{"id":555937,"date":"2026-03-22T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:26:10","slug":"brazilian-grand-prix-sinkhole-sprint-race-report-goiania-jack-miller-marc-marquez-marco-bezzecchi-pedro-acosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555937\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Grand Prix, sinkhole, sprint race, report, Goiania, Jack Miller, Marc Marquez, Marco Bezzecchi, Pedro Acosta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Marquez was victorious in the first MotoGP race to be held in Brazil in 22 years, Ducati\u2019s reigning world champion winning a thrilling delayed sprint race in Goiania on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Every MotoGP qualifying, practice and race LIVE and ad-break free from lights out to the chequered flag. <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/sports\/sport!motor\/series-motogp!10?marketing=motogp&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkmotorsport-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-mtr-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New to Kayo? Start Your Free Trial Today &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, from third on the grid and arriving in Brazil still underdone after recovering from late-season surgery after winning last year\u2019s title, hunted down surprise pole-sitter Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati) in the closing stages of the 15-lap sprint, capitalising on a late-race mistake by the Italian rider at turn 13 with three laps remaining to take the lead and hold on to win by 0.213 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MORE MOTOGP NEWS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motorsport\/moto-gp\/aussie-stalwarts-road-to-200-motogp-starts-and-the-five-races-that-made-him\/news-story\/866bc9c2722bd49a5c25999560b366a9\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AUSSIE\u2019S MILESTONE <\/a> Miller\u2019s road to 200 MotoGP starts, and the five races that made him<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motorsport\/moto-gp\/hes-a-very-talented-guy-motogp-royalty-backs-young-aussies-second-shot\/news-story\/3f15b1553e05c3ffad0256665fee7f5a\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">MASTER AND THE APPRENTICE <\/a> MotoGP royalty backs young Aussie\u2019s second shot<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Jorge Martin, the 2024 MotoGP world champion who endured an injury-ravaged title defence last season, took his first podium for Aprilia in third place, 3.587secs adrift of Marquez. <\/p>\n<p>Marquez\u2019s sprint win was his 16th in the sport\u2019s short-format races that debuted on the calendar for the 2023 season, tying him with Martin for the most over the past four seasons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn important victory, a super important victory,\u201d Marquez, who missed the final five rounds of 2025 after he fractured his right shoulder in a crash on the opening lap of last October\u2019s Indonesian Grand Prix, said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially because [in the opening round of 2026] in Thailand I was suffering. Here, I feel already a step [forward], but still not riding as I want. But we keep pushing, and we will try tomorrow to fight again with Fabio, who is super fast.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Di Giannantonio bolted from pole to lead by 1.2 seconds after four laps, but Marquez steadily closed him down after pushing past early protagonist Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), halving Di Giannantonio\u2019s margin by lap eight and then capitalising on the Italian\u2019s error with three laps remaining. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s sprint was delayed by over an hour after a sinkhole appeared on the final straight coming out of the final corner, with Goiania hammered by torrential rain in the days leading in to the first race at the circuit named after F1 legend Ayrton Senna since 1989. <\/p>\n<p>Repeat flooding at the circuit required a sizeable clean-up operation to allow the race weekend to go ahead, and Saturday\u2019s delay forced a reshuffle of the race program, Moto2 qualifying pushed to Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Jack Miller, from 18th on the grid, finished last of the 19 riders to see the chequered flag in the sprint, the Yamaha rider finishing 23.807secs behind Marquez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motorsport\/moto-gp\/aussie-stalwarts-road-to-200-motogp-starts-and-the-five-races-that-made-him\/news-story\/866bc9c2722bd49a5c25999560b366a9\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on the weekend of his 200th premier-class start<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>KTM\u2019s Pedro Acosta, who finished ninth, retained the championship lead by two points over Aprilia\u2019s Marco Bezzecchi, who has won the past three full-distance Grands Prix and finished fourth behind teammate Martin in Saturday\u2019s sprint. <\/p>\n<p>The 31-lap Brazilian Grand Prix, round two of MotoGP\u2019s 22-round 2026 season, will take place at 5am (AEDT) on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez was victorious in the first MotoGP race to be held in Brazil in 22 years, Ducati\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[2620,2095,1724,64,63,689,11308,158017,49522,14211,274587,101334,3555,5744,274588,4280,16268,806,805,803,804,677,33064,10734,24805,101316,274589,21786,49513,270005,274586,274591,11298,1124,2812,85,23504,3725,274590,2753,3561],"class_list":["post-555937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-america","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brazil","tag-brazilian-grand","tag-chequered-flag","tag-grands-prix","tag-injury-ravaged-title-defence","tag-italian-rider","tag-jack-miller","tag-jorge-martin","tag-late-race-mistake","tag-marc-marquez","tag-matt-clayton","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-oceania","tag-opening-round","tag-pedro-acosta","tag-peter-malinauskas","tag-premier-class-start","tag-race-program","tag-race-weekend","tag-reigning-world-champion","tag-royalty-backs-young","tag-short-format-races","tag-sizeable-clean-up-operation","tag-south-america","tag-south-australia","tag-south-eastern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sprint-win","tag-thailand","tag-track-repairs","tag-world-champion","tag-yamaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}