2025 San Marino MotoGP Sprint Recap and Results

Infront of his home crowd, Bezzecchi led the paddock into Turn 1 on the outside of Alex Marquez, and after going side by side, Alex was forced to give up Turn 2 to Bez. Marc immediately looking at taking advantage, launched his bike around the outside of Alex and nearly into the back of Bez’s Aprilia. Then with the inside line, Marc held off his brother. Alex then found himself under pressure from lively Quartararo.

Bagnaia immediately slipping down the order was killing the home crowd as they then had to put all hope into Bez.

With the pace heating up at the front, Quartararo lost the front into Yamaha’s achillies heal of the weekend, Turn 2.

Bez clearly on the limit of his Aprilia started looking a bit loose and close to the edge. He was pushing really hard to open up a gap at the front, but Marc closed it up each time they got back into the left handers. Marc dropping huge gaps of up to 20m with his late braking and crazy left-hand corner speed.

After a few hot laps where the front 3 took it to another level, Bez appeared to break away. But then Bez went wide a few times and Marc went on the hunt by diving down the inside of Turn 6.

He immediately started creating a gap and it all looked like another replay of every Sprint this season. But, to the Valentino-faithful crowds delight, Marc pushed too hard on the front and washed out into Turn 15. Handing the lead back to Bez.

Alex put in a few hot laps to close the gap and go for the win but was simply not as fast as Bez.

DiGiantonio held of a late surge from his teammate Morbidelli, securing Diggia his 3rd Sprint podium in a row which now see’s him ahead in the championship by 1 point from the Italian/Brazillian.

Aldeguer had a poor start but worked his way through the pack to fight again in the top ten. He was later overtaken by Acosta, who just held off the rookie till the end. Acosta with another good finish in 5th and Aldeguer in 6th.

The first real test for the V4, piloted by Agusto, survived the race and finished in 18th ahead of Honda rookie Chantra in 19th.

Jack Miller the best of the Trident squad, could manage only 14th, but stayed on the bike, for a small win after a horrible weekend so far.

Bastianini recovered and went from 20th to finish in 10th, but no points past ninth so he’ll be hoping for more heroics in the race tomorrrow.

Bagnaia finsihing in 13th meant one of the worst outings for Factory Ducati. 0 points for the first time on a Saturday this year.

Martin moved up 3 places to finish in 8th and even overtook 2024 main rival Bagnaia on his way there. Marini ahead of him was the first Honda home in solid 7th.

Marcs 15 Sprint win streak ends in DNF (#1 or nothing) for the season. Alex finishes 2nd for his 17th runner-up trophy of 2025. And Bez gets the first non-Ducati, Sprint win since Aleix Esparago did it on an Aprilia in May 2024! Also Bez’s first sprint win with Aprilia and with his last, “I cant even remember my last (sprint win)”, was way back with VR46 Ducati.

One of the surprises of the weekend so far was F1 frontrunner, Lando Norris, spending the day with his childhood hero, Valentino Rossi, and getting to congratulate Bez first while on his cool down lap. Bez also went for a bit of Italian antics by taking a wooden leg along for a ride, even carrying it onto the podium (while the FIA tried a few times to remove it he wasn’t having it haha). Supposedly the wooden leg is from a local Italian movie where a guy carry’s around a leg the whole time and is a bit of a local joke.

Nice to see an eventful Sprint race and a bit of a battle at the front. Makes for an interesting battle tomorrow. Will Marc and Alex work together tomorrow to stop the Aprilia lead man? Strategy will have a lot to do with the result. Let’s hope for another exciting race.