{"id":568215,"date":"2026-03-27T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:22:08","slug":"2026-us-motogp-live-acosta-leads-fp1-after-fast-crash-for-marc-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/568215\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 US MotoGP LIVE: Acosta leads FP1 after fast crash for Marc Marquez"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEY MOMENTSPedro Acosta fastest in red-flagged FP1Marc Marquez has terrifying crashPractice resumes at 8pm GMTMarco Bezzecchi and Aprilia lead the championshipMichelin’s standard tyre casing returns at COTA<\/p>\n

The 2026 MotoGP season continues with round three at the United States Grand Prix, taking place at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aprilia and Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> arrive in America off the back of another dominant victory last time out in Brazil, with the latter leading the riders’ standings ahead of team-mate Jorge Martin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aprilia and Bezzecchi have won the last four consecutive grands prix, with the Italian rider just three laps away from beating the all-time laps led record currently held by Jorge Lorenzo set in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jorge Martin will be looking to build on his first podium with Aprilia in Brazil, as he continues to grow in confidence on the RS-GP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All eyes will be on Marc Marquez<\/a> and Ducati to try to quash Aprilia’s dominance, with the seven-time world champion returning to one of his strongest circuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marquez has won seven times at COTA in his MotoGP career, and was close to an eighth last year before he crashed out of the lead. Ducati has had a tough start to the 2026 season, but a return to the standard Michelin rear tyre construction is set to benefit the Italian marque.\u00a0<\/p>\n

KTM looks set for a tough weekend, with Pedro Acosta admitting after Brazil that the RC16 is struggling for top speed right now, and is wary of how that will impact his performance at COTA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tech3 KTM’s Maverick Vinales may also not see out the US Grand Prix weekend as he continues to battle the effects of the left shoulder injury he suffered in a crash in Germany last July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2026 Unites States MotoGP Friday schedule<\/p>\n

FP1 – 3:45pm-4:30pm GMT<\/p>\n

Practice – 8pm-9pm GMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEY MOMENTSPedro Acosta fastest in red-flagged FP1Marc Marquez has terrifying crashPractice resumes at 8pm GMTMarco Bezzecchi and Aprilia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-568215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568215","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=568215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}