The biggest winners and losers from MotoGP 2026’s first three rounds

Marco Bezzecchi is MotoGP’s biggest points improver in the opening rounds of the 2026 season, while Alex Marquez has suffered the sharpest decline.

The Aprilia rider returns to Europe having pocketed 81 out of a possible 111 points from the Buriram, Brazil and COTA events.

That’s a gain of 57 points compared to the same stage last year, when he was sixth in the standings after Buriram, Termas and COTA.

Marco Bezzecchi‘s improvement is the largest on the grid, excluding team-mate Jorge Martin, who has scored 77 points this season but missed the entire start of last year due to injury.

The Italian could have extended his advantage further, having lost a potential 24 points through Sprint crashes in Buriram, while holding the early lead, and at Circuit of the Americas, while chasing down Francesco Bagnaia for victory.

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Nevertheless, Bezzecchi would currently be trailing Alex Marquez if the Gresini rider had matched the 87 points that put him top of the standings at this stage in 2025.

Instead, the Spaniard has scored just 28 points so far, a drop of 59, the largest on the grid.

Fellow Ducati GP26 rider Francesco Bagnaia is next with a 50-point decline, followed by team-mate and reigning champion Marc Marquez, down 41 points.

Marquez won five races at the start of last year, then crashed out of the US MotoGP.

This season has seen the Spaniard suffer two non-scores – in the Thai GP (technical) and COTA Sprint (crash) – fail to finish on the grand prix rostrum and take only one victory, in the Brazil Sprint.

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Marquez’s points loss is matched by VR46’s Franco Morbidelli, who finished in the top five for all but one of the opening six races last year, but only has a single top ten to his name this year.

By contrast, KTM’s Pedro Acosta has scored almost four-times as many points, from 16 to 60, to hold an early third behind Bezzecchi and Martin in the world championship.

For Honda, Johann Zarco is down 12 points year-on-year, while Joan Mir has dropped seven points, while team-mate Luca Marini is up by three points.

Jack Miller was the leading Yamaha rider after COTA last season, with 19 points, but is yet to score on the new V4. Former world champion Fabio Quartararo has slipped from 16 to six points.

The full 2026 vs 2025 breakdown can be seen below:

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MotoGP riders’ standings after 3 rounds: 2026 vs 2025 RiderYearBikePointsDiff1Alex Marquez2025Ducati87 2Marc Marquez2025Ducati86 3Marco Bezzecchi2026Aprilia81+57 points4Jorge Martin2026Aprilia77N/A5Francesco Bagnaia2025Ducati75 6Pedro Acosta2026KTM60+44 points7Franco Morbidelli2025Ducati55 8Fabio di Giannantonio2026Ducati50+6 points9Marc Marquez2026Ducati45-41 points10Fabio di Giannantonio2025Ducati44 11Raul Fernandez2026Aprilia40+35 points12Ai Ogura2026Aprilia37+12 points13Alex Marquez2026Ducati28-59 points14Francesco Bagnaia2026Ducati25-50 points14Ai Ogura2025Aprilia25 14Johann Zarco2025Honda25 17Marco Bezzecchi2025Aprilia24 18Luca Marini2026Honda23+3 points19Enea Bastianini2026KTM22+6 points20Luca Marini2025Honda20 21Jack Miller2025Yamaha19 22Brad Binder2025KTM19 23Brad Binder2026KTM17-2 points24Enea Bastianini2025KTM16 24Pedro Acosta2025KTM16 24Fabio Quartararo2025Yamaha16 24Franco Morbidelli2026Ducati14-41 points28Fermin Aldeguer*2026Ducati13+10 points28Johann Zarco2026Honda13-12 points30Joan Mir2025Honda10 30Alex Rins2025Yamaha10 32Diogo Moreira**2026Honda9N/A33Fabio Quartararo2026Yamaha6-10 points33Maverick Vinales2025KTM6 35Raul Fernandez2025Aprilia5 36Alex Rins2026Yamaha3-7 points36Joan Mir2026Honda3-7 points36Fermin Aldeguer2025Ducati3 36Augusto Fernandez*2025Yamaha3 40Miguel Oliveira*2025Yamaha2 41Toprak Razgatlioglu**2026Yamaha1N/A41Lorenzo Savadori*2025Yamaha1 43Jack Miller2026Yamaha0-19 points43Maverick Vinales*2026KTM0-6 points43Michele Pirro*2026Ducati0N/A

*Did not start every race.

** 2026 Rookie.

The constructors’ comparison shows that only Aprilia and KTM are in a (substantially) better points position than this time last year.

Ducati made a perfect start to 2025, winning all six races for a maximum 111 constructors’ points, which are awarded for the top rider from each brand in each race.

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But the start of 2026 has swung firmly in Aprilia’s favour, the Noale brand leaping from 33 to 101 points. The ten points ‘lost’ were from third places in the Buriram and Goiania Sprints.

While Aprilia has tripled its points tally, KTM has almost doubled its total from 34 to 65.

Ducati is down by 42 points, Yamaha by 19 points and Honda 8 points:

MotoGP constructors’ standings after 3 rounds: 2026 vs 2025 ManufacturerYearPointsDiff1Ducati2025111 2Aprilia2026101+68 points3Ducati202669-42 points4KTM202665+31 points5Honda202536 6KTM202534 7Aprilia202533 8Honda202628-8 points9Yamaha202528 10Yamaha20269-19 pointsSubscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter