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Marc Márquez won the delayed MotoGP sprint at Goiânia — holding off Fabio Di Giannantonio with Jorge Martín third, Martín’s first podium in 500 days — a comeback win that’s Márquez’s first in six months and has the title fight shifting again; Pedro Acosta now leads the championship by a single point over Marco Bezzecchi. (x.com) (motorsport.com)
A waist‑deep sinkhole opened on the start‑finish straight at Goiânia after qualifying, with FIM safety officials blaming recent heavy rain and soil movement and local reports linking the collapse to a burst drainage pipe. ( ) Organisers pushed the Sprint back from 15:00 to 16:20 local time — an 80‑minute delay — while crews cut out a roughly 2m x 1m rectangle of asphalt and filled the depression with gravel before racing resumed. ( ) The on‑track turning point came when Fabio Di Giannantonio drifted wide exiting Turn 12 after leading the majority of the 15‑lap Sprint, allowing Marc Márquez to pass alongside out of Turn 12 and take the lead with three laps remaining. (motogp.com) Qualifying earlier had been chaotic: Q2 produced multiple crashes (Francesco Bagnaia, Pedro Acosta and Marc Márquez among those down) yet Di Giannantonio set pole with a 1:17.410 to head the grid. ( ) Jorge Martín’s podium at Goiânia was his first top‑three finish since the Solidarity Grand Prix in Barcelona on 17 November 2024, marking his return to the rostrum after more than a year without a podium. (motogp.com) The standings tightened after the Sprint: Pedro Acosta leads on 33 points, Marco Bezzecchi sits second on 31, Jorge Martín is third on 25, Raúl Fernández fourth on 23 and Ai Ogura fifth on 22; Marc Márquez climbed to sixth with 21 points. (foxsports.com)
