{"id":706189,"date":"2026-05-31T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:38:13","slug":"motogp-leader-bezzecchi-wins-italian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706189\/","title":{"rendered":"MotoGP leader Bezzecchi wins Italian Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

MotoGP championship leader Marco Bezzecchi fought through to beat Aprilia team-mate Jorge Martin and win the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello.<\/p>\n

Bezzecchi won the opening three rounds of the year and returned to the top step in race seven to open up a 17-point lead over Martin in the standings.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old celebrated at the finish with fellow Italian and Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n

Manufacturer Aprilia had never won their home race in the premier class but took an emotional one-two finish as Italian bikes dominated.<\/p>\n

Spanish rider Martin, the 2024 championship winner, set a MotoGP speed record on Friday when his Aprilia clocked 229mph.<\/p>\n

Ducati were third on Sunday with two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia.<\/p>\n

Bagnaia was able to pass Bezzecchi and make a run for victory midway through the race, but Bezzecchi fought back to regain the lead.<\/p>\n

Reigning champion Marc Marquez returned after surgery on his arm and foot and came home seventh for his first finish since March.<\/p>\n

The Spanish MotoGP legend is 102 points behind Bezzecchi in the standings.<\/p>\n

His brother, Alex Marquez, and Johann Zarco both missed the Mugello race after heavy crashes at the Catalan GP two weeks ago.<\/a><\/p>\n

British rider Cal Crutchlow stood in for the injured Zarco in his first race since 2023, but the 40-year-old veteran had to retire midway through for LCR Honda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MotoGP championship leader Marco Bezzecchi fought through to beat Aprilia team-mate Jorge Martin and win the Italian Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-706189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}