MotoGP – Assen Sprint LIVE:

For the past two weeks, everything seemed to have changed. Marc Marquez's spectacular comeback in the championship, the difficulties accumulated by Aprilia between Jorge Martin's collision in Hungary and Marco Bezzecchi's disqualification at Brno, and then the announcement of the future Marquez-Acosta duo at Ducati had gradually shifted all the attention to Borgo Panigale. At Assen, Aprilia responded in the only way that counts in MotoGP: with the stopwatch. And what a response it was.

George Martin offered himself pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix in 1'30″812. Even more, the Noale manufacturer achieved a very rare feat by monopolizing the first three places on the grid. Ai Ogura confirms his immense weekend by taking second position just 11 thousandths of a second behind Martin, while Marco Bezzecchi completes a first line entirely Aprilia at 33 thousandths.

Never Ducati had never been pushed so far back in a qualifying session this season. MartinThis performance also carries significant symbolic weight. He secured his 21st MotoGP pole position, the 42nd of his career, but most importantly, his first since Phillip Island 2024. 616 Days of waiting. An eternity for a specialist in the exercise.

This collective demonstration confirms above all the excellent health of the RS-GP. Raul fernandez continues the festival Aprilia by setting the fourth fastest time, giving the Italian manufacturer four bikes in the top four.

Aprilia stuns at Assen

Behind this armada, Francis Bagnaia Limits the damage in fifth position. The future driver Aprilia will be accompanied on the second line by Fabio DiGiannantonioas Ducati appears, for the first time in a long time, more in a position of reaction than in a position of domination.

Marc MarquezHe, however, will have to settle for seventh place. The recent winner of Brno He thought he had what it took to challenge for pole position, but two of his best laps were deleted for the same reason: exceeding track limits at turn 13. A frustrating qualifying session for the leader of the revival. Ducatiwho had himself designated the Aprilia as favorites starting Thursday.

Alongside him on the third line are Pedro Acosta, victim of a new mechanical problem on his KTM during the session, and a Fabio Quartararo particularly combative, rewarded for his passage through Q1.

The session was unfortunately marred by injuries to both drivers. Gresini. Alex MarquezAlready weakened since his terrible accident in Catalonia, preferred to withdraw from full participation in qualifying in order not to aggravate his right shoulder contusion suffered on Friday.

The situation is more worrying for his teammate Fermin AldeguerThe Spaniard, who suffered a violent crash during pre-qualifying, is suffering from a fracture of the T7 vertebra and will now have to observe a period of rest, the duration of which will be assessed in the coming days.

Behind, Franco Morbidellipenalized after obstructing Enea Bastianini On Friday, he will start only thirteenth, ahead of Diogo Moreira, Brad Binder, Alex Rins, Luca Marini, Jack Miller, Maverick Vinales, Augusto Fernandez, Cal Crutchlow et Toprak Razgatlioglu.

Beyond the starting gridThis qualification may represent the first real psychological turning point of the weekend. MotoGPAfter seeing Ducati to regain the sporting and media initiative in recent weeks, Aprilia has just reminded us that it still possesses, and perhaps more than ever, the benchmark motorcycle for a single lap. Now, the challenge is to translate this demonstration into a race victory, where championships are truly decided. Here is the first test in Sprint format. Before we discover what it has in store for us, here is a table summarizing the facts known so far.

MotoGP™ Netherlands, Assen	2025	2026
FP1	1'32.216 Marc Marquez (See here)	1'32.311 Marco Bezzecchi (See here)
Practice	1'31.156 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'31.123s Marco Bezzecchi
FP2	1'31.876 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'31.611s Marco Bezzecchi
Q1	1'31.517 Raul Fernandez (See here)	1'31.271s Fabio Quartararo
Q2	11'31.651 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'30.812 s Jorge Martin
Sprint	Marc Marquez, Alex Marquez, Marco Bezzecchi (See here)	(See here)
Warm Up	1'31.874 Alex Marquez (See here)	(See here)
Course	Marc Marquez, Marco Bezzecchi Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	(See here)
All time lap record	1'30.540 Francesco Bagnaia 2024 (See here)