standings so they’re not missing anything.
Honda didn’t do it either, for the last few years he was there, Marc was just the only one who was able to extract competitive performance from the bike, until he couldn’t and nearly ended his career.
I think you might be confusing the’24 bikes with the ’25 bikes. The’25 bike certainly hasn’t done Bagnaia any favors.
I don’t get the “looking forward to” part of 2027. The 800 years were universally unpopular and Liberty Media plans to make MotoGP and WSB a subsidiary of Formula One. What could possibly be be good about any of that? For me, I have been watching professional motorcycle road racing flounder for 23 years and ’27 will see it obliterated entirely. Good luck trying to sell me on the idea the racing is better off now than it was in 2002 when AMA, WSB and 500GP enjoyed about equal coverage, not just here on MD, but just about everywhere. Sport bike sales have well and truly tanked and ’27 will show the motorcycle industry clip in a fresh magazine and start unloading it into its other foot. A disaster well done. Enjoy being a subsidy of the car people. All those goofy wings they have been festooning to the bikes will make great places for cup holders.
I’m looking forward to getting rid of ride height and hole shot devices, the taming (should be removing) aero. It would be nice if they got rid of most of the other electronic nannies as well. Hopefully they’ll be more even competition between manufacturers.
There is a difference between the future and the horizon. You’re talking about old AMA rules. They killed that to feed the bottomless MotoGP beat. You hope for the future is for a horizon that you will never reach.
Odd that the industry tolerates this. The 600 sport bike used to be sales king for a lot of manufacturers. Now the GP fans blame the kids who have no hope for a racing future for not stepping up and buying a pipe dream. But hey.
Modes! TFT! Nannies everywhere! What’s wrong with these kids?
They have a pulse.
I hear the guy on Sunday was Di Giannantonio. Late in the race he found a groove and got fast. Too bad he didn’t find it earlier. That would have benn something for the home crowd.
All those that said MM93 would need at least a year to come up to speed on the new ’25 Ducati, speak up.
I thought he was going to slaughter everyone on the GP24 last year. That he didn’t and now wins by meters instead of miles is a testament to how high the level of competition is now. It’s easy to forget that he was dominant on a pretty deficient Honda that nobody else could ride for a few years.